Willie Nelson pays tribute to collaborator and close friend Ray Price on an album scheduled for September release.
For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price features 12 covers of Price classics, including Crazy Arms, I'm Still Not Over You, Invitation to the Blues and City Lights and, of course, the title track.
Nelson recorded the albums with producer Fred Foster and arranger Bergen White, who worked on Price’s last album, which was recorded at Nashville’s Ocean Way Studios. Nelson duly returned to that iconic studio to record For the Good Times.
In 1960, shortly after Nelson moved to Nashville, Price used a Nelson composition called Night Life as the opening music for his concerts. The professional relationship thus began, and the pair released three albums together between 1980 and 2007, including Last of the Breed, featuring the late Merle Haggard.
Rolling Stone declared that Ray Price had "revolutionized the genre" when the music magazine announced the passing of the 87-year old music legend at home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas in December 2013. Price had endured a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price is set for release on Sept. 16.
Ray Price pictured in 2010
