Maps of Music

For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price (2016)

Where the lyrics of For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price take you, and where it was really made.

The studio where Willie Nelson made this tribute is also where Ray Price recorded his final album, Beauty Is.

Key places

Where the tribute was recorded (2016)

Recording site The Music Grinder (Hollywood) — Nelson recorded the twelve-track album at Ocean Way Studios, the same place where Price made his final album, Beauty Is. The pin shows the city-level location, not the building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price, the 65th solo studio album by Willie Nelson
• Released in September 2016
• Twelve cover versions of songs recorded by Ray Price
• Price died in 2013
• Honky Tonk and Countrypolitan styles
• Engineered by Fred Foster and Bergen White

Background

• Nelson was a former member of Price's Cherokee Cowboys
• Nelson was also a friend of Price
• Price recorded his final album, Beauty Is, at Ocean Way Studios
• Nelson recorded this tribute at the same studio

Recording

• The twelve-track album was recorded at Ocean Way Studios
• Vince Gill appears on six tracks
• The Time Jumpers appear on six tracks
• Legacy Recordings released the album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born Willie Hugh Nelson on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas.
• Wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band, Bohemian Polka, as a guitarist at age nine.
• Attended Baylor University for two years before dropping out to pursue music.
• Moved to Nashville in 1960 and joined Ray Price's band as a bassist.

Career

• Songs such as "Crazy" (Patsy Cline), "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Pretty Paper" became hits for other artists.
• Debut album ...And Then I Wrote was released in 1962; joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965.
• Helped lead the outlaw country movement after moving to Austin, Texas in 1972.
• Red Headed Stranger (1975) was a critically acclaimed concept album; the single "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" became his first number one hit.
• Co-founded Farm Aid in 1985 with Neil Young and John Mellencamp.
• Acted in over 30 films, including The Electric Horseman (1979).
• Received a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance for "Ride Me Back Home" (2019).
• Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in September 2016 on Legacy Recordings as Nelson's 65th solo studio album
• Twelve tracks of songs that Ray Price recorded, with Price dead since 2013
• Six of the twelve tracks feature The Time Jumpers, the band behind the Heartaches by the Number track
• Vince Gill appears on six tracks
• Engineers Fred Foster and Bergen White handled the recording
• Track lengths run from 2:10 for I'll Be There to 5:24 for Faded Love
• Honky Tonk and Countrypolitan styles run through the album

Records

• Debuted at No. 5 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart
• Debuted at No. 84 on the Billboard 200
• Sold 7,000 copies in its first week
• Sold 2,600 copies in its second week

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album opens with Heartaches by the Number, written by Harlan Howard.
• Faded Love, credited to Bob Wills and Johnny Lee Wills, is the longest track at 5:24.
• Two songs, It Always Will Be and I'm Still Not Over You, are credited to Nelson alone.
• The album closes with For the Good Times, written by Kris Kristofferson.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Maps of Ages ↗ (mapsofages.com)

Privacy · Contact