Willie Nelson & Ray Price - San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition]
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Album Details: San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition]
- Release Date:
- 06/24/2003
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 696998926424
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Tour de force return to honky tonk
, July 21, 2003When F. Scott Fitzgerald said "there are no second acts in American lives," he clearly didn
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Usually projects like this one are a shambles. In 1980 Willie Nelson was a superstar and Ray Price was packing concert halls but not selling records. In 1961 Nelson was Price's bass player and in the band that recorded Price's smash San Antonio Rose album. This date is a kind of reprise of Price as king of the honky tonk singers -- something he willfully abandoned in the mid-'60s. Recorded in the same studio they'd used 19 years earlier, Nelson and his Family band augmented their sound with Johnny Gimble playing that lonesome fiddle that had become a Price trademark in the same way it was Bob Wills'. In addition, Buddy Emmons, who was also a former Price employee, played steel, and Blondie Calderon, who was Price's bandleader, plays piano and vibraharp here. The program is pure Price, though many of these tunes were present in Nelson's live shows of the era and some remain so. Beginning with the title track and slipping into Price's gorgeous "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)," and of course into "I Fall to Pieces," Hank Cochran, and Harlan Howard, with Price's smooth baritone and Nelson's thin reedy tenor, it's a match made in heaven. Price proves here that he could still be a honky tonk singer when he wanted to be. Other country classics on the set include Floyd Tillman's "This Cold War With You" and Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" (which Price had cut a number of times pre- and post-pop). "Crazy Arms," which is Price's trademark song, is begun by Nelson, but Price's presence on the first chorus takes the spotlight, and in the verse, it's no secret why it's his vocal signature on the tune. As if that weren't enough, they follow it with "Release Me," another Price classic from yesteryear and still a gauge for how well any country singer performs. There's also Fred Rose's "Deep Water," Bob Wills' "Faded Love," and a few unreleased bonus tracks from the session, including Rex Griffin's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Jesse Ashlock's "My Life's Been a Pleasure." The sound, as it is on the rest of the releases in this series -- To Lefty From Willie, Willie and Family Live, and Honeysuckle Rose -- is pristine, full of warmth and depth. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in postrock roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid'70s, Nelson spent the '60s writing songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ("Night Life"), Pats...Full Willie Nelson & Ray Price Biography
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