San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition]
Willie Nelson & Ray Price - CD
- Artist: Willie Nelson & Ray Price
- Format: CD
- Year: 2003
- UPC: 696998926424
- Item Number: LEG92642
- Release date: 05/15/2011
- 1. San Antonio Rose
- 2. I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
- 3. I Fall to Pieces
- 4. Crazy Arms
- 5. Release Me
- 6. Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
- 7. This Cold War With You
- 8. Funny How Time Slips Away
- 9. Night Life
- 10. Deep Water
- 11. Faded Love
- 12. Just Call Me Lonesome [#][*]
- 13. My Life's Been a Pleasure [#][*]
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San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition] by Willie Nelson & Ray Price on CD
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, All Music Guide
- Artist: Willie Nelson & Ray Price
- Format: CD
- Year: 2003
- UPC: 696998926424
- Item Number: LEG92642
- Release date: 05/15/2011
- Label: Sony Music Distribution
- Genre: Country
- Style: Outlaw Country, Progressive Country, Traditional Country
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