Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Merle Haggard calls Ray Price 'the first outlaw'

FILE - In this March 10, 2007 file photo, Ray Price performs at the Aladdin Theater for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas. Price, one of country music's most popular and influential singers and bandleaders who had more than 100 hits and was one of the last living connections to Hank Williams, died Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. He was 87. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Merle Haggard can still remember the first time he heard Ray Price's voice come out of the radio, fronting Lefty Frizzell's band on "If You're Ever Lonely Darling" in 1951. And the memory of hearing "I'll Be There" for the first time in 1954 still makes him break out into song.








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