Sweet Memories: The Music Of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys Vince Gill & Paul Franklin

• 1 One More Time 03:07
• 2 I'd Fight The World 03:02
• 3 You Wouldn't Know Love 03:49
• 4 Walkin’ Slow (And Thinking ‘Bout Her) 02:34
• 5 The Same Two Lips 03:39
• 6 Weary Blues From Waitin' 04:26
• 7 Kissing Your Picture (Is So Cold) 03:27
• 8 Sweet Memories 04:33
• 9 Danny Boy 05:11
• 10 Your Old Love Letters 02:51
• 11 Healing Hands Of Time 02:56
• Total Runtime 39:35

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Vince Gill & Paul Franklin team up for a special tribute to Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys. From the foreword from country icon Bill Anderson, "They have taken their admiration for Ray Price to the next level. the students honoring the teacher with one of the finest true-country tributes of all time. It's more than a tribute, though. it's Vince's and Paul's way of saying `thank you' to one of the masters who helped define the genre while influencing them greatly."

“When we originally started thinking about doing this record, we were going to do half and half, focusing on two different artists like we did with Bakersfield, recording songs of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard,” shares Gill. "But we got to liking so many of Ray's songs, that it became 'Let's do all Ray,' and ‘Well, Okay!’”

Franklin adds, “We had such a great time doing Bakersfield. It felt good introducing that music to a new generation. This time, it was a no-brainer to pick Ray Price. Once we locked in on Ray, we started looking through the sheer volume of his material. We looked for obscure songs, ones even Ray's fans might not know as well.”

“We kind of shopped for the unfamiliar. Eddie Stubbs [the former Grand Ole Opry announcer, WSM disc jockey and music scholar] was part of this process, although he didn't know it at the time,” continues the “One More Last Chance" hit-maker. “I'd listen to him at night and call him up and say, 'Play something for me I've never heard before.' He’d often play something that knocked me out, and I'd take note of all the songs. I had maybe 30 different ones for Paul to listen to—some so outside the box that I didn't know them, and Paul didn't either.”

Of the stellar musicians on the record, including electric guitarist Tom Bukovac and fiddle player Stuart Duncan, Gill notes, “There were some unbelievably gifted musicians who were such a part of those original records. We were drawn to them probably as much as we were drawn to Ray.”

“I’m excited this music is getting out there in a way we feel brings new life and new ideas to it,” adds Franklin. “And hopefully will expose a younger generation to Ray’s music.”

"When Vince Gill and Paul Franklin reunited to cut a sequel to their acclaimed 2013 album, Bakersfield, the intention was to mirror that record's construction by dividing it equally between two celebrated artists. As they gathered songs for the album, they realized that one artist had a deep songbook filled with underappreciated gems ripe for discovery: the Texas legend Ray Price. A revolutionary figure in 20th century country music -- he created the 4/4 shuffle beat that became synonymous with post-war country -- Price was a fixture on the charts from 1952 through 1982, cutting such enduring standards as "Crazy Arms," "For the Good Times," "Night Life," and "Heartaches By the Number." None of those songs are here. Gill and Franklin dig deep into Price's catalog -- the only Top Ten single of his that they cover is the folk standard "Danny Boy," which isn't generally associated with him -- and then set about to capture the spirit of his backing band the Cherokee Cowboys. That's not the same thing as a period re-creation. Although they play the Ray Price beat and show an equal facility with both barroom ballads and honky tonk two-steps, the duo aren't replicating recordings, they're merely working in a milieu. The result is warm, nuanced, and nourishing -- a record that feels old-fashioned because it focuses on instrumental interplay. Working with many musicians who played in the Cherokee Cowboys, the duo keeps things lively and relaxed, letting their guests stretch out in the groove. By emphasizing interaction, Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys winds up as an unusually alive tribute album: it shows how old music can still sound fresh in modern contexts." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Tom Bukovac, electric guitar
Dennis Crouch, bass
Stuart Duncan, fiddle
Steve Gibson, electric guitar
John Jarvis, piano
Greg Morrow, drums
Michael Rhodes, electric bass
Jerry Roe, drums
Derek Wells, electric guitar
Wendy Moten, harmony vocals
Andrea Zonn, harmony vocals

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