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Happy Birthday Ray Price!

January 12th 2009 in Americana, Articles, Bluegrass, Country Music, Legends, News

Cybergrass has a nice post on the Grammy nominated soul-bluegrass (soul-grass?) band The Steeldrivers.
As part of a settlement of a legal battle Mother Maybelle Carter’s 1928 Gibson L-5 acoustic guitar, along with Bill Monroe’s F-5 mandolin and two of Johnny Cash’s guitars will continue to be displayed in the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Kingport Times News)
Happy Birthday to Country Music Hall of Fame Member, Texas Country Music Hall of Fame Member, and Grammy Award Winner Ray Price. Born Noble Ray Price in Perryville, Texas, on January 12, 1926, the country music will be honored at a reception from 11am until 1pm on his 83rd birthday, Monday, January 12. (via stillisstillmoving.com)

Ray Price Willie Nelson Merle Haggard – Night Life

Hank III in San Francisco

Hank Williams III will appear at the Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, San Francisco on Sat, Feb 28, 2009. See you there!

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