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Stafford concert to show strings still please Ray Price
By ANDREW DANSBY
Among the numerous things purists thought would kill country music --
electric bass, strings, hair gel, American Idol -- strings remain the
least threatening. They can certainly be used poorly, especially today.
But theyve also created some somber masterpieces.
Country legend Ray Price was a pioneer in bringing strings to
Nashville. Tonight hes bringing them to town. Hell perform at the
Stafford Centre, backed by the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra. Price will
perform some of his favorites, though he promises a surprise later in
the set.
Initially a honky-tonk singer, the Perryville-born Price met some
resistance when he started using strings in the 1960s. He says the late
Buck Owens put an ad in Billboard magazine shortly afterward, claiming
Owens would never play any music other than pure country. Of course,
the next thing he did was record Little Rock, which was a rock n roll
song, Price says. There was a strong backlash, but it worked out
fine. The guys who were against it bad, they were the guys who used
them. And they were guys who made money off of songs with strings.
Price certainly did. His take on Kris Kristoffersons For the Good
Times was one of the rare country songs to cross over onto the pop
charts, a No. 11 hit in 1970. Strings are about my favorite thing, he
says. They make a song as pretty as can be done.
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