Ray Price News

Legendary country music artist Ray Price will receive an honorary doctorate from Texas A&M University-Commerce on Dec.

Bill Anderson will discuss his unprecedented songwriting career Saturday afternoon at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he'll field questions from the Hall's Michael Gray as the subject of the latest edition in the "Poets and Prophets - Legendary Country Songwriters" series.

As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music.

Prolific songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson will be honored on December 12 as part of the Museum's quarterly programming series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters.

Have a load coming out of Dallas in the middle of next month? Don't be surprised it shows up a bit late.

By SHIRLEY JINKINS Roy and Ray are a pair of undisputed classics, both dating back to the days when country band members dressed alike and wore ties.

A pair of country legends Ray Price and Roy Clark have about 100 years' worth of music experience between them.

As fine a pair of traditional country performers as you're likely to find, Ray Price and Roy Clark have about 100 years' worth of experience between them.

With Cross Canadian Ragweed and Ray Price at John T. Floore Country Store and Marty Stuart at the Go Rodeo Roundup, this is a weekend perfect for those with wide-ranging tastes.

If you're in the mood for a short road trip this week, here are a few suggestions.

"Some Of Their Material Is Fine..." In August 1964, with an epidemic of Beatlemania sweeping the nation, COUNTRY SONG ROUNDUP asked 13 of Nashville's biggest hit-makers what they thought about the Beatles.

Eighty-three and counting, the Cherokee Cowboy remains one of the last living links to the first wave of honky-tonk. Many a hillbilly hopeful has heard the clack of his bootheels on the streets of Lower Broad in the epochal ba-boom-ba-boom-ba-boom-ba-boom walking bassline that gives 1956's 'Crazy Arms' its shuffling gait.

Struggling Newport have strengthened their back row department with the signing of New Zealander Omar Suleiman.

Hard rock stalwarts Skid Row play Club Madrid at Sunset Station on Nov. 6. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show, and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Sunset Station Boarding Pass Rewards Center, 1301 W. Sunset Road.

Ray Price has covered -- and kicked up -- as much musical turf as any country singer of the postwar era.

The hit new show Opry Country Classics presented by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store returns this fall for an eight-week run beginning Thurs., Sept.

The hit new show Opry Country Classics presented by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store returns this fall for an eight-week run beginning Thurs., Sept.

Mud Joe got an oil man's send-off this week. When I walked into the chapel to say "goodbye" I didn't hear the typical funeral music.

A NEW guide to easy access walking locations across the Vale has been launched by Valeways, supported by Health Challenge Vale.

John Doe and the Sadies perform Saturday in Hawkins Amphitheater. The best Reno area concerts Veteran musician John Doe said he's looking forward to performing outdoors when he and The Sadies bring classic country songs to Reno's Hawkins Amphitheater on Saturday .