Ray Price - Roy Acuff

[Steve Gardner]

For those of you who like the Ray Price Essentials CD I'd recommend going
out and getting the Roy Acuff Essentials CD.  They aren't exactly the same,
Roy is a little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk when compared to
Ray Price.  I seem to think though that if you like one, you'll like the
other.  I, at least, do.

steve

Re: Ray Price - Roy Acuff

[Don Yates]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Steve Gardner wrote:

 For those of you who like the Ray Price Essentials CD I'd recommend going
 out and getting the Roy Acuff Essentials CD.  They aren't exactly the same,
 Roy is a little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk when compared to
 Ray Price.  I seem to think though that if you like one, you'll like the
 other.  I, at least, do.

"A little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk"?  How about a *lot*
more oldtime and a *lot* less honky tonk.  There ain't a lot of
similarities between the two, near as I can tell.  I'd recommend Acuff to
folks who were checkin' out the roots of Hank Williams though -- Acuff was
one of his biggest singin' influences.--don

RE: Ray Price - Roy Acuff

[Jon Weisberger]

Don says:

There ain't a lot of similarities between the two, near as I can tell.

Generally true, though there's a similarity of vocal approach - in the high
end of their ranges, open-throated, both liked to hold high notes with a
sort of wail - that's wotrth noting.

Jon Weisberger  Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/

Re: Ray Price - Roy Acuff

[stuart]

Don Yates wrote:

 On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Steve Gardner wrote:

  For those of you who like the Ray Price Essentials CD I'd recommend going
  out and getting the Roy Acuff Essentials CD.  They aren't exactly the same,
  Roy is a little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk when compared to
  Ray Price.  I seem to think though that if you like one, you'll like the
  other.  I, at least, do.

 "A little more oldtime and a little less honky tonk"?  How about a *lot*
 more oldtime and a *lot* less honky tonk.  There ain't a lot of
 similarities between the two, near as I can tell.  I'd recommend Acuff to
 folks who were checkin' out the roots of Hank Williams though -- Acuff was
 one of his biggest singin' influences.--don

Well I'm not sure *lots* is the right level of difference.  Sure different, but a
lot of similarities too, particularlly in voice.  Whiskey and Blood on the
Highway comes to mind, or Night Train to Memphis. But I was trying to remember
this novelty nonsense song he did, I would guess in the 40s, with the line
"What's the use of counting like Caesar when Caesar is dead"  Help me out here
somebody.  And where can I find it?

Stuart
who's gonna start looking for that essentials disc