Customer Reviews

Run That By Me One More Time

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Ever since the delightful "San Antonio Rose" of 1980, I've been hoping these guys would get back together in the Studio.

Well, this was worth the wait and then some!!!

Two Masters Of The Craft here on this one, just signing together in harmony,does it get any better than this?

Fair warning - they will be bringing a tear to your eye on just about every song. Hey, if you don't tear up at "I'm Still Not Over You", check your pulse because you might be dead...

Every song a winner, and let's hope we don't have to wait another 20-plus years for a third duet from Willie and Ray. They are perfect together, and this one is quite honestly an instant "Classic".

Don't get this expecting something on the same level as "San Antonio Rose." This is fantastic music, but not nearly as good as their first offering.

Willie is in fantastic voice here. He definately redeems himself after "Beer For My Horses."

Ray Price is in excellent voice.

This is an excellent swing record, and ten times better than the best stuff coming out of Nashville these days. But, But, But, please don't get this hoping for something as good as "San Antonio Rose."

Willie's voice hasn't changed a bit, and Ray is singing better than he ever has.

If you're a fan of "good" country music then pick up this album. Buy this cd and then call every country music radio station in your area and surrounding areas and request some music from this record. It was recently nominated for a Grammy and these two guys deserve some airplay on the radio. Let's get people knowing about this album.

I give it five stars because there isn't a bad song on it.

Sad, sweet, and just beautiful songs. Wonderful performances by both singers. It's so good to hear them together again and this time with simple arrangements. May be my best of 2003. Music that almost glows.

I was ancious to pick up this CD because I have San Antonio Rose and am a huge fan of that album. Well this album didn't dissapoint. Ray and Willie both have amazing vocal performances on this album and the song selection is awesome. Thanks to them both for keeping it real country. Amazing fiddle playing on this album would make Bob Wills proud. Pick up "Run that by me one more time" ASAP you won't be dissapointed! Highlights are the title track and I'm Still Not Over You!

When 2 of the best country singers get together you expect a good cd and thats what you get here. Both Willie and Ray Price still can sing terrific and they go together very well. This is a pure country album without the over production thats mars a lot of country music today. "I've just destroyed the world", "Something to think about" are terrific songs. Willie is at his best when he sings and plays his guitar(which he could have done more of) instead of trying to be an entertainer. All in all a very solid effort by 2 old pros.

If this isn't a great album, it's something just as worthy: a good, solid, sturdy one. Two pros do what they do best, Texas honkytonk shuffles, sad songs of faded love, and stripped-down Western swing. Willie Nelson and Ray Price are the masters of this variety of grown-up music. Price's presence is a particular treat. He records less often than Nelson does, and if he isn't as wildly experimental, he is a dependable exponent of a nearly lost kind of country music. You can't fake these very fine, unsparing songs, in which no falsehood or sentimentality is to be discerned. You have to have lived these stories, and no young, callow hunk with a big cowboy hat and an obnoxiously loud, soulless band could even try. And is there a truer song -- in any genre -- than the late Floyd Tillman's "This Cold War with You"?

Wow, a five-star review. Well, yes, it is, and with good reason. Willie Nelson, an artist who, like many, has given himself over to the monster otherwise known as MOR, has created an album here that is a throwback to a time when records were simple affairs, just a few guys and their instruments belting out tunes for everyone to enjoy.
Indeed, it's the simplicity of this record that allows the pure joy of the work to shine. This is clearly the kind of work that the artists create from sheer love of country music, rather than any cultural or economic imperative (Willie's tax problems aside).
Ray Price shines on this album as well, complementing his good friend's wandering lyrical melodies with his own rocksteady baritone stylings. To use a cliche (if I may), theirs is a vocal match made in heaven, or at least in the honkytonks of Texas. Each song is a meditation on life, loss, love and music; each tune weaves its own individual path through the album, creating a strong theme throughout the piece.
Don't expect fancy musicianship or throaty theatrics from this album, but do expect an album that is both mature and vital, brimming with life yet inexorably contemplative.

Willie and Ray sound incredible together. This record goes to show that some voices don't grow old but just mellow and develop different personalities.