For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price is the 65th solo studio album by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, released on September 19, 2016. The album features cover versions of songs recorded by Ray Price, who had died in 2013. Nelson, a former member of Price's Cherokee Cowboys and friend, recorded the twelve-track album at Ocean Way Studios, where Price had recorded his final album, Beauty Is. Engineered by Fred Foster and Bergen White, the album features Vince Gill on six tracks. The content spans Honky Tonk and Countrypolitan.
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, and No. 84 on Billboard 200, selling 7,000 copies in its first week. The second week it sold 2,600 copies.Personnel
- Brad Albin – upright bass
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- James Button – oboe
- Ellen Dockery – background vocals
- Larry Franklin – fiddle
- Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
- Steve Gibson – electric guitar
- Vince Gill – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
- Carl Gorodetzky – string arrangements
- John Hobbs – piano
- Jim Horn – flute, saxophone
- Jon Mark Ivey – background vocals
- Jack Jezzro – bass guitar
- Jordan Lehning – background vocals
- Shane McConnell – background vocals
- Charlie McCoy – vibraphone
- The Nashville String Machine – strings
- Willie Nelson – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
- Larry Paxton – bass guitar
- Mickey Raphael – harmonica
- Andy Reiss – electric guitar
- Kenny Sears – fiddle
- Lisa Silver – background vocals
- Kira Small – background vocals
- Joe Spivey – fiddle
- Jeff Taylor – accordion, piano
- Billy Thomas – drums
- Bergen White – conductor, background vocals
- John Willis – acoustic guitar