For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price

For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
Studio album by
Willie Nelson
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2016
StudioOcean Way, Hollywood
Genre
Length40:25
LabelLegacy Recordings
ProducerFred Foster
Willie Nelson chronology
Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
(2016) 		For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
(2016) 		God's Problem Child
(2017)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
PopMatters7/10[2]
Rolling Stone Germany[3]

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.[4]

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.[5][6] The second week it sold 2,600 copies.[7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Heartaches by the Number" (featuring The Time Jumpers)Harlan Howard3:05
2."I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" (featuring the Time Jumpers)Rusty Gabbard, Ray Price2:10
3."Faded Love"Bob Wills, Johnny Lee Wills5:24
4."It Always Will Be"Willie Nelson3:34
5."City Lights" (featuring the Time Jumpers)Bill Anderson2:57
6."Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me" (featuring the Time Jumpers)Hank Cochran2:34
7."Make the World Go Away"Hank Cochran3:03
8."I'm Still Not Over You"Willie Nelson4:31
9."Night Life"Walt Breeland, Paul Buslirk, Willie Nelson3:19
10."Crazy Arms" (featuring the Time Jumpers)Ralph Mooney, Charles Seals2:44
11."Invitation to the Blues" (featuring the Time Jumpers)Roger Miller2:47
12."For the Good Times"Kris Kristofferson4:17

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] 128
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[9] 182
US Billboard 200[10] 84
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[11] 5

References

  1. ^ For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Willie Nelson: For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price, PopMatters". October 31, 2016.
  3. ^ "Willie Nelson: For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price". November 17, 2016.
  4. ^ Leahey, Andrew (July 27, 2016). "Willie Nelson to Release Ray Price Tribute Album". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media LLC. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Bjorke, Matt (September 27, 2016). "Country Album Sales Chart: September 22, 2016". Roughstock. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  6. ^ "Billboard 200". Billboard. October 8, 2016.
  7. ^ Bjorke, Matt (October 5, 2016). "Top 10 Country Albums Sales Chart: October 3, 2016". Roughstock. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  8. ^ "Willie Nelson ARIA Chart history (albums) to May 2025". ARIA. Retrieved June 8, 2025 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  9. ^ "Ultratop.be – Willie Nelson – For the Good Times - A Tribute to Ray Price" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
  10. ^ "Willie Nelson Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  11. ^ "Willie Nelson Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.