Night Life

A truly great country voice, Price was the bridge between the rudiments of Hank Williams and the countrypolitan sound of Billy Sherrill and the Seventies. Sherrill’s biggest artist, George Jones, came up at the same time as Price, and usually overshadows him. Don’t make that mistake! Night Life is as ghostly as The Flamingos as it is soulful like Hank. Price had a beefy, emotional tenor and took up space like an olde tyme movie star: all feelings made clear. His band goes hard on pedal steel and fiddle, with a few bursts from the string section. His sadness is more prison than barroom—real, down-through-his-boots loneliness and a longing that feels older than his last breakup.