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Interview Date: July 8, 2011 @11am EDT

Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys

I don’t know where to begin, or how to explain the gravity and cultural significance of my next guest. Ray Price is a Country honky-tonk legend who, by all accounts, kept the Hard Country torch alive as the rest of the world was turning its back and jumping on the Rock ’n ’Roll bandwagon.1 He is a man whose “music” and “message”, I would argue, is more relevant today than any other time in history. To listen to him is to listen to over a hundred years of American history all boiled down into one well crafted tune; a man so important that Hank Williams

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S01 Ep06 – (1 of 3) Seeing Ray Price as a Human Being.

S01 Ep06 - (1 of 3) - Seeing Ray Price as a Human Being

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