For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price

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For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2016
Studio Ocean Way, Hollywood
Genre
Length40:25
Label Legacy Recordings
Producer Fred 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 Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
PopMatters 7/10 [2]
Rolling Stone GermanyStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [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]

Contents

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 Howard 3:05
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 Anderson 2:57
6."Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me" (featuring the Time Jumpers) Hank Cochran 2:34
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 Miller 2:47
12."For the Good Times" Kris Kristofferson 4:17

Personnel

Charts

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

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