Ray Price Cherokee Cowboys Live 1962 Concert

[@davidgottlieb531]

Absolutely brilliant! To hear Paycheck singing here early in his career is priceless as well as hearing all the other guys too!

[@DiannGliem]

Paycheck was so talented!

[@patcoleman8443]

Love Love Love !!!! and the first one Donny Young (Johnny Paycheck) !! COUNTRY !!!! love it all ... thanks for posting ~~~~ WHAT A FANTASTIC GROUP !!!!

[@swellcat66]

Well, this is Priceless. So good.

[@colbyhelms]

Excellent drumming on Caravan sir! I’m 19 years old and Ray Price and y’all’s whole band are Honky Tonk Heroes!

[@raphaelbernard7954]

I find that Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys and Faron Young have that wonderful driving bass that really makes their recordings from this period 50's early 60's so outstanding. I believe this sound makes Ray and Faron innovators that have yet to be appeciated.

[@IRONMIKE772]

I believe Willie Nelson played bass for a bit with the Cherokee cowboys. Ray price and Faron are two of the best in country music. It’s sad to see what it has turned into these days.

[@IRONMIKE772]

Correction Willie played guitar and Johnny Paycheck played bass.

[@Death2Weebs]

1940, Abilene tx

[@CARDINAL701]

You and all the fabulous players in this band have a permanent place in musical history. You were inn ovators and pioneers. All steel guitar players love everything Ray did in this era, mainly because of that dude that played steel in the band....can't recall his name now....Buddy something...(hahahaha)

[@jankurtis4580]

CARDINAL701 Steele player was Buddy Emmons. Drummer was Jan Kurtis. Bass was Johnny Paycheck. Guitar was Pete Wade. Fiddle was Shorty Lavender. Great Band for sure🎼

[@pollycannon1916]

Country when Country was "Country"!!! great music

[@garylee7568]

Hello from Baketsfield and thanks so much for posting this. Jan you are a truly gifted artist and one of the few remaining knowledgable links to this wonderful era. You lived it. God Bless You sir.

[@johnnystricklin1985]

That is country music.Great singer and band.

[@mosrite60]

All star band. All the musicians had great solo careers What about Buddy Emmons on pedal steel. How great was he. Buddy on fiddle, Paycheck, wow, these were the innovators as the statement above. Remember folks, this was also the start era of the great "Bakersfield sound" A lot of competition. Ray survived for 6 decades. This music may always remembered as golden era of country. mos60

[@davidgottlieb531]

As always thanks for you insightful comments.

[@davidkellymitchell4747]

That's so cool Jan! All you guys are musical legends now. I recorded Ray Price a few times at my studio in Tyler, Tx. as well as Johnny Bush. Ya'll guys are my heros! My kind of music.

[@davenicks8370]

What a great band. Thanks so much for sharing this piece of Country Music history.

[@TiredandSleepy]

Thank you so much for posting this fantastic video. The old photos are complete gems. There will never be another Ray Price. God bless you Jan.

[@cowtownfiesta]

Gr8 music, Gr8 photos! Love that one at 16:26!

[@paulettesnow6034]

my dad and grandmother saw this show and were very pleased great show thanks,kat

[@lynnglidewell7367]

Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, all owed a debt to Ray Price, for giving them a job when they needed one.

[@McAlmanac]

Absolutely magnificent.

[@2packs4sure]

Mr.Kurtis i want to thank you so much for this but ESPECIALLY for the great recording of E.T. in Seattle from 65'. When i discovered that years ago it was like a miracle. E.T. LIVE and in top form, clean bright recording. Thanks for that!

[@charlotteprice7820]

AND PETE WADE, A WONDERFUL GUITAR PICKER FROM VA.

[@CARDINAL701]

An incredible group of innovative musicians that all went on to do amazing things. It all started here. This is priceless, thanks for posting it. The Big E baby!!!!

[@buddyjames1948]

Thanks Jan, I enjoyed the show and the memories. I may have seen you at John T Floors store in Helotes, Texas around 1974. I was playing fiddle for Dale Kieth and the star lite ramblers. I'm old and don't remember dates very well anymore. LOL Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.

[@virginiaallison7110]

TY so very much for this post. I love Ray Price Music. I found the Night Life 33 Album way back in the late, I guess 60's and I loved it. I was Rock and Roll but I loved Ray's songs and singing.

[@Gibson6by4]

A wonderful sample of a memorable era! Many thanks for the posting.

[@MrGm9018]

I never knew Shorty Lavender was with Ray. He booked for us when I was managing George Jones and died during that time.

[@ccutsforth]

Great find. Incredible moment in CW history.

[@skipper2242]

WONDERFUL!! Thanks for sharing this.

[@rockymountainrose8189]

So beautiful. Thanks for the great music!!!

[@craftydreams122]

Thanks SO MUCH for putting this together, Jan! Ray has always been a family favorite, for my Grandad, My father, and for me, as well! I Still cover "For The Good Times" in my live shows, and it always fills the dance floor!

[@bobozard1105]

THE CHEROKEE COWBOYS IS LIKE A WHO'S WHO OFCOUNTRY MUSICANS AND SINGERS

[@annbyerly5576]

Love, love it!!!!!!

[@jenningsjennings2051]

God Buddy Emmons was on point

[@connorm955]

Back when Johnny Paycheck's stage name was closer to his actual name, Donald Eugene Lytle

[@TheClemcaster]

What a tremendous find for me as a musician who loves this era of country music! Thankyou Jan. You must have some incredible memories of travelling with this fantastic band. What struck me was the variation in the set you played...beautiful swinging stuff. I was interested to hear you are Norwegian by birth; do you have family back there? My wife is half Norwegian - It’s a lovely country. Thanks again Jan.

[@connorm955]

Donny Young with i'd come back to me! excellent. How'd you find this? It's all fabulous.

[@bugman971]

Great musice --- in 1962 Buddy was playing a SHO-BUD -- Emmons steel not started till 1965.

[@MrPatdeeee]

There is no e on the end of music

[@EdLentz]

Never hear much about Little Red Hayes who recently passed away in Jasper Texas. He was one of the original Cherokee Cowboys, with Ray two different times for close to 18 years.

[@jameshepburn4631]

I thought both the Hayes brothers, Big Red and Little Red, played in Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys. For sure they both played with Hank on the original recording of "Wild Side Of Life" but maybe things changed later.

[@EdLentz]

@@jameshepburn4631 I don't know about Big Red but Little Red did play with Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys for a while. Also a steel player by the name of Dusty Stewert played at the same time. Both Little Red and Dusty played together again just a few years ago at the Liberty Opry.

[@frankiehernandez5401]

Hello mr. Kurtis... Are you the drummer in these videos?

[@bugman971]

There is no e on the end of steel ----- Pedal Steel Guitar -- with or with and e -- great pricking

[@darlenesteaveson6735]

Thank you for posting, Donny Young was a good singer but should never have been allowed to get his hands on a bass,

[@patcoleman8443]

Darlene Steaveson ... Johnny Paycheck could walk that bass and sing at the same time ... none other could touch his expertise .... for instance his performance with George Jones on Jimmy Dean show .. his song .....A-11 ...awesome !! and he played bass for George and did harmony also playing bass .... LOVE LOVE LOVE !!

[@jameshepburn4631]

When he was a Jones Boy and still Donny Young, not yet Johnny Paycheck, he also could play pedal steel when Sonny Curtis needed a day off. Donny was no Ralph Mooney, but did a competent job. There should be a video or two of him on the internet with him playing steel.

[@refrescante100]

Donny Young is better known as Johnny Paycheck.

[@mosrite60]

John Fyten oh, what, gosh I thought he sounded familiar. mosrite60

[@jameshepburn4631]

Too bad Ray Price decided to stop being one of the all time great country singers with one of the very top bands to become a second rate imitation of Jerry Vale around 1970. Just a few years before he died Ray made a ‘modernized’ return to by then alleged country music. I think the best example from his later period is probably “Better Class Of Loser”, but real country fans should focus on his earlier Columbia cuts with real classic country songs, four four shuffle beats, and “Tennessee Tenor” harmonies, not to mention great musicians. Last I saw Ray Price live was in Laughlin Nevada in 1989(?). My wife remarked it was about as country as Frank Sinatra Junior, who we had seen previously in Las Vegas.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

SHEEEEWWWW.......bass guitar is pretty bad out of tune