0185. Ray Price
Night Life
A very well-mannered album, Night Life starts with a partly spoken piece (aptly named Introduction And Theme / Night Life) directed to the audience, containing a thank you for the appreciation shown for the previous album, an introduction to what this album contains and the wish that we'll enjoy this album too, before segmenting into the title track.
Best in show is the cover of the Hank Thompson-track The Wild Side Of Life, mainly because it makes me think of the rebuttal from Kitty Wells (It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels), while not being so scathing as it could be still is a good semi-feminist statement.
It's classical white man's blues, suicide rate-elevating tears-in-beers country where men are men, women are faithless and men are crying over faithless women (while not forgetting to get some action from them from time to time, like in Bright Lights And Blonde-Haired Women).
