Who's got any info on this undersung picker?
I think there's two of them, just to make it interesting. There's a steel
guitar Speedy Price, and there's a guitar/mandolin/fiddle Speedy Price.
The second on is the one I'm interested in.
I worked with him for most of 1978, but didn't get a lot on his
background. I did learn that Jack Greene worked for him before he went
with Ernest Tubb, and that in those days he was working in Atlanta, and
that he's been in the Washington, DC area since sometime before 1978.
I need to know because we need to write some blurbs. Honky Tonk
Confidential will be hosting a monthly series of the "District of Country
Barn Dance and Show." The first one, in March, will feature local dance
scene legends the Oklahoma Twisters, and Classic Country which contains
Speedy Price and Buddy Charleton. We can say things about Buddy, but what
can we say about Speedy beyond the fact that I learned a hell of a lot by
playing with him? Mr. Weisberger? Mr. Gracy? Anybody?
-- Mike Woods
PS: If you don't know about Buddy Charleton, listen to some Ernest Tubb
records. When he says "and Buddy, now," that's who he's talking about.
Definitely in the top drawer of steel guitar gods.
