Price hit Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a short time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price took over Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a hit with "Release Me" (1953), a song made famous by Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. However, Price became one of the stalwarts of the grinding, honky tonk music that became even more popular in the early 1950s with such singers as Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce and others. Price developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle Beat" that is heard on "Crazy Arms," which served as the beat for many honky-tonk classics since then.
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I Can't Run Away From Myself Lyrics

Ray Price

(Hank Cochran - Ray Price)
The day you left me I left town that night
I thought I could forget that you're out of sight
But you're still a part of me and so I see
That miles can't change a thing for me.
I ran away from friends that we once knew
I tried to run from thoughts of losing you
I ran away from everybody else
But I can't run away from myself.
--- Instrumental ---
It makes no difference just how far I'd go
Your memory will always haunt me so
I realize the truth now since I left
That I can't run away from myself.
I ran away from friends that we once knew
I tried to run from thoughts of losing you
I ran away from everybody else
But I can't run away from myself...