Hold Steddy, P.Scoring a coup for Missouri rap, local MC Ray Price, aka Steddy P., has landed the opening spot for Talib Kweli when the renowned Brooklynite comes to the Granada with Hi-Tek on Sunday, April 26.
Though he recently moved back to his hometown of KC, Steddy rose out of the Columbia, Missouri scene (hence his latest full-length, Dear Columbia, P.S.) where he attended college and founded the label Indyground Entertainment. He's gotten lots of love from the local press out there. Gene
Just a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri. Incoming Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. told the The Associated Press yesterday that he didn't expect the Court to schedule any executions while the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs an appeal on behalf of death row inmate Reginald Clemons that questions the constitutionality of Missouri's lethal injection protocol.The st
This might be the first incoming announcement I've ever posted where I think it's possible that the artist might die before the show. A macabre thought, to be sure, but Ray Price turns 84 next Tuesday.
The man is a living legend, and his first number one country single came over 50 years ago, with 1956's "Crazy Arms." Price is also the man who originally recorded songs that have since become country standards, like "Make the World Go Away," "Heartaches By the Number," and "City Lights."
