42. RAY PRICE

Ray Price’s relationship with good friend and frequent tourmate Hank Williams Sr. led to the 1956 smash “Crazy Arms”; its easygoing but determined tempo is still known as the “Ray Price shuffle.” (See also: “Heartaches By the Number,” “One More Time,” etc.) Price’s luxuriant tenor was equally durable. The Cherokee County native, alumnus of Dallas’ Big D Jamboree and the Grand Ole Opry, also topped the charts with hoary tearjerker “Danny Boy” and Kris Kristofferson’s melancholy “For the Good Times.”

Most Texas musical moment:

Price’s version of Willie Nelson’s “Night Life.”