Joel Price
Musician · 1910–1999
Best known for
Bass
Joel Price played bass with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys at the turn of the 1950s, including the 1950 Decca sessions, and holds a small piece of Grand Ole Opry history as the first bassist to play an electric bass on that stage.
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- He came from the Gumlog community near Lavonia, Georgia.
- He first joined the Blue Grass Boys in early 1947 and returned to the band around 1949 and 1950.
- He played on Monroe’s 1950 Decca sessions, which included the recording of “Mule Skinner Blues” made with the young Jimmy Martin in the band.
- He also worked with Tommy Scott, “Little” Jimmy Dickens and George Morgan — the country circuit that ran alongside bluegrass in those years.
- He is credited as the first bass player to bring an electric bass onto the Opry stage, at a time when the instrument was regarded as an intrusion.
- He died in 1999. In this catalog he appears on Blue Grass Boys recordings from 1950 and 1951.
