Progress on new CD and web site additions
Friends,
Things are coming together nicely on our new CD, which doesn't yet have a title (though we're leaning toward "East End Avenue," which is also the title of one of the hottest songs). It's hard for me to believe that it's been 6 1/2 years since my last studio CD, but it's true. We're recording at the Mojo Boneyard in McKeesport, PA (which has been in the news lately), site of a burgeoning soul revival in the Pittsburgh area that we are proud to participate in.
The material on the CD is all new and all original with the exception of one cover song from our current repertoire. For the past year and half or so, I've been writing songs with Jon Tiven and his wife Sally; a great Pittsburgh songwriter named Mike Sweeney is also contributing songs; and so is our new full-time keyboard player Jimmy Britton. We're aiming for release sometime this spring, and we'll be announcing CD release parties on our web site soon.
At the same time, we're going to be making lots of changes to our web site that will allow you to participate more fully in the Billy Price Band experience. This new blog is one of the changes, and we hope that you will be part of it by posting your comments on our blog. We also invite you to sign our new guestbook and read what other Billy Price Band fans have written.
Finally, we've decided to start a photo gallery on the web site, and we'd like to ask for your help. If you have a digital photo from a Billy Price Band gig, or a photo of you or someone you know with me or with some of the other guys in the Billy Price Band, or just a photo of you and your friends having fun at one of our gigs, send it to us in email at info@billyprice.com, and we'll post our favorites in the new gallery.
That's all for now. Check this space often, and join the party!
Soulfully yours,
Billy Price
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Things are coming together nicely on our new CD, which doesn't yet have a title (though we're leaning toward "East End Avenue," which is also the title of one of the hottest songs). It's hard for me to believe that it's been 6 1/2 years since my last studio CD, but it's true. We're recording at the Mojo Boneyard in McKeesport, PA (which has been in the news lately), site of a burgeoning soul revival in the Pittsburgh area that we are proud to participate in.
The material on the CD is all new and all original with the exception of one cover song from our current repertoire. For the past year and half or so, I've been writing songs with Jon Tiven and his wife Sally; a great Pittsburgh songwriter named Mike Sweeney is also contributing songs; and so is our new full-time keyboard player Jimmy Britton. We're aiming for release sometime this spring, and we'll be announcing CD release parties on our web site soon.
At the same time, we're going to be making lots of changes to our web site that will allow you to participate more fully in the Billy Price Band experience. This new blog is one of the changes, and we hope that you will be part of it by posting your comments on our blog. We also invite you to sign our new guestbook and read what other Billy Price Band fans have written.
Finally, we've decided to start a photo gallery on the web site, and we'd like to ask for your help. If you have a digital photo from a Billy Price Band gig, or a photo of you or someone you know with me or with some of the other guys in the Billy Price Band, or just a photo of you and your friends having fun at one of our gigs, send it to us in email at info@billyprice.com, and we'll post our favorites in the new gallery.
That's all for now. Check this space often, and join the party!
Soulfully yours,
Billy Price
To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.
7 Comments:
Six 1/2 years is too long for
Six 1/2 is too long for a fan with a twenty five year history! Promise the Philly fans you will schedule one big, blow out of a CD release party.
Yours in the Blues,
Phillyrose
phillyrose,
Absolutely! Our gig at the Tin Angel on June 3 will be a CD release party for Philly-area fans.
Regards,
Billy Price
Received your mailing late last night and am so happy to hear that there's a new CD in the makings.
Additionally, am thrilled that it is being recorded locally and will include songs by probably one of Pittsburgh's most under rated but talented writers Mike Sweeney. One of the last published interviews I did was with Bill Toms of Hard Rain, and one of my paragraphs in that article came to mind when I read that you're recording locally. To paraphrase, release of Hard Rain's last CD and your next CD increases the likelihood that one day music historians will just marvel over the high quality of music made and/or distributed by tiny labels Moondog and Bone Yard Records that most Pittsburgh area commercial radio sadly kicks to the curb rather than support and play. I love Pittsburgh music and never will accept that your cds sit on radio station's shelves collecting dust except maybe for some airplay on public radio's WYEP. You and some other artists here record and produce albums/cds that make us proud as fans to send these pieces of art to far away friends with pride, and to rub it in that this type of excellence in a band is just around the corner at a local venue around Pittsburgh and not in their towns. I thank you for all your many years of music that you've given to us and so eagerly look forward to interviewing you and having another great Billy Price cd for my collection.
Looking forward to the new CD. Don't forget us "soul billies" down here in WV. Would love to see you do a gig in Morgantown. Thanks for all the music.
Please round up some West Virgina work.
"Soul Billie # 1.
Jed Zep
I'm so excited for your new album! Do you think you'll be doing any concerts the weekend of July 4th? I plan to be in town then.
Leland said...
I'm so excited for your new album! Do you think you'll be doing any concerts the weekend of July 4th? I plan to be in town then.
Yep, the Fourth of July Centennial Celebration in Midland, PA on July 2. See the Billy Price Band schedule.
Billy
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