Jim White of the Post-Gazette reviews Moondog's show

I was happy to run into Jim White from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at our show at Moondog's on Saturday night last week. Jim writes a great blues blog at the PPG and has been writing about and promoting the blues in Pittsburgh for many years.

Here's what Jim wrote on his blog about the show:

Saturday night it was back to Moondog's to see long-time Pittsburgh blue-eyed soul guy Billy Price, who I had not seen for a long time, and who sounds better than ever.

I asked him if it was just my imagination, or was he having more fun than he had 30 years ago -- he said it wasn't my imagination. It looks that way. He ripped his way through a couple sets of his classic soul favorites with a full band that included, at one point, four crackling horns -- two saxes, two trumpets. That's the way it this music was meant to be played. Too much sax always beats too much violence.

Watching the hornmen dip and step together, I had a brief flashback to the first time I saw Fats Domino at the old Twin Coaches night club, and his line of horn players was sharp and snappy. If only Billy's guys had been wearing charcoal and pink....

And there's always something unique about a small, informal club -- whether it's when the singer (Billy Price, remember?) steps down off the stage to testify to the front tables, or the horn players move out and roam the bar, or my personal favorite, when the bartender weaves a big, full trashcan through the middle of the dancers.

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