
My new CD,
Night Work, with the great French blues guitarist
Fred Chapellier, will be released in Europe in March on
DixieFrog Records. There's a good chance that it will be available on our
website before the official release.
Here's some
video from the recording sessions that the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review posted, along with
this article. And check this
sneak preview of the CD by Jim White on the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette BlueNotes blog. You can hear some of the songs from the CD on the
Billy Price/Fred Chapéllier myspace page.
To support the release of the new CD, Fred will travel to the U.S., where he and the Billy Price Band will perform at the
19th Annual VF Outlet Berks Jazz Fest in Reading, PA on Friday, April 3. He'll also be with us at a CD Release Party at the Palisades Ballroom in McKeesport, PA on Sunday, April 5. Last March, we played at the Palisades with the great
Otis Clay, and we're working on getting Otis to come to Pittsburgh to join us again for the release party. Then in May, I'm going to France to do a two-week tour with Fred and his fine band. Dates for the tour are on the
website schedule page.
I expect that fans of my work with
Roy Buchanan are going to love
Night Work. Roy is one of Fred's biggest influences as a guitarist; in fact, Fred's last CD for DixieFrog was titled
A Tribute to Roy Buchanan.
More About Night WorkMark Wenner, harmonica player of the
Nighthawks, plays on three songs--the title song, written by our friend Mike Sweeney from Pittsburgh; a new version of "Who You're Working For," which I recorded with Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band on the
Free at Last CD in 1988; and a new song written by me, Sweeney, Sally Tiven, and
Jon Tiven titled "The Wrong Woman." Also making a guest appearance on the new CD, singing Al Green's "Love and Happiness," is Otis Clay.
Here's a youtube video of
Otis singing the track in the studio. (Thanks, Jimmy.)
Fred and I wrote six songs for the new CD, BP Band keyboard player Jimmy Britton and I wrote one, and Sweeney contributed a great tribute to O.V. Wright. Speaking of O.V. Wright, no Billy Price CD would be complete without at least one O.V. Wright cover. This time, it's "Don't Let My Baby Ride."
The CD is a true international collaboration. The Billy Price Band play on most of the tracks, but Fred's great band--Abder Benachour on bass, Pat Machenaud on drums, and Damien Cornelis on keyboards--play on three songs, with horns overdubbed by the Billy Price Band horn section.
For the latest information about the CD and upcoming tours, bookmark the
Billy Price/Fred Chapéllier myspace page and stop by when you can.
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