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Fred Chapellier,
both of our bands,
Jeff Ingersoll over
at Bonedog Records
and I are now hard
at work on our new
CD for DixieFrog
Records, tentatively
titled "Night Work."
We've finished all
the rhythm tracks
and are now working
on horn parts, final
... more
June 21: Fred Chapellier with the BP Band in Pittsburgh
I've written here
before about my
tours in France with
Fred Chapellier in
November 2007 and
April of this year.
We have mp3 files
and a video from
some of my shows
with Fred on our
website, under the
description of
Fred's latest CD, A
Tribute to Roy ... more
Billy Price: East End Avenue
Back to the Roots (Belgium), #57, October 2006
It' s been almost 6 years since we'd
put a brand new studio album of Billy
Price in our cd player. During that
period there were of course the double
live album "Sworn Testemony"
and the live dvd "Funky...Funky
Soul!!!" (entire BRBF concert 2003).
Billy produced, as expected, this cd.
And that he knows what he's doing is
a sure thing. But first he went looking
for song material. That was to be found
through the writer's duo, Jon and Sally
Tiven, not unknown people in the soul
world. (o.a. Wilson Pickett's It Harder
Now). They delivered the pleasing, yet
threatening "Push Me To The Limit"
(these horns!). Together with them he
wrote five other songs. Billy also persuaded
fellow-townsman and songwriter Mike
Sweeney who brought another six songs
to the studio. His "Only Two Lovers"
vagely sounds like Steely Dan and it
is, no doubt, my favourite song on this
cd, although I could not detect any
missers. "The Price I Paid For
Loving You" is a beautiful ballad,
while "Sweet Mistreatin' Love",
"She Left Me With These Blues"
and "Funky Like Dyke, pt 2"
(about Dyke & The Blazers), all in their
own right, are very funky. If "Soul
Sailing" would've been a single
in the mid sixties, it surely would've
been a million seller. This album bursts
of dynamic and inspired, adult soul
music! The whole band is playing strong
and tight and the horn section and the
backing vocals are a delight for your
ears. This is ultimate contagious soul,
sung and played by professionals with
the right feeling!