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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 vocals, and overdubs including, we hope, cameo appearances from Mark Wenner, harp player of the Nighthawks, and Otis Clay. Here's an article from the

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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 Buchanan, on which I sing a version of "A Nickle and a Nail." There are photos here, here, and here. Fred is coming to Pittsburgh to spend a week

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I recently got hold of a CD that an old friend burned for me of my first big-time band, the Rhythm Kings (l to r: Lazy Henry, Chris "Bloomfield Slim" Patarini, John Hogue, Kurt "Junior Smoke" Steinle, me, Gene "Dr. Feelgood" Hudak), playing live in State College, PA in 1975, and it's so good, I decided to share it with you all for free in mp3. Go here and download the songs. After listening to

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On March 14 at the Palisades Ballroom, 501 Water Street in McKeesport, PA, we're going to have the privilege of performing with my friend and mentor, the great Otis Clay. Otis, along with background vocalists Theresa Davis and Dianne Madison (who sing on my Soul Collection CD), is coming to Pittsburgh to perform at a private event on March 15. When we booked that date, Jeff over at Bonedog

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You can now buy Fred Chapellier's CD, A Tribute to Roy Buchanan, on my web site. It's a great CD--highly recommended. To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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Here. To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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I'm back in Pittsburgh after a successful series of dates with Fred Chapellier and his great band--Abder Benechour on bass and Pat Machenaud on drums--in Ensisheim, Goussainville, Pagney-derriere Barine (near Toul), and Chaumont. The audiences in France listen with rapt attention, appreciate great music, and are a lot of fun to play for. The photo above is from our show in Goussainville, which is

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We just got confirmation that the Billy Price Band will be at the Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD on New Year's Eve. This is just about our favorite place to play in the world, so we are really excited about this. They plan to add a dance floor for this gig--yes, dancing at the Ram's Head--and sell only 160 tickets, so if you want to be there, you'd better move quickly because it will

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Which also happens to be my birthday! Here's the Web site for the event. To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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In a couple of weeks, I'll be on my way to France for a one-week tour with French blues guitarist Fred Chapellier. I first met Fred, yes, over the Internet. Shortly after East End Avenue was released, Fred contacted me, introduced himself, and told me he was a big fan of mine and of Roy Buchanan, with whom I sang in recorded in the 1970s. After I heard--and loved--Fred's recordings, we began

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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

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A few years ago, I wrote some articles in a book called MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide. One of the articles, about the Impressions, got the attention of Impressions' lead singer Ralph Johnson, and Ralph left a note for me in my guest book. Pretty cool! To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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Four days later, I'm still buzzed (forgive the crass metaphor, I'm talking about a natural high) about our show at the 32nd World Convention of Narcotics Anonymous in San Antonio, TX last Thursday night. We played for a huge crowd of amazingly attentive, positive people who were there to celebrate their liberation from drug addiction, and the energy that came back to us from the audience was

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Rex Rutkoski wrote a great article previewing yesterday's Labor United Celebration concert in Apollo, PA. The article requires registration, but the form is simple to fill out. I prefer doing interviews these days because they're now usually conducted by email. This prevents misquotes, which used to drive me crazy, and it also enables me to be more thoughtful about my answers to questions. Rex

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We celebrate a blessed event. Please join us in welcoming to the world Joe and Christen Herndon's first child, the beautiful Sophia Grace. There will now be one more member of the Herndon family hitting high notes at home: To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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In around 1972 or 1973, I played at Armadillo World Headquarters with Roy Buchanan. While ego-surfing last night (I do this several times a day), I found this: Yep, that's me at the beginning of the video saying "Thank you" (I've always been a polite guy) and walking to the side of the stage for a song on which I don't sing. I can also be seen for a few seconds on the film Striking Distance

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Our new guitar player in the Billy Price Band is Steve Delach. We've played a lot of gigs this year already with Steve, most recently at J.M. Randalls in Williamsburg, VA, and we're thrilled to have an accomplished guitarist like Steve join up with us. Steve has been playing guitar all his life. He's a graduate of the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA, where BP

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After 15 years--can it possibly have been that long?--Billy Price Band guitarist Lenny Smith has decided to leave the band. Increasingly during the past couple of years, Lenny wasn't enjoying the traveling we do throughout the year, and he's decided that he wants to be free to pursue some exciting ideas he has to develop in different directions as a musician. I respect his decision, and there are

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This post builds on my last post about blue-eyed soul in Pennsylvania. I always thought that one of the reasons I did well in Pittsburgh after I started playing here was that the local disk jockeys had worked so hard during the 50s and 60s to build an audience for R&B, blues, and soul. And the king of all the Pittsburgh DJs was and is the great Porky Chedwick, the Daddio of the Raddio. Sometime

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I exchanged some email this week with Justin Hopper of the Pittsburgh City Paper. Justin is working on a story right now about Chuck Corby, a Pittsburgh soul singer now working the lounge circuit, and he asked my opinion about why it is that so many highly regarded blue-eyed soul and r&b singers have come out of Pennsylvania (e.g., me, Jimmy Beaumont, Johnny Daye*, the Del Vikings, the

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Three great gigs this past weekend, beginning with the Pittsburgh Blues Festival on Friday night. Opening the show--we started at 6:30--is a challenging slot to get people moving, but I thought we did fairly well nonetheless. Here is one of several great photos that Glenn and Lisa Palm sent us from the show: The next day, we traveled to Morrisville, PA and played at the Bucks County Blues

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We hope you like the new design of our web site. We'll be working out some kinks during the next week or so, and you can help. If you see anything that looks funny or wrong, please send us an email. To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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We played for the Central Pennsylvania Center for the Arts at Penn State last weekend, and I got this nice note from Jim Myers, who came up from Indiana, PA: Very big show I must say. The band was so hot. I've never seen you into it as much as you were for Saturday's show. I thought I would miss that intimate "Moondogs" feel but you were killer. We all wanted more but I know there was a

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In preparation for a feature on this year's Pittsburgh Blues Festival, Scott Mervis at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked me this question: "We're previewing the Blues Festival and what we'd like to do is have the artists talk about the musician who influenced them the most -- what they loved about them, what they learned from them. Would it be possible to email me a few graphs* in the next few

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Friends, I expect that I will be blogging more frequently in the near future. We are almost finished with a complete redesign of our web site, and on the new site, the "BP's Blog" link is prominent on every page. That means that I'm going to have to get back in the habit of writing more frequently here; otherwise no one will ever bother to click these now-prominent links. So, to get me started

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