tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230238742010-02-26T12:36:02.192-05:00Billy Price, blue-eyed soul man, is the former lead vocalist with Roy Buchanan and founder of Billy Price &amp; the Keystone Rhythm Band. He has been entertaining Pittsburgh and east coast audiences for more than 35 years. The Billy Price Band began in 1990. Current members are Steve Delach, Paul Thompson, Jimmy Britton, Dave Dodd, Rick Matt, Eric DeFade, and Joe Herndon. Their latest CD, <a href="cds.html">Night Work</a>, with French guitarist Fred Chapellier, was released in 2009.Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00760848289265456912noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23023874.post-32767722109064632572009-11-22T21:55:00.000-05:002009-11-22T21:55:59.269-05:00

When you think about gifts this holiday season, we hope that you will consider our CDs and DVDs for the music lovers in your life. In particular, our latest CD with French guitarist Fred Chapellier, Night Work, continues to get great reviews like this one in Blues Revue. And when you order your disc from our website, just include a note with your order, and I'll be glad to sign it for you.

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We have some exciting shows that we have coming up during the next couple of months, and I hope that you will consider attending at least one of them if you're nearby--or even if you're not. This coming Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving, we will be playing the annual Johnstown Free Medical Clinic benefit concert at the Ace's Lounge in Johnstown, PA, where I have been playing for my

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Check out this review in Blues Revue of Night Work. Blues Revue, Issue 120 (Oct/Nov 2009) BILLY PRICE & FRED CHAPELLIER Night Work DixieFrog Records They call it "Champagne Blues and Pittsburgh Soul." This unlikely but fruitful pairing between Pennsylvania veteran R&B vocalist Billy Price and French blues guitarist Fred Chapellier was sparked when the latter invited the former to guest on a 2007

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How many shows have the Nighthawks played since they started in the early 1970s? How many shows have I played since I met the Hawks as a member of the Rhythm Kings around the same time? A lot. When two bands play on the same bill together, here's what always happens: One band plays the first show, the other band plays the second show, maybe they jam a little on the encore, and then everyone

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I have known Washington D.C.'s great blues band, The Nighthawks, since the early 1970s, and have been proud to call them my friends ever since. Blues Extravaganza I was sometime around 1978 or 1979: on the show were the 'Hawks, the newly formed Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band, and my former band, the Rhythm Kings. It was organized and promoted by the owners of a bar in Swissvale, PA

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Things are great with the Billy Price Band. We have some great shows coming up that we want to tell you about, but first, let me catch you up with news.Jimmy Britton and I had a great tour in France with our buddy Fred Chapellier and his fine band in May. Our latest CD with Fred on Bonedog Records, Night Work, continues to sell briskly and receive great reviews throughout the civilized world. And

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Friends,We're going to be playing--yes, an actual live performance--at Jeffries Landing in Bridgewater, PA, which is close to Beaver, PA. The show is on March 21 and will start at 9:30.Then on April 3 and April 5, Fred Chapellier is coming to the U.S. to play shows with us at the Berks Jazz Fest in Reading, PA on Friday, April 3 and in McKeesport, PA, near Pittsburgh, at the Palisades Ballroom on

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Available on our website now!

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They should be here around February 12. When they arrive, we'll be putting them up for sale on our website.To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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The official release date of our new CD with Fred Chapellier, Night Work (DixieFrog Records) is March 12. Fred sent me a review of the CD at Mac & Guitare at http://www.macdan.org/spip.php?article1883. My French isn't too good, but I can tell that the writer likes it!Another advance review is in Jim White's blog at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/bluenotes/

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A while back, we started a fan site on Facebook, and recently we've started to add more content there. There will be a lot more content coming, including photos and mp3s, and we'd love it if you would participate.Search for "Billy Price Band" in Facebook or go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Billy-Price-Band/19925994032.To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.

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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

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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 with

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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 the

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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 certainly

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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 I

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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 like

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