tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230238742009-04-14T06:01:44.906-04:00Billy Price, blue-eyed soul man, is the former lead vocalist with Roy Buchanan and founder of Billy Price & 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">East End Avenue</a>, was released in June 2006.Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00760848289265456912noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23023874.post-26587798636849886232009-03-08T22:03:00.003-04:002009-04-07T06:43:28.335-04:00

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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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 is a

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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 Band

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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 in

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