Showing posts with label Di Anne Price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Di Anne Price. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2020

Di Anne Price - Barrel House Queen

Year: 2007
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:31
Size: 146,6 MB
Styles: Jazzy piano blues
Scans: Front

1. Why Don't You Do Right (4:16)
2. If You're A Viper (4:22)
3. Going Down Slow (5:26)
4. Waitin' And Drinkin' (3:14)
5. A Good Man Is Hard To Find (5:14)
6. At The Club (3:39)
7. Just For A Thrill (4:23)
8. She's No Lady, She's Your Wife (3:21)
9. My Man Stands Out (2:53)
10. Blues Have Been Good To Me (4:26)
11. I'm Not Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin' (3:22)
12. The Soul Of A Man (5:48)
13. Tonight's The Night (3:09)
14. Black Cat Blues (5:03)
15. I'm Just A Lucky So And So (4:49)

Di Anne Price was bringing home a weekly paycheck long before most people even start thinking about getting a job. At the tender age of about four years old, she was playing the piano, first in church and later in more blues-oriented venues. Within a couple of years, she was making money at it and she recorded a tape at the age of nine. The music of vocalists like Sippie Wallace, Memphis Minnie, and Billie Holiday was calling to her even then.

A native of Memphis, TN, Price grew up to hold a full-time job as a nursing home's social director, but she always kept a hand in the blues scene, frequently performing at local nightspots with the Uptown All-Stars, her backing band. Price's parents were both very devoted to music. Her father liked to sing and play the guitar, while her mother was a lyricist. Price and her sisters all played the piano.

During her childhood, her mother indulged her when it came to her desire to make music on the piano, going so far as to allow the child to leave her bed in the dark of night if she had a desire to tickle the ivories. Mother and daughter stayed up until dawn many times, playing the piano together. If it was winter and the house was cold, Price would play the piano for hours while wearing her gloves, coat, and scarf. Often, her kittens would sing along with her. It was an unconventional parenting style, but one that evidently worked for Price, considering the mark she grew up to make with her music.

Price tried to expand her unconventionality into other areas of her life, sometimes with comical results. When she was still a little girl, Price hid her kittens in her pocketbook and smuggled them into church for choir practice. The kittens escaped, rooted themselves to a space under the lectern, and sang their feline hearts out while the minister tried to give his sermon without blowing a gasket. During junior high school, she sang with a group known as the Wildcats.

One of her later groups was Captain Phil McGee & the Hottennazz. She is featured on Wild Women, a cassette released in 1996 that features several members of her backing band, drummer Tom Lonardo, and saxophonist Jim Spake, as well as Scott Lane. Rounding out her band are the occasional trumpet of Richard Boyington and the bass of Tim Goodwin. /Biography by Linda Seida, AllMusic

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends - Blue Artistry

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:31
Size: 101.9 MB
Styles: Blues vocals & piano
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:14] 1. Why Don't You Do Right
[4:46] 2. Makin' Whoopee
[5:12] 3. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
[4:53] 4. Never Make Your Move Too Soon
[4:28] 5. Someone Else Is Steppin' In
[3:49] 6. That's All Right
[3:01] 7. Fishing In The Sea Of Matrimony
[3:33] 8. Right Side Of The Wrong Bed
[4:43] 9. Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (2000 Version)
[5:46] 10. The Soul Of A Man

Di Anne gets to the heart and meaning of a song that appeals to everyone. “When I play this music, sing these songs, I'm saying ‘share this story with me. I want real drums, real bass, and I want it to be my voice that people hear, not something created in a studio.”

Di Anne’s approach to music is shared with "Her Boyfriends" - drummer Tom Lonardo, saxophonist Jim Spake, and bassist Tim Goodwin. "Playing with them makes my back tingle. It's like making love," Di Anne says. "When we play, we're telling a story, and no matter where I start, they go with me." ~John Taylor

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Di Anne Price - 2 albums: Refreshed / 88 Steps To The Blues

Album: Refreshed
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:21
Size: 135.9 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz piano & vocals
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Pig Meat
[3:19] 2. To Hell With Love
[4:37] 3. Hallelujah, I Love Him So
[5:11] 4. Fever
[3:39] 5. I Love Being Here With You
[4:15] 6. You Won't Let Me Go
[4:34] 7. I Want To Be Seduced
[3:30] 8. Sugar In My Bowl
[2:23] 9. Keep Sittin' On It
[4:59] 10. I Need Your Love So Bad
[2:45] 11. Alone On My Own
[4:46] 12. Makin' Whoopee
[4:45] 13. Wild Women Don't Have The Blues
[4:17] 14. Livin' Alone
[3:12] 15. One Mo' Bottle Of Beer

Memphis blues and jazz artist Di Anne Price died of liver cancer, March 13, 2013. She was easily one of the fabled music city’s most beloved performers. Her superb albums Barrel House Queen, Sugar in My Bowl, Love Come and Go, Blue Artistry, The Best Price, 88 Steps to the Blues, Taking the Blues in Stride, and Deja Blu, all showcase her smoky vocals, barrelhouse piano, and her fascination with a variety of blues and jazz styles from 1920s throwback to more contemporary arrangements.

As a little girl, Price would wake up in the middle of the night wanting to play the piano. She’d get dressed, put on gloves if it was cold, wake her mom, and the two would play and sing until morning. The first songs Price ever learned were blues, and the husky-voiced storyteller never stopped singing them. Price, always credited her mom, and called her fans her babies, never lost her enthusiasm. She told John Taylor of Blues on Stage that the first thing she did in the morning was touch her piano to make sure it was still there. The second thing she did was sit down and practice. Price told The Memphis Flyer she was happiest when working. “You know, when I’m in a smoke-filled bar, and can smell the Jack Daniels all around, and I’m singing something that’s right just for the moment, that’s working just for that moment, and people are really listening, that’s everything I need.”

Di Anne was the undisputed Barrel House Queen, the 21st century spirit of classic blues divas Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Sippie Wallace, and Memphis Minnie. A profoundly soulful singer, her expressive voice was etched with pain or brimming with sly humor while she played barrel piano style on two-fisted shuffles, rolling blues, and boogie woogie workouts. ~Jazz Times

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Album: Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends - 88 Steps To The Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:09
Size: 82.8 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz piano & vocals
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[2:56] 1. Key To The Highway
[2:27] 2. Keep Sittin' On It
[4:09] 3. Elaine
[3:16] 4. Waitin' And Drinkin'
[3:36] 5. Lonesome Shack
[3:20] 6. Lonely Avenue
[4:54] 7. I Need Your Love So Bad
[4:12] 8. Two Years Of Torture
[2:39] 9. Alone On My Own
[4:34] 10. You Help Your New Woman

Memphis pianist-vocalist Di Anne Price channels the spirit of classic blues divas Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Sippie Wallace, and Memphis Minnie. A profoundly soulful singer, her expressive voice is etched with pain or brimming with sly humor while tickling the ivories barrel piano style on two-fisted shuffles, rolling blues, and boogie woogie workouts. ~Jazz Times

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