About the artist
2016 Blues Music Award winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan, appearing as vocalist on That’s What I’m Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price Band, and solo projects, he has released 17 albums, CDs, and DVDs. In April 2016, he was officially recognized and inducted as a Pittsburgh Rock ’n Roll Legend.
This Time for Real (with Otis Clay) won the 2016 Blues Music Award for Best Soul Blues Album of 2015. Reckoning (2018), produced by Kid Andersen at Greaseland Studios, was nominated for a 2019 Blues Music Award. Dog Eat Dog, also produced by Andersen, was released on Gulf Coast Records in August 2019.
Band lineups
Pittsburgh-based Billy Price Band: Dave Dodd (drums), Tom Valentine (bass), Lenny Smith (guitar), Jim Britton (keyboards), Eric Spaulding (sax), Joe Herndon (trumpet).
Billy Price Charm City Rhythm Band (Baltimore, MD): El Torro Gamble (drums), Greg Haughey (bass), Pete Kanaras (guitar), Tam Sullivan (keyboards), Dan Gutwein (sax), Vince McCool (trumpet).