East End Avenue

Billy Price | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2006)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bonedog Records BDRCD-18
• ASIN: B000FUU1MW
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #483,465 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Keep It to Yourself

2. Soul Sailin'

3. She Left Me With These Blues

4. East End Avenue

5. The Other Side of You

6. If You Cook Like You Walk

7. The Big Show

8. Only Two Lovers

9. The Price I Paid for Loving You

10. Push Me To My Limit

11. Sweet Mistreatin' Love

12. Funky Like Dyke, Part 2

13. The Hard Hours

14. Faithful and True

Editorial Reviews

Billy Price's first studio CD since Can I Change My Mind in 1999, the long-awaited East End Avenue features Price and the Billy Price Band on a set of 13 original new songs, five of which were co-written by Price with Jon Tiven, recent winner of four 2006 Blues Music Awards, including Song of the Year for “Think of Me” by Little Milton. East End Avenue also has a song written by Billy Price Band keyboard player Jimmy Britton, a cover of Dan Penn’s “Faithful and True,” and six songs written by Pittsburgh songwriter Mike Sweeney. Price and his band recorded East End Avenue at the Mojo Boneyard in McKeesport, PA. The Boneyard is the site of a burgeoning soul and blues revival in the Pittsburgh area; artists who have recorded there include Bobby Wayne, Hoodoo Drugstore, Piney Brown, Tommy Brown, and Guitar Shorty. East End Avenue was produced by Price and Jeff Ingersoll, owner of the Mojo Boneyard and Bonedog Records.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Wait, June 20, 2006

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tony mowatt (new market, va.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East End Avenue (Audio CD)

Well, I've been waiting for this kind of top shelf original material (13 of the 14 songs) from Billy Price for a long time. Not that a majority of his previous output hasn't been worth hearing repeatedly, it has -the lone exception being the late 80's Free at Last (Price's only other collection of original material until now) which attempted to turn Mr. Price and his then Keystone Rhythm Band into Huey Lewis and the News, an ironic twist in as much as it was better than Huey Lewis but failed to meet Mr. Price's high standard of comparison -the often incomparable southern soul rarities that he'd been singing since his college days in the late sixties and early seventies -the same material that he still performs. Now, with 'East End Avenue' he and his stellar band (man, give that drummer some!) have achieved parity with that vast collection of songs he has performed over the last five decades. And he's no parvenue. As Geoffrey Himes said, Mr. Price is "not merely an imitation of older, better singers, he's the real thing."
A must have.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soulfully Solid, November 15, 2006

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Larry White (AdultPop.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East End Avenue (Audio CD)

Our friend Billy Price, darling of Fair Lawn, NJ, State College and Pittsburgh, Pa and fortunate Rhythm and Blues cognoscenti everywhere, has delivered another soulfully solid cd. `East End Avenue' contains all those elements its predecessors had: a fine array of songs running the gamut of styles from post-bebop to pre-hiphop, soul music; a top-notch band, technically tight and spiritedly loose (morally, we know them not well enough to judge, although Price himself seems as upright as they come...look at the way he nimbly and good naturedly skirts an implied and incriminating line in the title track); and a simply superb singer and musical stylist, Billy Price. This is a terrific batch of songs, nearly all brand-new, though you'd guess them to be vintage. Billy and The Billy Price Band have never sounded more relaxed and comfortable with each other. Proof is the radio-ready "Soul Sailin'", the party atmosphere of "East End Avenue", and the lusty, good humor of `If You Cook Like You Walk". But we have to admit that, for us, when it comes to Billy Price, as with most soul singers, the uptempo numbers are only killing the time before and between the ballads, in this case, the shuffling, bluesy "The Other Side of You", the Dan Penn-penned finale "Faithful and True", and, most particularly, the instant classic "The Price I Paid for Loving You". We don't know if the pun in that title is intended or not. Regardless, it is arguably the best song Price has ever written (with John and Sally Tiven) and gives him a sublime vehicle for a vocal tour de force.

4.0 out of 5 stars Location, location, location!, July 11, 2006

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Terry Goldman "Bluesjew4847" (Kents Store, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East End Avenue (Audio CD)

For the first time in years, BP has gone into a studio and crafted a strong, soulful new CD, East End Ave. Almost entirely new material makes for a pleasureable hour of soul, funk and blues.

This album is plain tough to take out of my car's CD player.The CD opens with a shuffle tune and Price's warning...."It's almost time for me to go...." and goes right into the terrific harmonic "Soul Sailing."which may be the sleeper of the whole production.

The title cut is as close as it gets to replacing El Dorado Cafe as the BP signature tune.

Yet in the end, this splendid new album gives us the one and only Price as he covers "Faithful and True." Deep soul mixed with rich
tenor sax (this is going to be SO good "live" from long time sideman Eric DeFade showcases one hot and fat band. It oozes with sex!

Albums like this come along once in a while and this one is a winner.