Billy Price is the stage name of soul

Soul music

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 singer William Pollak. Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Fair Lawn, New Jersey

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 in 1949, he has lived in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

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, USA

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 since the mid 1970s.

Career

Price attracted national attention in the mid-1970s during his three-year collaboration with blues guitarist Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...

. The pair toured the U.S. and Canada

Canada

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, playing Carnegie Hall

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 in New York

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, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Roxy and Troubadour in Los Angeles, and the Spectrum in Philadelphia. After leaving Buchanan, Price formed the Keystone Rhythm Band, which toured the Eastern US on a circuit that stretched from Boston to Atlanta with large followings in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and North Carolina. Sustaining several personnel changes, the band performed until 1990. He then formed The Billy Price Band, which currently consists of Steve Delach (guitar), Paul Thompson (bass), Dave Dodd (drums), Jimmy Britton (keyboards), Joe Herndon (trumpet), Eric DeFade (tenor sax) and Rick Matt (baritone and tenor sax).

Though he works full-time in corporate communications at the Software Engineering Institute

Software Engineering Institute

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 at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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, he continues to perform regularly in Pittsburgh, the eastern United States, and occasionally in Europe.

• Official Website

Discography

2010: "Billy Price and Fred Chapellier Live on Stage" - CD and DVD documenting the May 2009 Night Work tour, featuring French guitarist Fred Chapellier and his band and Billy Price Band keyboard player Jimmy Britton. Recorded live at Espace Manureva, Charleville-Mézieres, France.

2009: "Night Work." DixieFrog Records (France), with French guitarist Fred Chapellier and special guests Otis Clay and Mark Wenner of The Nighthawks.

2006: "East End Avenue." 14 songs (13 original), including six co-written with Jon Tiven

Jon Tiven

Jon Tiven is a composer, guitarist and record producer. He has produced albums by Wilson Pickett, Frank Black and Don Covay as well as a series of tribute albums paying tribute to the songwriting of Don Covay, Arthur Alexander, Otis Blackwell, Curtis Mayfield, and Van Morrison.-Early career:He was...

.

2003: "Funky, Funky Soul." DVD of performance at the Belgium

Belgium

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 Rhythm & Blues Festival.

2002: "Sworn Testimony: The Billy Price Band Live." Double-CD of April 2002 performance at the Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD.

1999: "Can I Change My Mind." Collection of songs written specifically for Price by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams.

1997: "The Soul Collection." CD containing 16 soul songs including a duet with Otis Clay, "That's How It Is."

1993: "Danger Zone." Price's first album without the Keystone Rhythm Band.

1988: "Free At Last." Album with the Keystone Rhythm Band featuring songs written by Price and other members of the band.

1984: "Live." Recording of Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band live at the Wax Museum

Wax museum

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in Washington D.C.

1981, 1979: "Is It Over?, They Found Me Guilty."CD of Price's first two albums with the Keystone Rhythm Band.