Lowdown & Up by Toni Price (CD, Mar-1999, Texas Music Group/Lone Star Records)

Album Features
UPC:	049891004421
Artist:	Toni Price
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	Texas Music Group/Lone Star Records
Genre:	Blues, Contemporary Blues

Track Listing
1. Out the Front Door
2. Foolin' Around
3. Comes Love
4. Don't You Think I Feel It Too?
5. Anything
6. Remember Me?
7. Loserville Blues
8. Feel Like Cryin'
9. Lonesome Wind
10. Lowdown and Up
11. Rusty Old Red River
12. Wishing Well
13. Why Is Love Like That? - (Shoeshine Charley Intro)

Details
Playing Time:	47 min.
Contributing Artists:	Dr. John, Ian McLagan, Johnny Gimble
Producer:	Derek O'Brien, Toni Price
Distributor:	Ryko Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Toni Price (vocals); Scrappy Jud Newcomb (acoustic, acoustic slide & gut string guitar); Casper Rawls (acoustic, electric & electric B Bender guitar); Champ Hood (acoustic & slide guitar, fiddle, background vocals); Steve Doerr (guitar, harmonica); Derek O'Brien (electric guitar); Jimmy Day (pedal steel guitar); Rich Brotherton (mandolin, background vocals); Johnny Gimble (fiddle); John Mills (flute, tenor & baritone saxophones); Gary Schlecta (trumpet); Jon Blondell (trombone); Ian MacLagen (piano, Wurlitzer piano); Dr. John, Riley Osbourne (piano); Chris Maresh (upright bass); Larry Fulcher, Speedy Sparks (bass); Barry "Frosty" Smith (drums, congas); Donald Lindley (drums, percussion).Recorded at Pedernales & Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas.Austin blues diva Toni Price teamed up with guitarist/producer Derek O'Brien on this 1999 outing, bringing her formidable chops to bear on a delightful batch of tunes new and old. With brand-name players aboard like Johnny Gimble, Casper Rawls, and Champ Hood handling the majority of the guitar work and Ian McLagen and Dr. John making guest turns on keyboards, the band positively swings on every cut, no matter what the lineup yields. Price has the smoothest and laziest of deliveries, never resorting to phony rasping or high-pitched curlicues to put a song across, but always a little behind the beat and always firmly in the background. On this outing, she elegantly negotiates her way through jazz ("Come Love"), country ("Don't You Think I Feel It Too?"), New Orleans blues ("Remember Me"), and flat-out rock & roll ("Feel Like Cryin'"), sounding like she has all the time in the world on every track. An album that deserves a much wider hearing. ~ Cub Koda

Editorial Reviews
Toni Price brings her strong contralto to this disc of original tunes and seldom-heard covers that features a playlist ranging from ballads and torch songs to classic soul and straight-ahead rockers...
Living Blues (19990701)