DI ANNE PRICE & HER BOYFRIENDS: Reekin' With Love

Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends

Reekin' With Love

© 2002 Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends

CD permanently out of stock. Sorry!

Genuine Memphis Music - Blues from a woman's point of view.

tracks

1 Key To The Highway
2 Keep Sittin' On It
3 Elaine
4 If You're A Viper
5 You Better Help Your New Woman
6 Waitin' and Drinkin'
7 I Need Your Love So Bad
8 My Man Stands Out
9 I Want To Be Seduced
10 Baby, You've Got What It Takes
11 Too Many Drivers
12 Reekin' With Love
13 I Ain't Drunk, I Just Drinkin'
14 Goin' Down Slow
15 Black Cat Blues
16 Spinach Medley
17 The Key Hole Song

notes

At the corner of College Street and Walker Avenue in Soulsville USA in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee, there's a building that was once an ice cream factory. The building is old now, the lettering and colors on its clapboard walls faded, its awnings crooked with age. It is an imposing building, beautiful and mysterious, with a patina that transcends time. Each time I pass the building, I stop and think of only one thing: What if the building were slightly refurbished and had a magnificent red neon sign glowing with the word, "Di Anne's." It would be Di Anne Price's martini/piano bar, where each night she would greet her loyal guests and sing in the way only she can while playing a grand piano by the light of a single candle. In fact, candlelight would be the only light in the club, with one placed at each large, rounded velvet booth. Di Anne would walk among the crowd in a long, low-cut black evening gown with beautiful diamond earrings. She would know most everyone by first name, and learn the first names of the numerous tourists drawn to the club. And with her voice, her aura, and the natural ease of her heart she would fill the room with love and during those moments, the world outside would not exist. Few do, but Di Anne Price possesses that kind of magic, both with her timeless voice and her unforgettable presence. Flanked by her band, he Boyfriends -- with Tom Lonardo on drums, Tim Goodwin on bass, and the incomparable Jim Spake sending his mesmerizing saxophone notes soaring to the sky -- Di Anne Price and Her Boyfriends would alternately bring the house to its feet with bawdy jazz and blues symphonies and melt the crowd back down with heart-tugging romantic torch songs. With each song on this new magnificent compilation, I take my self to Di Anne's, and the world outside indeed ceases to exist for that heavenly time. -- Tim Sampson


If there's a finer interpretive singer than Price anywhere else on the planet right now, please let me know. As it is, the fact that this local treasure can be seen pretty much any week of the year, usually for free, is a better reason to be thankful you live in Memphis than anything else I can think of.
by Chris Herrington, The Memphis Flyer, January 11, 2001

reviews

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  • Reekin with love
    author: Mike L.

    Great CD. Blues at its finest.

  • Wonderful blues songs. Super blues piano.
    author: Martin A.

    Di Anne! I love you! Come to France and teach me to play the blues!

  • I got the CD
    author: Denice

    I really thought this CD was great, it is just what I remembered about this artists music. Love the blues! Thanks for making great music!

  • Great performances by a great artist. My firends all want it, but they gaotta bu
    author: Cajun Mike

    Great performances by a great artist. My firends all want it, but they gotta buy their own.

  • author: Gordon Garecht

    Buy this CD, Put it in the player, Grab someone and dance around the house!

  • An amazing piece of work!
    author: Mark Robinson

    I bought this CD on the strength of a review in Blues Revue magazine. Having never heard of Di Anne Price before, I picked it up after sampling some of the tracks, and I wasn't disappointed. A fabulous mix of piano blues and jazz, Di Anne's seductive vocals and the backing of the Boyfriends gel together perfectly. Standout songs include Elaine, My Man Stands Out, the title track, and Black Cat Blues, but the entire CD is very listenable. Enough so to make me search out and purchase the other titles she has available on CD Baby. Check this CD out, you won't be disappointed.

  • Red-Hot, Grooving and Totally Infectious!
    author: Allen Bardin

    Ms. Di Anne Price celebrates the heritage of the classic blues singers once again! Her raspy vocals and cat-house piano give new life to those swaggering & strutting tunes that would have shocked our grandmothers! The original tunes are just as good, and her back-up trio smokes...

  • Another 5 Stars for Di Anne and Her Boyfriends
    author: Ann E. Hackerman

    What can I say? This CD is probably the most eclectic and versatile, displaying the wide range of vocal and keyboard skills of this remarkable performer. Enhanced by Her Boyfriends, Di Anne Price reveals her craft at its best when she tears up and seemingly makes the keys of the grand piano smoke in 'Reekin' With Love.' She and the Boyfriends honor the legendary Memphis Minnie with Black Cat Blues, and pays homage to violence of a forgotten time in Elaine, Arkansas. I highly recommend this CD to anyone that loves blues and jazz.

  • This was so good I had to buy extras to share.
    author: Suzanne Koenig

    The husband of a friend had Di Anne play at his wife's surprise birthday party. I could not be there but one of the party-goers was positive I would appreciate this talent. I appreciated it so much that I had to order extra copies to give to friends. Her voice is top-notch and the lyrics are wonderful. I really liked the range of songs and have to say the humor in a couple of them appeals to my dry type of wit. I will continue to buy copies to share with people who have good taste in music.

  • author: Bill Ellis The Commercial Appeal

    No one in town commands a seasoned barrelhouse blues or a jazz strut better than phenomenal pianist/ singer Di Anne Price and her quality Boyfriends - saxophonist Jim Spake, bassist Tim Goodwin and drummer Tom Lonardo. On their latest, "Reekin' with Love" (Jazzoid Records, 4 stars), Price and pals cover such classics associated with Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Liggins and Memphis Minnie as Key to the Highway, Too Many Drivers, I Ain't Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin' and Black Cat Blues, not to mention you get a truly amazing take of the Bob Howard gem If You're a Viper. Add a few choice originals, including the topical triumph Elaine (about the brutal Elaine, Ark., race riot and massacre of 1919) and the rollicking Jerry Lee Lewis-inspired title track, and you have another priceless album by Di Anne Price!

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