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| Orkney Today 27/08/04 |
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| "
Pete Price is a widely travelled musician with many tales to tell
of his experiances in different countries and his diverse musical
influences. On Saturday night he took the Gable end theatre audience with him on a journey across continents, with mystical music from the Ganges dealta, and melodious Portuguese/Brazilian maxixe, tunes created for the Uillean pipes and Celtic harp. Hawaiian hula influences and, of course, the music he is most associated with, the blues of deep south of America. The ease with which he moved between the delicate, complex harmonies of the 'Son des Carillos' and the suberb rendition of 'Angie' by Davy Graham, to the gritty realism of early blues numbers by Robert Johnson and Blind Willie Mctell, highlighted his versatility and mastery of his Gibson acoustic and Beltona resophonic guitars. And then, there was his voice.Definatly born to sing the blues, with a power that can blow yer socks off when he is belting out those early American classics like 'Crossroads' and 'Mama T'aint Long 'Fore Day' and yet, in the next breath, he's husky and hushed whilst he sings the love songs of Lonnie Johnson and Tom Waits. As a highly accomplished gutarist, he has the grace, dexterity and composure to perform beautifully intricate classical instrumentals, interspersing them with raucous, hard-hitting vocal numbers, often introduced in his northen English, flat-vowelled gravel voice. Incongruous, maybe, but the conbination works brilliantly. Pete shared with the audience the fondness for Orkney and its folk and the sense of warmth he always feels each time he visits.the audience reciprocated with bursts of loud applause after his every tune. He also performed a composition of his own, 'Three Ladies of Hoy'- a set of pipe tunes comprising an air, a slip jig, and a real, which got everyones feet tapping in appreciation. Many of the Gable End audience have heard Pete Price's music on his previous visits to Orkney and I think its safe to say he will always be warmly welcomed back." |
| The Orcadian 26/08/04 |
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| ".......-this
bluesman is more than a one trick pony!! With a rich powerful voice and mind-boggling finger-picking skills on his guitars,it would be easy to watch him play in awe, but the senseof empathy he created with the Hoy audience through his down -to -earth attitude and dry wit gave the whole audience an approachable feel.......an inspiring evening of entertainment all round." |
| The Guardian |
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| “An acoustic blues virtuoso” |
| Bob Tilling - Blueprint Magazine |
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| “Acoustic County Blues performed to great effect...(he) gives them a stamp which is very much his own. A set that will fo no harm to this man’s already growing reputation” |
| Feedback Magazine |
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| “An acoustic guitar maestro...tasty guitar playing, a strong traditional blues voice; he succeeds magnificently” |
| Lowcountry Bluesbash, South Carolina, USA |
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| “Mesmerising...don’t miss!” |
| Yorkshire Evening Post |
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| “Went down a storm...his music sends shivers down my spine!” |
| Manchester City Life |
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| “Not only is the man a gifted performer and interpreter of classic pre-war blues, his journeys into other strange, exotic and haunting musical forms are capable of eliciting whoops of joy from his listener |
| www.musikkavisen.no |
| International Guitar Festival of Great Britain |
'I
went down to the crossroad.........I went down to Birkenhead town
hall and saw the gifted Peter Price playing some soulful and moody
blues. He continued with a Brazilian dance tune then a uniquely
beautiful version of psalm 21 before informing the near full house
that he was 'returning to the devils music." |