Something tells me that Toni Price learned something from
\nlabelmate Candye Kane.<\/p>\n
Price’s last effort, the live
\nSol Power<\/i>, showed an artist who seemed to champion acoustic
\ncountry with both touches of blues and twang in the music. Around
\nthe same time, on Kane’s
\nDiva La Grande<\/i>, Price and Kane duetted on a twangy version
\nof Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin'”.<\/p>\n
Now, on Price’s latest studio effort
\nLow Down And Up<\/i>, a lot of the country twang is gone (or at
\nleast is hidden very well), and has been replaced with a sound
\nthat’s almost lounge-like in tone – not unlike Kane’s sound. It’s a
\nchange that takes a long time to get used to, and it’s not the
\neasiest disc to sit through. But once you’re able to get through
\nit, Price proves to hold her own quite well in this department.<\/p>\n
The actual sound of this disc is incredibly soft – so soft, in
\nfact, that I found it almost impossible to concentrate on it if I
\nwere doing something else. It took me about seven attempted listens
\nto get through this whole disc once; that’s the kind of investment
\nof time I don’t think many listeners will have to invest, much less
\nbe willing to.<\/p>\n
Once you’ve broken past this first barrier, Price shows that she
\nseems to know what she’s doing with this stylistic move. Tracks
\nlike “Foolin’ Around,” “Don’t You Think I Feel It To?”, “Remember
\nMe?” and “Lonesome Wind” all show that her vocal power isn’t
\ndiminished just because the volume knob has been turned down a
\nnotch or two.<\/p>\n
Yet there’s still a part of me that misses the gentle hillbilly
\nstyle of her music – and I use the term “hillbilly” in a positive
\nway. The music I heard on
\nSol Power<\/i> suggested that Price had tapped into a more rural
\nform of country-folk that isn’t often heard in the marketplace, and
\nwhile it was a sound that needed time to grow on the listener, it
\nwas a pleasant experience overall. Not that
\nLow Down And Up<\/i> is a negative experience, but it sometimes
\nfeels like Price has purposely stepped away from those country-folk
\nroots. The closest I heard her come, on tracks like “Out The Front
\nDoor,” sounded a lot like Bonnie Raitt.<\/p>\n
Still, Price’s switch to a smoother sound could be the key to
\nwinning a broader fan base. Tracks like “Rusty Old Red River” and
\n“Loserville Blues” are sure to increase interest in her, and it
\nwouldn’t be unjustified.<\/p>\n
Price might no longer be the country balladeer that people grew
\nto know on
\nSol Power<\/i>, but she shows on
\nLow Down And Up<\/i> that she is still a force to be dealt with
\nin the music industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5922],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-38923","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-toni-price","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38923"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}