TONI PRICE - SUNSHINE

Austin Treasure TONI PRICE Live at Cactus Cafe in Austin. With Scrappy Jud, Champ Hood, and Casper Rawls. RIP CHAMP. Toni Price has always approached her music on her own terms, refusing to go on tour, refusing to give up her cherished Tuesday night gig at the Continental Club, even refusing to stand up while she sings. Her casual and relaxed front porch style of delivery don't take any power from her bluesy vocals. In fact, she claims that sitting down to sing actually enhances her vocals because she can "really crunch."

Gwil Owen, an old friend from Toni's Nashville days, has been a mainstay in her music. Owen has written half of Toni's recorded material. His songs are perfect for her voice and soulful delivery. Or maybe it's that her voice is perfect for his songs. Toni fills the Continental Club in Austin Texas every Tuesday evening with shoulder to shoulder fans, some of whom have seen her perform hundreds of times. Inside the dim regions of the Continental, surrounded by posters of herself and dozens of other blues greats, she takes a chair at center stage and sets off on a two hour excursion through rock, country, blues, mountain music, torch songs, and jazzy scat. Her popularity in Austin is a strong part of the foundation bearing Austin up as the live music capital of the world.

A gig at Antone's Blues Club at SXSW in 1989 brought Toni to Austin for the first time. Austin won her over immediately. "It wasn't until I came to Austin that I realized that I wasn't alone in the universe," she says. "I came to understand that I had compadres here - musicians, and audiences - people who wanted and needed real music. I'd been through all the styles, all the gymnastics, without realizing that I was really supposed to just go out and sing - sing songs that had meaning to me." --Excerpt from Music Austin. Additional information can be found at toniprice.com.

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[mabby13]

this is most definitely NOT from the Cactus Cafe, it is from her Austin City Limits performance. I was there.



[worldnation]

166, tell Toni Tony says hi!

[KawaTony1964]

It just kills me that only 165 people have viewed this video, because I think this is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I had it up on my channel for a few months before Austin City Limits had it blocked and forced me to take it down. People: this is LIVE. No editing was done in the studio. This is frickn' awesome. So was that whole episode of Austin City Limits. Toni Price is one of the most underrated artists out there.