Personnel:
P. Ann Everson-Price,lead vocals
Ira Woods, guitar (1)
Albert "Woo" Wilkerson, bass (1)
Sonny Talbert, organ (1)
Bruce Stahlworth, drums (1)
Ted Karas, guitar (2,4,5,6,7)
Pat Kelly, piano, organ (2,3,4,5,6,7)
Michael Sharfe, bass (2,4,5,6,7)
Randy Winters, drums (2,4,5,6,7)
David Hymer, guitar (3,8,9)
David Stewart, piano, organ (3,8,9)
Carlton Tolliver, bass (3,8,9)
D. J. Burel, drums (3,8,9)
Stan Ginn, congas (5,6,7,8)
Scotty Anderson, guitar (special guest - track 7)
Gary Winters, trumpet (2,3,4,7)
Steve Hoskins, tenor sax (2,3,4,7) & soprano sax (5)
Paul Piller, trombone (3,4,7)
Joe Gaudio, baritone sax (3,4,7)
BRIEF NOTES
(Photo by Ann Segal)
(Excerpted from liner notes of Killer Love by Kathy Y. Wilson)
This, the solo recorded debut of Gospel Blues belter P. Ann Everson-Price, is like Aretha first dipping her Detroit Gospel toe into the world’s secular pool.
It’s exciting, long awaited and rife with that same contained sexuality percolating beneath the surface; it’s seasoned with the same kind of growling and slinking singing Tina Turner turned on the world once she emerged from the Southern churches of her girlhood. P. Ann’s knock-down, drag-out delivery and presentation hovers between the majesty and pageantry of Gospel legends Albertina Walker, Tramaine Hawkins and Shirley Caesar and the roadhouse, juke joint Color Purple (the Hollywood version) type of singing that needs blasting horn sections, crying guitars and thundering drums.
This dichotomy, this pull, this ageless battle for the soul of Saturday night sinners slinking into Sunday morning pews is the genius of P. Ann captured fully and beautifully here on Killer Love...
P. Ann’s a natural...
Killer Love contains covers of songs anybody who knows P. Ann would never associate with her repertoire. However, they are infused, in that grand Everson-Price tradition, with all the soul, emotion and drama of the show-stopping P. Ann I first saw sing in a church and not a club.
Kathy Y. Wilson is a columnist for Cincinnati CityBeat, a commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and the author of: Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths In Black & White (Emmis Books).
QUOTES
“P. Ann Everson-Price sings with a passion and purpose that is always on. Her intensity shows her dedication to her craft and complete desire to express the gift that God has so graciously given her. We are all the more blessed to hear her voice.”
Reggie Calloway - Grammy Award Winner, Entertainer/ R & B writer and producer
"Killer Love is an exceptional project of original and classic tunes of the past. P. Ann's vocals and the energy she brings forth are truly fabulous…”
Luther Barnes - 2004 Grammy Award Nominee, Psalmist/Writer/Producer
“P. Ann is not only my friend but a fellow artist who's long overdue. The industry is in for a special treat.”
Ann Nesby: Actress/Songwriter/Performer, former lead singer for "The Sounds of Blackness," 2004 Grammy Nominee
“The wonderful voice of P.Ann Everson-Price on her CD, Killer Love, is tremendous. I love it. This versatile singer deserves a place in the music world that goes beyond one genre. A singer as talented as P. Ann should be universal.”
Bobby Jones, Ph.D. - Black Entertainment Television, The Word Television Network, The Sheridan Broadcasting Network
“No vocalist from Cincinnati can deliver a lyric like P. Ann. As for her voice, let me put it this way – she has better chops than my Steakhouse."
Jeff Ruby – noted impresario and restauranteur
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