Picture: Toni Price and guitarist at Armadillo Bazaar today in Austin

"I think people are starved for emotion right now," Price said in 1996... "The world we live in is so stripped of emotion, so harsh, it's like we're made to be numb. I think people want something acoustic, something real. They want wood. They're sick of plastic and metal and fake and violent. Real people need a release from all the harshness..."

Drawing from the wells of country, rock, blues and soul, Price sang plaintive as deeply and intensely as Hank Williams sang lonesome — and she did it at the Continental almost every week.

"Swimming Away"
by Brad Buchholz
Austin American Statesman
June 01, 2007

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