BETTY PRIDE: Cold Hearted Woman

Betty Pride

Cold Hearted Woman

© 2006 Betty Pride (700261201627)

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Betty Pride singing is absolutely mesmerizing. Her style is an electic mix of great blues with a touch of jazz & gospel. Believe me this is a "Jewel"

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All ABOUT
BETTY PRIDE

Twenty years ago, Betty Pride spent time as a jazz and R&B singer. For a while she was even a country/western studio backup singer at Arthur Smith Studios. She also served as a member of Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, and Reflection Sounds Studio as lead R&B singer. Betty sang with many Gospel Groups including “The Famous Southern Sisters”. She did originals such as “I’ve Been Waiting On You Baby” and “This Man I Got” written by musicians who had previously written for Otis Redding and The Isley Brothers. She was offered a recording contract with the Chess Recording Label, but for personal reasons decided not to accept.
She owes her love for music to her father who, during her childhood played blues guitar mostly in Piedmont style. She also learned according to her mother that she is related (albeit distant) to Blind Boy Fuller, one of the most recorded bluesmen in the ’30 known for his versatility, particularly the intricate finger-picking style of Piedmont Blues.
Now Betty is showing the Blues side of her. She has recently written such songs as “Cold Hearted Woman”, “Run Away From Me, and Email Blues. She is one of the hottest around.
Betty and her band has played with and opened for artist such as the World-famous, Nappy Brown, Sandra Hall and Leon Russell and many others.
The BP Ride Blues Band is known as one of the best. Betty says, she has well-seasoned members in her band, some of whom have played with Clarence Carter, Marvin Gaye and the great gospel singer Shirley Caesar.
In November 2005, she and her band completed a successful ten city tour in Italy.
Betty and her band are based in Charlotte, NC. USA

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  • author: Alicia Torres

    I recently met Betty Pride, who told me about her CD, so I decided to check it out! It was one of the best jazz CD's I've ever listened to and hope that she can continue to make many more!!

  • Pride does the blues right
    author: The Charlotte Post by Winfred Cross

    Arts and Entertainment Pride does the blues right Sounds Music Review Published Friday, August 10, 2007 by Winfred Cross, The Charlotte Post Betty Pride Cold Hearted Woman Betty Pride, producer Rating: 3 & 1/2 Stars Blues singers are generally some of the best singers on Earth simply because they’ve lived most of what they sing about. Even if they haven’t they are always convincing enough to make you believe they have. I don’t know anything about Betty Pride’s life other than she can sing the heck out of the blues. She indeed may be the “Cold Hearted Woman” she sings about - or not. That point is moot. She convinces you she’s a cold hearted woman, as mean as she can be. She’s daring some good-looking man to fall in love with her to find out. She, of course, says don’t and tells you all that she’ll do if you do. But she knows her not so coy challenge will be taken, and that’s what she wants. That’s what I call a singer. Pride mixes some standards with her own compositions to come up with a tasty mix of blues, R&B and, for some, beach music. Pride sings in front of a crack backup band that sounds seasoned, but not grizzled. Pride is her own story. She reinvents these older tunes and dazzles on her own stuff. Of particular interest is Bill Withers’ haunting “The Love That Made Me Laugh.” This is one of my favorite Withers tunes and Pride’s version is sassy. She tells her lover “I’m giving all I have to give/If you don’t want me/I don’t want to live.” Pride doesn’t let this party go without sharing. Nappy Brown (“Nighttime Is The Right Time”) drops by on the classic “Stand By Me.” Yeah, it’s been done a zillion times, but good songs are good songs. Brown and Pride do it justice. Blues fans should add this collection without thinking. Those who are just discovering the blues shouldn’t overlook this, either. “Cold Hearted Woman” she may be, but Pride is certainly a singin’ cold hearted woman in her own right. You can buy the CD at www.bettypridemusic4u.com. Send this page to a friend

  • Let this voice slip you back in time and then slide you foward with silky ease
    author: Sharron Stewart

    Being a Boomer never felt so good! Betty Pride takes me back because her voice is real to the great blues singers and the band is what you truly heard at the blues joints. Oh yeah...wonderful! Betty's voice lets you close to the edge of pain and then slides you right over with a craving to get a little closer.. so you listen again...and again!

  • "one of the most talented blues chanteuses it has been my pleasure to hear."
    author: Mick Rainsford/ Blues in Britain Magazine

    COLD HEARTED WOMAN Betty Pride’s career has traversed a wide musical landscape, encompassing jazz, R&B, C&W and gospel – including stints with Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs and The Famous Southern Sisters. But, now her concentration lies with the blues – and what a blues singer she is. “Cold Hearted Woman” is a statement of intent from one of the most talented blues chanteuses it has been my pleasure to hear for some time. Pride is one tough blues cookie. Just listen to her growl out the lyrics on “That’s Alright”. She takes this Jimmy Rogers classic and turns it into a tough slab of R&B replete with rasping sax, rolling piano and fuzzed out guitar – her mean vocals defying anyone to cross her. You had better believe that Pride is one “Cold Hearted Woman”, her overt sexuality and latent menace giving her the demeanour of the “Fatal Attraction” of the blues – the threatening nature of her vocals in stark contrast to Donald Dean’s beautifully understated fretwork. “That’s The Way Love Is” is classic horn-fuelled 60’s Memphis Soul – “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” with it’s anguished vocals, churchy organ and baying horns had me thinking of her as a female Don Covay – whilst “Fever” is given lowdown street blues cred as vocals and sax intertwine seamlessly before Pride scats with guitarist Donald Dean. Pride shows her softer side on a wistful rendition of Bill Withers “The Love That Made Me Laugh”, the sweet soul of Al Bragg’s “Share Your Love With Me” and a deeply soulful workout on Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” – before letting rip on the frantic “Mojo” inspired rocker “Run Away From Me’. The set is closed out with a great version of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, which is given a blues sensibility as Pride duets imperiously with R&B great Nappy Brown. A great singer and a red-hot band. What are you waiting for? Buy It! (www.bettypridemusic4u.com) www.cdbaby.com/cd/bettypride Words 314 Rating 9 Mick Rainsford

  • 10 stars out of 5: CD is a must!
    author: E Rodriguez

    CD it’s just awesome,you won't be disappointed! I couldn’t stop playing it over and over again. Music just flows with such elegant band arrangements, super stylish! Each track sounds sooo different but sooo alike if you know what I mean! Could not wait to create a play list on my iPod! (oh, by the way, I’m a cold hearted woman 2~ I’m definitely part of the club!

  • Cold Hearted Woman is Too Hot to be so Cold
    author: R Meeks

    Now, there's some of what passes for Blues these days and then there is Betty Pride(with Nappy Brown-a QC Legend) and the BP Ride Band. The band is hotter than a burned down Cackalacky juke-joint in mid-August and just as funky and talented. Betty should go ahead and add another letter to the end of her first name( a Q or a Z) just so the Diva status she stands upon(believe me) on this album. I am so scared of the Cold Hearted Woman because you can hear her laughing on her vocals on the self-named track. Now that is COOOOOLD. If you do not enjoy her music, well just don't let it be known, or you may hear the razor-edged slash of her singing,which could slice your Blues into cuts that don't dare bleed. Buy this cd for your own original Blues protection.....you been warned. Waiting on " Cold-Hearted Woman Part II....and putting on more wood on the fire!!! COOOOOLD!

  • Cold Hearted Woamn is Too Hot to be so Cold
    author: R Meeks

    Now, there's some of what passes for Blues these days and then there is Betty Pride(with Nappy Brown-a QC Legend) and the BP Ride Band. The band is hotter than a burned down Cackalacky juke-joint in mid-August and just as funky and talented. Betty should go aahead and add another letter to the end of her first name( a Q or a Z) just so the Diva status she stands upon(believe me) on this album. I am so scared of the Cold Hearted Woman because you can hear her laughing on her vocals on the self-named track. Now that is COOOOOLD. If you do not enjoy her music, well just don't let it be known, or you may hear the razor-edged slash of her singing,which could slice your Blues into cuts that don't dare bleed. Buy this cd for your own original Blues protection.....you been warned. Waiting on " Cold-Hearted Woman Part II....and putting on more wood on the fire!!! COOOOOLD!

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