Birth name Walter Travis Price Labels Peacock Records Movies Sugar Hill Instruments Piano, vocals Genres Texas blues | Role Singer Also known as Thunderbird Name Big Price Albums Get to Gittin' | |
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Born August 2, 1914
Gonzales, Texas, United States ( 1914-08-02 ) Died March 7, 2012, Houston, Texas, United States Similar People Big Walter Horton, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, The Main Ingredient, J Geils | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
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Big Walter Price (2 August 1917 − 7 March 2012) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.
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Born near Gonzales, Texas, he moved to San Antonio, where he released his first song called "Calling Margie" in 1955. In 1955 he moved to Houston, where he lived until his death. In the 1960s he signed with Peacock Records and released several of his singles. His song "Pack Fair and Square" was covered by the J. Geils Band on the J. Geils Band album.
He died in 2012 aged 94 (though he claimed 97).
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