Betty Pride is a singer with traditional gospel influences who goes into any musical style with conviction, self-confidence and honesty For more than twenty years she has sung jazz, blues, rhythm & blues and even country & western music During those years she received offers to record for Chess Records, but personal reasons prevented her to do so On this cd Betty Pride shows us her most bluesy side, on a custom made album She shines in her own right on ten superb imaginative songs performed with great feeling Her band, The BP Ride Blues Band, have an impressive efficient sound with high quality horn and keyboards arrangements and a deluxe guest musician, blues shouter tradition singer Nappy Brown, who appears on Ben E King’s and Leiber & Stoller’s song Stand By Me An excellent new work of the amazing Charlotte, North Carolina settled singer, known as Ms Betty Pride