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"Talk Memphis is Toni Price`s best album since 2001`s Midnight Pumpkin. Not that Price puts out bad or mediocre LPs. That`s never been an option for the sultry vocalist who`s stolidly refused to compromise the homey vision of her music. Naturally a lack of touring has limited Price`s national profile, but that`s only made the singer a wonderful discovery for those who mine her rich blues and roots-rock. Though she`s departed Austin for new digs in California, Talk Memphis is a total Austin production right down to longtime producer Derek O`Brien. Evoking the geography of its title, the album Stax the deck with the soulful undertones that have always been her stock-in-trade, burnished with the Texas Horns` powerful punch and tip o` the Stetson to McLemore Avenue. As always, Price`s exquisite ear for songs matches her sublime alto to crystalline perfection... 3.5 STARS" Margaret Moser, austinchronicle.com (Texas Music Group)
