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Bill Lloyd

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About Me

Bill Lloyd is a Nashville based songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer who is most often remembered as half of the late ‘80’s RCA country-rock duo, Foster and Lloyd. Lloyd’s diverse musical activities run the gauntlet of the music biz. He’s a songwriter (penning cuts by a wide variety of artists that include Trisha Yearwood, Cheap Trick, Sara Evans, Poco , Martina McBride, Marshall Crenshaw and many more), a record producer (ranging from Carl Perkins to MTV reality show indie-rockers, The Secret) and a session player (working with Brit-pop icons Ray Davies of The Kinks and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze to country legends Steve Earle and Buck Owens). As as solo artist, he has recorded a string of critically acclaimed solo records that blend his melodic power pop sensibility with finely tuned songcraft. He’s the Stringed Instrument Curator at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. He’s the music director for the First Amendment Center in Nashville. He also organized and plays in Nashville’s high concept cover band, The Long Players recently profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Website: billlloydmusic.com
Band Members: THE LOWE NUMBERS - 2008
Influences: Beatles-Byrds-Beach Boys-Bacharach-Buffalo Springfield-Buck Owens-Badfinger-Big Star-Kinks-Who-Dylan-Joni-Hank Sr.-Carl Perkins-ElvisCostello-Elvis Presley-NRBQ-The Everly Brothers etc..etc..
Sounds Like: All of the above and none of the above
Record Label: Now: New Boss Sounds Prev: RCA/Warner Bros/Koch..
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hollywood Bowl REDUX

I'm going back to the Hollywood Bowl in a few weeks and playing some guitar and singing some harmonies with one of my favorite bands, Cheap Trick. This Sgt. Pepper with orchestra show was first done i...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:06:00 PST

The Dark Knight/Elf Mash-Up Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5ioQWqdVs ...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:05:00 PST

Cheap Trick @ The Hollywood Bowl (and me)

This coming weekend, I'll be sideman guitarist/bg vocalist with one of my favorite bands, Cheap Trick when they do The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album at The Hollywood Bowl.Read more details at http://www.h...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

Another video link/ Long Players back

There's a lnk to see The Sky Kings video for Picture Perfect athttp://video.aol.com/video/the-sky-kings-perfect-picture-a ka-picture-perfect/1465985We also have another Long Players show coming up soon...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:59:00 PST

MORE YOU TUBING / Foster and Lloyd

A few of the videos from Foster and Lloyd from the late 80's are now up on You Tube. I've not looked at this stuff in years either! Here are the links: Before The Heartache Rolls In http://youtube.com...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:23:00 PST

The Long Players THursday March 15th

Ive had a good many emails from folks who DON'T live in Nashville wanting to come see a Long Players gig. We have a really fun one coming up. Here's the info. The Long Players celebrate Bob Dylan's Hi...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:19:00 PST

I Got YouTubed

Someone sent me a YouTube link awhile back that show an old Austin City Limits where Radney and I and the band were doing Crazy Over You. I kind of figured some of that stuff might surface. As a solo ...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:25:00 PST

what's new

I appreciate all of you checking in here on my new My Space page. It's especially great to reconnect with old friends and acquaintances who are also My Space citizens.Since my first little blog, my ow...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:13:00 PST

Bill Blogging

Thanks to those of you have made comments here..it's all been really nice stuff to hear (so far!) and I look forward to getting more familiar with the whole My Space thing. As of today (July 3), I'm d...
Posted by Bill Lloyd on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:54:00 PST