Bill Lloyd - Look Into It (2023)

Bill Lloyd is a Nashville based Grammy nominated songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, often remembered as half of the late ‘80’s RCA country-rock duo, Foster and Lloyd. Between 1987 and 1990, the duo charted nine singles on the Billboard country charts with their their debut single, "Crazy Over You” being the first debut single by a country duo to reach #1 on the Radio & Records chart. Lloyd’s diverse musical activities include working as a producer (ranging from Carl Perkins to MTV reality show indie-rockers, The Secret), a session player (backing Brit-pop icons like Ray Davies of The Kinks, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze and Ringo Starr) to country legends (Buck Owens and Steve Earle), a hired-gun sideman (Poco, Marshall Crenshaw and with Cheap Trick when they performed The Beatles Sgt. Pepper with orchestra) and as a songwriter (with songs cut by Trisha Yearwood, Graham Gouldman, Martina McBride, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Sara Evans, Hootie and the Blowfish, Pure Prairie League and many more). He has recorded a string of critically acclaimed solo records that blend his melodic power pop sensibility with finely tuned song craft. During his stint as the Stringed Instrument Curator at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, he helped create and host over forty programs of the quarterly series Nashville Cats. He was the music director for the First Amendment Center’s Freedom Sings program 1999-2019. He also organized and plays in Nashville’s high concept cover band, The Long Players profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered. In 2019, Project: Ghost Outfit with Tom Petersson, Adam Shoenfeld and Keith Brogdon was digitally released. His most recent solo recordings can be found on both the Spyderpop label (Lloyd*ering in 2016 and Working the Long Game in 2018) and his own imprint, Whole In One (2GTRSBSDRMS in 2019 and Don’t Kill the Messenger in 2020). Following the passing of friend and bandmate from The Sky Kings (Rusty Young) in 2021, Lloyd and Poco members Jack Sundrud, Tom Hampton, Michael Webb and Rick Lonow have formed a new Americana group called Cimarron 615 and currently making an album for the Blue Elan record label.