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Loyd Howell

Rockabilly

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Lloyd Howell

Froggy - 1975 [aka Froggy Went a Courtin’ - 1959]

My baby's gone - 1975 [aka They don’t know - 1959]

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LOYD HOWELL • Hl-QRECORDS • 1962 

"Loyd Howell grow up near Nashville around country music. It has always been a part of Ills life. He spent his toon years playing guitar behind a fiddle for square dances on Saturday nights. He is one of the few flat top guitar players of the old Mabel Carter Style. 

At an early age Loyd entered the navy and played clubs wherever possible. After the navy, Loyd married a hometown girl and moved to the Detroit area. Before leaving the Nashville area, Loyd recorded his first record for the Starday Company which released it in 1959 (Nashville *5028) titled "Froggy Went a Courtin' " / "My Babys Gone", (the same masters are used on this record)

Later that year, Loyd and his wife moved to Detroit where he picked up his new band (called the Blue Stars) and recorded a number of demos for the famed Rock-A-Billy Label "Clix" out of Troy, Michigan. Nothing was ever released by Clix so Loyd headed for the Fortune Studios in Detroit in 1962. 

That year Fortune *224 was released with "Rosilita" / "Don't Hang Around". In 1966 Fortune released Loyd's biggest selling record on their Hl-Q Label, "Truck Drivin' Jack" / "Don't Make Me Stop Drinking" (#27). 

In 1972 Loyd became founder and president of "RY-HO" Records out of Romulus, Michigan and released RY-HO #100 "Blue Rose" / "H-A-P-P-Y" as the company’s initial release. Presently Loyd is busy with his new record label and publishing company called "Contree Music Enterprises" while recording and doing club dates around the Detroit area with his son and two daughters always on stage with him. 

Gary Thompson"


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