Soul/funk blues. Uptown blues with horns, soulful vocals and stinging guitar. Original songwriting.

12 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Funky Blues, BLUES: Blues Vocals



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Jones and his band have become a mainstay on the West Coast circuit, and have brought their tasteful, crowd-pleasing brand of music from New Orleans to Canada, from Europe to Australia, and even the Caribbean, where Delbert McClinton witnessed a performance and remarked, "When I heard Lloyd Jones live for the first time in January 1999, it was like exhaling after holding my breath for fifteen years!" It was such a typically memorable set at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival that led Jones' signing by Blind Pig Records.

Jones describes his soulful and intelligent fusion of funk, blues, and R&B as "storytelling with a memphis groove." His latest CD, "Love Gotcha", presents Lloyd's, songwriting at it's trenchant best. His songs have the quality that make them sound as if they have been around as blues standards for years or they seem to have fallen out of some time warp from the golden days of R&B. His approach to the guitar is both economical and rhythmically sophisticated, with a style that can be as delicate as it is devastating. And Jones' accomplished guitar and vocal work are complemented throughout the recording by some of the funkiest horn-rhythm-organ arrangements around.