Lloyd Jones - 2 albums: Doin' What It Takes / Highway Bound

Portland, Oregon roots artist Lloyd Jones has recorded six critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and racked up dozens of major awards and accolades. He’s a relentless road dog, hitting festival stages, Delbert’s annual Sandy Beaches Cruises (he’s been a regular on six winter cruises), and clubs all across the land to enthusiastic crowds who can’t get enough of his swampy blues, his backporch picking, his serious-as-anthrax funk, soul, roadhouse two-beats, and old-school rhythm and blues (back before the R&B tag was somehow appropriated for other musical purposes, apparently when we weren’t looking). Yet he may be the most invisible, best-kept roots/blues/Americana secret on the contemporary scene.

Jones is a master of the soulful understatement, the raw growl, and the groove. From his roots in muddy Oregon soil, he’s forged a 30-plus-year career as an impassioned singer and fierce guitar slinger, a clever and soulful songwriter, a bandleader, record producer, and an almost strident torchbearer for all that’s true and good about America’s music. Jones is his own true artist who works diligently at pushing American roots music forward.

What he does, he says, is “combine New Orleans rhythms, the simplicity of Memphis music, and the rawness of the blues, all for the 21st century. This music is not about louder and faster. It’s about time, meter, groove. I thought Muddy and Walter and those guys were pushing the envelope in their era. They were using effects, they were inventing their own sound. They were modern. I want to look at it in a contemporary way.” The gist is all the same — Lloyd Jones is the total package.

Album: Doin' What It Takes
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:55
Size: 86.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Roots rock
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:55] 1. Bend In The River
[3:32] 2. I'll Be Right On Down
[5:08] 3. Without You
[3:29] 4. Doing What It Takes
[3:10] 5. I Can't Stop
[3:21] 6. Never Again
[4:49] 7. Give A Little
[3:24] 8. My Wife Can't Cook
[2:58] 9. Worried Life Blues
[3:05] 10. Ruby Do

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Album: Highway Bound
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:03
Size: 100.9 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:28] 1. Travelin' On
[3:25] 2. Careless Love
[2:04] 3. When I'm Gone
[2:15] 4. Ice Cream Man
[3:05] 5. Broke Down Engine
[2:20] 6. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
[3:27] 7. Southbound Train
[3:12] 8. No More Crying
[2:33] 9. Don't Want Me Baby
[2:50] 10. Key To The Highway
[1:58] 11. You Better
[2:38] 12. Cry For Me Baby
[3:20] 13. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
[3:01] 14. Good Night Irene
[2:53] 15. Good Morning Little School Girl
[2:26] 16. Lazybones

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