Lazer Lloyd
Tel Aviv - Israel
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Lazer Lloyd is a genre-defying artist whose
self-titled new CD on Lots of Love Records topped the blues-rock
charts through the summer of 2015 bringing comparisons to Santana at
his best from Elmore Magazine’s sage Jim Hynes and “Muddy Waters on
electric steroids” from veteran Canadian music arts journalist,
Bob Mersereau. Downbeat Magazine praised Lazer’s “exuberant vocals and
razor sharp guitar”. Vintage Guitar magazine featured him as a talent
to watch “showing off his chops on tough blues-rockers, soul ballads,
and funky Hendrix-inspired rock”.
Whether smoking hot or meditative, Lloyd’s unique style is forged
through the white-hot furnace of his three insatiable loves:
songwriting, guitar, and communicating with the audience. At the core
he notes is, “Blues, roots rock, folk, it’s real; it’s about
everyone’s life story and it heals.”
The trailblazing singer/songwriter’s live shows and his brand of blues
and psychedelic roots rock are legendary in his home base Israel. He
is now blowing down the doors of clubs and festivals worldwide. Major
influences include BB King, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray
Vaughn, Johnny Winter, Santana, and Middle Eastern oud.
“It’s one thing to be a student of the blues, which began as gospel,
and it’s another to be able to release the emotion to make it
authentic. Lazer Lloyd does both.” Tim Parsons, Editor “Tahoe On
Stage”
“Fasten your seatbelts!” wrote 1970s Rolling Stone rock music sage
Gary von Tersch, “I’m impressed by Lazer’s tightly composed
compositions”, “deeply expressive writing, plangent vocals and
crackerjack guitar and harmonica work”.
Lazer Lloyd was born in New York and raised in Connecticut surrounded
by his father’s jazz and blues records. Family trips to jazz festivals
and concerts, including Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughn, inspired him to
follow a musician’s path. By age 15 he was playing lead guitar along
the East Coast with his first band a garage rock unit called Legacy.
He started singing and writing songs while a music major at Skidmore
College and studied under greats such as Ellington’s bassist Milt
Hinton and Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Randy Brecker.
After graduating he formed The Last Mavericks and scraped together
funds to produce a demo. An exec at Atlantic Records heard it
and organized to send Lloyd to Nashville to record with producer Garry
Tallent (E-Street Band). However, his life took a vastly different
direction when Lloyd was moved to accept an invitation by
singer/songwriter Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach to relocate his life and
musical career to Israel.
In 1994 Lloyd started a decade of performing and recording with the
psychedelic Israeli jam band Reva L’Sheva. Continuing solo work on the
side, Lazer began to attract international attention with his
self-released folk-rock CD “Higher Ground” in 2004. His blues-rock
power trio Yood expanded the ripples capturing fans with “Passin’
Over” (2007) and “Real People” (2008). In 2011 he put out “Lazer Lloyd
Unplugged”, “Blues in Tel Aviv”, and the Hebrew song collection
“Haneshama”. Then Lloyd’s 2012 “My Own Blues” electric release was
named best blues album by the Israeli Blues Society and sent to the
Memphis International Blues Competition.
Blues Leaf Records in Deal, NJ issued a Lazer Lloyd acoustic album,
“Lost on the Highway” in August 2013, bringing in radio promoter Rick
Lusher to expand airplay and charting in North America, Europe and
beyond. His touring picked up steam with the addition of manager Yo
Seidman. On June 9th 2015, the CD dropped on the Chicago-based Lots
of Love Records label with PR support from Mark Pucci and radio
promotion from Lusher. Rave reviews for “Lazer Lloyd” flowed in from
around the world, it was in the top 3 on the RMR blues rock chart the
entire summer holding in the top 10 through 2015, and peaked at #4 on
the RMR blues chart. Lloyd's management and his label Lots of Love
Records in Chicago are currently preparing a global tour for 2016
including clubs and festivals in the USA, Canada, and Europe.
As always - Lazer is writing songs daily surrounded by his wife and
five kids in their home outside Jerusalem. Share your story with him
Discography
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Lazer LloydLabel: Lots of Love Genres: Blues Styles: Blues Rock Songs on the Album
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Insides outLabel: Self Release Genres: Blues Styles: Blues Rock Songs on the Album
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Lost on the HighwayLabel: Blues Leaf Records Genres: Blues Styles: Blues Rock Songs on the Album
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