Lloyd Arnold

About

Rockabilly singer Lloyd McCollough was born in 1935 in Memphis. Lloyd Arnold recorded during the Fifties on many labels such as Von, Republic (1956), Starday (1958), Sharp (1960?), Katche (1960), Myers (1961) and Memphis Records (1962). By the second half of the 1960s, Lloyd had completely switched back to country music, for a succession of small labels in Memphis and Nashville. In the late sixties and early seventies a tougher bluesy orientated form of country started to emerge. Lloyd embraced this style with passion. He was now recording for John Capps's K-Ark label in Nashville, which released an excellent album and three singles by him (1972-73). After many years on the road, Lloyd decided it was time to call it a day. He opened a night club, appropriately called "L.A.'s Country", in Memphis and was quite content playing there. But in early 1976, dogged by misfortune and personal problems, Lloyd tragically took his own life. He was only 40 years old.