Ex-Convict Lloyd W. Sutton Is a Man On a Mission

Online, August 11, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The overconfident attitude and jail time may have tarnished this youthful phenomenon's upstart. But think of it as potential that has yet to be measured by the appropriate gauge. He's reconfigured the pulse of traditional melodies and is single-handily changing the course of conventional harmony.

It can be hard to hear Lloyd W. Sutton through the static of the last few years of his life, when he became a self-parodying caricature: The arrest, the truth and lies, jail time, along with a few incoherent confrontations. Sutton's a man who has worked his way up from nothing and almost single-handily changed the course of conventional music. A scrapper from early on, he went to prison for cheats. Serving nearly two years on those and various other charges as well. While incarcerated he began studying the music business avidly, wrote hundreds of songs and penned four books from start to finish. Lloyd W. Sutton considers himself a freethinker, determined not to let others decide his fate.

Rooted and grounded in traditional soul, Lloyd W. Sutton noticed a striking resemblance in the sound. The negative acuity and declining record sells forced him into deep thought. "How can I change the way they look at us? Why hasn't anyone climbed this mountain before? Here we have the origin of black music at the threshold of extinction and we're sitting around watching it as it breathes its last breathe." he says. Lloyd stripped away everything but the beat, turned his voice and all his band's instruments into spiritual sophisticated performers and is forcing the rest of black American music to scramble to catch up. "I packed my things and moved out of that gated community that most people live in. I think that the whole world needs to be exposed to this beautiful genre of music." he says, self-assured he's the man for the job.

From 1997-2003 he indisputably admit he's had frequent run-ins with the law, but acknowledges his mistakes and has made good on his most recent promise. In a statement released while in prison, Lloyd W. Sutton alleged that someday my message of faith, hope and keeping your dreams alive would oneday be heard around the world. And today it's slowly but surely coming to past. He says, "We need big, bold, dramatic change, not just small change. We need leaders, not followers to keep this thing we call authentic soul music alive."

Of course we must remember that while the music may be anointed, the industry is fueled by dollars and cents. But for LWS to shape his label 105RL which is distributed by REDEYE Music Distribution from a prison cell, and single-handily take an eccentric approach into the music industry and show us that there is no formula for what touches us and by no means should we allow life trials get us down is truly worth mentioning. However, even a man with as much charisma and faith as Lloyd W. Sutton admits that it's going to be a daunting task to revive a genre of music that left in the late 70s but he openly says, "I'm up for the challenge." Like the rest of the world, I guess we'll all have to wait around to see what happen.

While Sutton's first single 'Looking For A Love" a remake of 'The Valentinos' R&B classic has received rave reviews from industry execs and higher ups, it is still certainly too early to tell if Sutton will be able to revive and give authentic soul new life. But one thing is for sure, Lloyd W. Sutton is definitely not afraid to try.