About L.A.M.P

I'm often asked who's in your band.  My normal answer: "What is my band" 

Lyrics Abound is more of a project than a band. 

There is one constant member, Rudy Harrell (me). 

 

I write the lyrics, music, and create the melodies.  However, I can't sing. 

So once I've created an idea of how I want a song to "feel"  I then try to find

the right voice to sing it.  That is the hardest part.  Finding the right voice to

pull everything together.  I was born and raised in Lexa, Arkansas,

music was a passion of mine from an early age. 

 

Living down south I was molded by the sounds of the great blues bands that made

up the "Chitlin Circuit", Sam Cook, Aretha Franklin, BB Kings, Ray Charles,

Otis Redding to name a few that worked the circuit. 

 

They all told stories with their music and amazingly you can still hear their music

being played and sampled today -- Thats because it was GOOD. 

 

I used to listen to these bands on the banks of the Mississippi River in Helena Arkansas at the annual Blues Festivals.   I was amazed at how these musician only wanted a platform for their music to be heard. 

 

They wanted to tell stories with their lyrics; poems with their music; and their biographies through songs.  After leaving home and joining the military at age 18, I was provided an opportunity to listen and appreciate music from genres that would never have been played down south. 

 

My world view of music change. 

 

I  quickly realized that there is no such thing as bad music, only music I don’t listen to. 

 

So I started writing my own music, which has been influenced from traveling all over the world and listening to music from every genre imaginable.  And today, I believe I’m finding my own style. 

 

I want to tell stories about love, breakup, making up, surviving, healing and happiness, in other words ideas and feeling we can all relate to. 

 

That’s what I intend to do through my Lyrics Abound  Music Projects. (L.A.M.P.) shed light on good music. 

 

Give me three and half minutes and I will tell you an entire story.