Loyd Howell

Loyd Howell was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee to a family of no great musical ambition. Beginning at the age of eight with a Gene Autry cowboy guitar, Loyd developed his music, first at the square dances in and around Waynesboro, then progressing to venues in Detroit where he later lived. He was said to play in the style of Maybelle Carter who "picked melody on the lower strings and strummed chords on the higher strings."