When novice songwriter and singer Lloyd Price went into a New Orleans recording studio for the first time in the early ‘50s to record “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” which would become his first hit song, he had no idea what to expect. In fact, still in his teens, he’d never even been to New Orleans even though he grew up just outside the city in Kenner, Louisiana.
It’s just one of stories told in “Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical,” a new musical-bio that unspools the many significant experiences of Price’s long, successful career in the music industry and beyond.
