Highlights and other lights from the years 2010-2020.

2005: Hmm this new website MySpace seems pretty cool. Maybe using social media will help my music career. Surely no other website will ever replace this & if it does at least these mp3s won't be accidentally deleted someday. [spends 3 years uploading files] 2019: Dangit. Oh well, call me an arctic seed bank cuz i got everything archived.

This is LL's "Lost" album, spanning four phases of his career. The songs were started around 2000-2003 ("All We Want is Your Money" was first performed live by Phantom Power in Blacksburg, Va), and recordings started in earnest in Richmond around 2003. At that point "Beautiful Design" and "Clouds in Our Eyes" had been performed by Escalator, and the remaining 5 tracks had yet to be played live. A financial plan was created to record and release the full album but ultimately fell through. The recordings sat about 85% finished for a few years while LL spent time in the Austin music scene. Some slow progress was made, such as The Hendersons harmonizing on a re-recording of "Where Your Mind Goes." But other projects and one particularly ill-timed accidental data erasure kept the project shelved. In 2006 Partyboobytrap revived "WYMG," "AWWIYM" and "Indefinite," and the short lived LL & Friends later worked up "Everything I Have Belongs to Everyone." In North Carolina in 2017, LL began reworking the material, blending some new recordings with key elements of the album as envisioned in 2003. The result is an intricate portrait of a singer/songwriter over a 15 year/5 band period. The first official edition contains the 8 original songs. The digital edition contains three additional tracks considered for the album, plus alternate versions of album cuts, including a live solo version of "The Only Trick" from Austin's now-defunct Ruta Maya.

Oddities, electronica, and improvisations as varied as the crooked teeth in my skull.

Talking Heads covers performed by Louis Landry, Dana Marks, Jessica Flemming, William Dawson, Shea Broussard, Jaybird O'Berski, and Luis Rodriguez.

Louis Landry and The LL Orchestra present DONTSTOP. The instrumental EP was recorded live on May 11, 2017 at Buffalo Beat Studios in Bahama, NC, by Eric Mrozkowski. Bandleader Louis Landry plays a unique electronic instrument called the "Pocket Piano," made by Critter & Guitari, as well as piano and keyboards. Band members Mrozkowski (drums), Luis Rodriguez (guitar) and Ittai Korman (bass) stretch out on two long cuts: "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough," Michael Jackson's classic 1979 hit reimagined as a retro/futuristic funk jam, and "50/50 Blues," an original piece composed for the group's recent residency with Duke University's Theater Studies Department.

JJ VS THE DIGITAL WHALE is a classic rock concept album in the style of Pink Floyd's "Animals" or Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi." It tells the ancient story of Jonah and the Whale through a modern lens. Jonah becomes "JJ," while the whale is portrayed as the constant barrage of electronics, media, and technology which surround us all. Through this device, the narrative transcends its roots in Christian, Jewish and Islamic culture and offers new perspective on connections in our disconnected world.