On Independence Day 1987, with a whirl of twang and jangle called “Crazy Over You,” the duo of Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd made its country radio debut.
Soon, Foster & Lloyd were the first country duo in history to ride a debut single to No. 1. Over the subsequent three years, they scored five Top 20 country hits and a Grammy nomination, made three albums of music that Rolling Stone called “the flowering of a generation,” played genre-melding shows with Roy Orbison, the Beach Boys and The Everly Brothers, inspired future hit-makers Keith Urban and Darius Rucker and became poster children for the hip, rock-informed, country-inflected music scene during what Steve Earle called the town’s “great credibility scare.”
And then, in 1990, while George W. Bush’s daddy was president and just before the Internet became publicly available, Foster & Lloyd disbanded. More than 20 years later, the duo is back with a new album, a press campaign, a website and a tour schedule that includes forthcoming shows at the CMA Music Festival, The Bluebird Cafe, Music City Roots at the Loveless Cafe and the Grand Ole Opry.
