Thursday, November 5, 2026

Jon Lord


 


































Artist:  Jon Lord
Birth Name:  Jonathan Douglas Lord
Born:   June 9, 1941.  Leicester, England
Died:   July 16, 2012 (Aged 71).  London, England
Genre:  Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Classical Rock, Jazz, Jazz Rock
Occupations:  Musician, Songwriter
Instruments:  Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals

Joh Lord was an English Composer, Pianist and Hammond Organ Player, best-known as Keyboards of one of the best Hard Rock Group Deep Purple, besides his works with Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men.

In 1968,  Joh Lord founded Deep Purple, he wrote the organ riff on "Child In Time", he retired from Deep Purple in 2002.  In 2011, he was granted an Honorary Doctor Of Music Degree by his home town's University of Leicester.  He died on 16th July, 2012 after suffering from pancreatic cancer at the London Clinic.
















Title:  Blues Project (2026)
Genre:  Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Classical Rock, Jazz, Jazz Rock
Label:  earMusic
Rating:   *****

Format:  CD 

Tracks:

 1.  Back At The Chicken Shack (6:15)
 2.  Hoochie Coochie Man (6:29)
 3.  Wishing Well (5:39)
 4.  It Never Rains But It Pours (4:14)
 5.  Fog On The Highway (7:35)
 6.  Lazy (4:51)
 7.  Walkin' Blues (5:48)
 8.  Way Down In The Hole (3:23)
 9.  Houston (Scotland) (4:31)
10. Respect Yourself (6:34)
11. When A Blind Man Cries (5:17)
12. I'm A Man (5:10)

Personnel:

Jon Lord:  Hammond Organ (Deep Purple)
Miller Anderson:  Guitar, Vocals
Maggie Bell:  Vocals
Colin Hodgkinson:  Bass, Vocals
Zoot Money:   Keyboards,Vocals
Pete York:  Drums (Spencer Davis Group, Hardin & York)

Blues Project is a live album by Jon Lord, released on October 2026 by earMusic, recorded live at the Rottwell Jazz Festival in 2011.  Fantastic Blues Album.












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