"Home Don't Seem Like Home" (1978) Leomia Boyd - Video
PUBLISHED:  May 20, 2016
DESCRIPTION:
This is track 7 of the 1978 album "Just For Today".
Written by Raymond Dozier Sr.
Leomia Boyd was born August 3, 1950 in Aberdeen, MS (Monroe County). She started singing there in Daniel Baptist Church at the age of thirteen.

Some years later, while in in Nashville, Tennessee she met Jimmy Lancaster (owner of One-Stop Records). He was just starting a record label and asked her if she wanted to record. She did, then his label folded and he transferred all of his artists to the Jewel label out of Shreveport, Louisiana. She was with Jewel for two years. She then recorded three albums on the Big D label out of Anderson, Alabama. She then went to Atlanta International Air Records out of Atlanta, Georgia for five years. She then went to Melendo Records out of Jackson, Mississippi for three years.

She was nominated for a Grammy in 1989 for her 1988 album “That’s The Way The Lord Works”. She received several offers to sing Blues, but she turned them all down.

She was married to James Boyd. They have four daughters: Amelia, Danyell, Christy and Misty (twins). She passed away on May 9, 2016 at her home in Aberdeen, MS.
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