Getting Bloodshot back on its feet took time, Hansen said, because, unlike the other legacy labels Exceleration acquired, the label had a fractious demise before being sold. Earle’s entire output on Bloodshot will get color vinyl editions and Wayne Hancock’s “A-Town Blues” will be issued for the first time on vinyl. This year alone Bloodshot will reissue vinyl versions of “Gone Away Backwards” by Fulks, “A Man Under the Influence” by Escovedo, “Wreck Your Life” by the Old 97s, and “Somewhere Else” by Loveless. Among those releasing new Bloodshot albums this year are Lydia Loveless, Scott Biram and Jason Hawk Harris, all artists formerly on the label, and the Watson Twins, a new signing.īesides the new music, Bloodshot is underway with an extensive reissue campaign of some of the label’s most successful releases. Bloodshot will have expanded distribution globally, except for Canada, through a worldwide deal with Redeye, Hansen said. The label’s social media channels are also newly active. Hansen said Bloodshot’s online store is being rebuilt to sell the back catalog and a new website will be relaunched soon. Howard Greynolds, a Chicago-based artist manager (Iron & Wine, Lydia Loveless, Glen Hansard) and Kenny Schnurstein, a Los Angeles-based artist manager (JD McPherson) are both handling day-to-day operations for the label, including serving as A&R representatives to scout new talent. “We love putting out new music and we think we have opportunity, the resources, and the team to do it. “What we loved about Bloodshot was it was country with a punk rock attitude.
It is one of five new albums Bloodshot is set to release this year, said Dave Hansen, an Exeleration principal.
But this month it is releasing “Music Man,” a new album by Layng Martine Jr., a veteran Nashville songwriter who has written hits for legends like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, and the Pointer Sisters, among many others. In 2021, 27 years after its first release, label co-founders Nan Warshaw and Rob Miller sold Bloodshot to Exceleration Music, a global investment group that either owns the catalogs of or has strategic partnerships with other legacy labels like Alligator Records and Kill Rock Stars.Īt the time, Exceleration said it planned to largely manage and monetize Bloodshot’s back catalog. Chicago’s Bloodshot Records was a powerful and pioneering force in the alt-country movement of the 1990s and beyond, defining the genre with a roster of breakthrough artists including the Robbie Fulks, Old 97s, Alejandro Escovedo, the Waco Brothers, Neko Case, Justin Townes Earle, and the Bottle Rockets.
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