Bloodshot Records is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 based in Chicago, Illinois

Illinois

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 which specializes in roots

Traditional music

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-inflected indie rock

Indie rock

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, punk blues

Punk blues

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, and a Chicago brand of outlaw country

Outlaw country

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. It was established in 1994 by Nan Warshaw, who earned her masters degree from Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago

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 the same year, and Rob Miller, who had earned his masters degree from DePaul University

DePaul University

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 in 1993.

Bloodshot Records is the record label of the Illinois based corporation, Bloodshot Ltd.
The label had planned to release a 10th anniversary DVD in 2004, but it was not released until late 2006.

Artists

Listed alphabetically

• Ryan Adams
  Ryan Adams
  David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
  
  
• Bobby Bare, Jr.
  Bobby Bare, Jr.
  Bobby Bare, Jr. is an American musician who has recorded several solo albums, along with two albums with his band, Bare, Jr....
  
  
• Scott H. Biram
  Scott H. Biram
  Scott H. Biram, aka Scott Biram, SHB, Hiram Biram, or The Dirty Old One Man Band is an American blues, punk and country music musician, based in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Blacks
  The Blacks (band)
  The Blacks were and insurgent country band from Chicago, IL. They released two albums through Bloodshot Records.-Career:...
  
  
• The Bottle Rockets
  The Bottle Rockets
  The Bottle Rockets are an American rock band formed in 1992, currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. The founding members are Brian Henneman , Mark Ortmann , Tom Parr and Tom Ray . Current members are Henneman, Ortmann, John Horton and Keith Voegele...
  
  
• Paul Burch
  Paul Burch
  Paul Burch is a Washington, D.C.-born musician, songwriter and producer. Burch moved to Nashville in the early '90s where he began singing in the city's '50s-era honky tonks, garnering the attention of Marianne Faithfull and Chet Atkins...
  
  
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Cordero
• The Deadstring Brothers
  The Deadstring Brothers
  The Deadstring Brothers are an alt-country/rock band from Detroit, Michigan who play in a style somewhat reminiscent of the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street...
  
  
• The Detroit Cobras
  The Detroit Cobras
  The Detroit Cobras are an American garage rock cover band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1994.-History:The Detroit Cobras signed with Sympathy for the Record Industry and released their first full-length album, Mink Rat or Rabbit, in 1998...
  
  
• Devil In A Woodpile
  Devil in a Woodpile
  Devil in a Woodpile is a band from Chicago, Illinois. Although they routinely give a fresh sound to 80-year old songs, their repertoire and instrumentation categorizes them as a country blues or jug band.-History:...
  
  
• Dollar Store
• Justin Townes Earle
  Justin Townes Earle
  Justin Townes Earle , son of Steve Earle, stepson of Allison Moorer, and named for songwriter Townes Van Zandt is an AMA winning, Americana musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Earle is signed to Bloodshot Records and has four released albums from 2007–2010...
  
  
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
  
  
• Firewater
• Gore Gore Girls
  Gore Gore Girls
  Gore Gore Girls are an all female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1997 by singer/songwriter Amy Gore. The band's name comes from The Gore Gore Girls, a 1972 B-movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, which is a parody of the term Go Go Girls....
  
  
• Ha Ha Tonka
  Ha Ha Tonka
  Ha Ha Tonka is a band originally formed in Springfield, Missouri and currently signed to Bloodshot Records out of Chicago, Illinois. Named after Ha Ha Tonka state park in southern Missouri, their music is steeped in Ozark folk, bringing the passion, spirituality, hardships, and roots of the people...
  
  
• Wayne Hancock
  Wayne Hancock
  Wayne "The Train" Hancock is a country musician.Hancock began writing songs at the age of 12, and at 18 won a talent contest called the "Wrangler County Showdown." Immediately after the contest, he was shipped to recruit training and served four years with the United States Marine Corps. In 1994...
  
  
• I'm Not Jim
• Kelly Hogan
  Kelly Hogan
  Kelly Hogan is an American singer-songwriter born in Atlanta, Georgia.In the 1990s, Hogan sang with The Jody Grind , singing on their full-lengths One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure and Lefty's Deceiver . The group disbanded after two of its members were killed in a car crash...
  
  
• J.C. Brooks & The Uptown Sound
• Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops
  Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops
  Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops is a bluegrass group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-History:Jim Krewson first played bluegrass in a group called the Slobber Mountain Boys; Jennie Bedford learned bluegrass from her father, a banjo player. The two first met in New York City in 1998 and began playing...
  
  
• Jon Langford
  Jon Langford
  Jon Langford born October 11, 1957, Newport, Monmouthshire is a Welsh-born musician and artist who is presently based in Chicago. He is the younger brother of science-fiction author and critic David Langford...
  
  
• Legendary Shack Shakers
• Graham Lindsey
  Graham Lindsey
  Graham Lindsey is an American singer, songwriter and musician born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He played in several punk bands, including Old Skull; "the world's youngest punk band", while still in high-school. He released his first solo album in 2003...
  
  
• The Meat Purveyors
  The Meat Purveyors
  The Meat Purveyors are an Alt country bluegrass band from Austin, Texas. The Meat Purveyors consist of Bill Anderson on guitar, Jo Stanli Walston on vocals, Cherilyn diMond on upright bass, and Pete Stiles on mandolin...
  
  
• Mekons
• Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's are honky tonk country band based in Flint, MI. In 2010 they signed a recording contract with Chicago based Bloodshot Records.-Formation and Early History:...
  
  
• Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon was a vocalist and occasional keyboard player in the Leeds based anarchist band Chumbawamba...
  
  
• Nora O'Connor
  Nora O'Connor
  Nora O'Connor is an American musician. She sings and plays guitar with numerous bands and individuals from the U.S. and Canada, her primary involvements being Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire and the Blacks...
  
  
• Old 97's
  Old 97's
  The Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993, they have since released nine studio albums, two full extended plays, shared split duty on another, and have one live album. Their most recent release is The Grand Theatre, Volume Two...
  
  
• Graham Parker
  Graham Parker
  Graham Parker is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.-Early career :...
  
  
• Mark Pickerel
  Mark Pickerel
  Mark Pickerel is best known as the original drummer for the Screaming Trees, a rock group from Ellensburg, WA, that formed in 1985. Other members of the band included the versatile singer Mark Lanegan and the Conner brothers...
  
  
• Charlie Pickett
  Charlie Pickett
  Charles Albert Pickett was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1910.-External links:...
  
  
• Pine Valley Cosmonauts
  Pine Valley Cosmonauts
  -History:The group was initiated by Jon Langford as a covers group, with a constantly shifting repertory and cast of backing members. The name was first used for Langford's 1995 album of Johnny Cash cover songs...
  
  
• Jon Rauhouse
• The Riptones
• Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
  Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
  -History:Scotland Yard Gospel Choir was formed in 2001 by two college graduates with degrees in music. Despite the name, none of the members are from Scotland Yard or London and they do not play gospel music...
  
  
• Eddie Spaghetti
• Split Lip Rayfield
  Split Lip Rayfield
  Split Lip Rayfield is a vocal and acoustic instrumental group from Wichita, Kansas. Though they are sometimes classified as a bluegrass, alt-country or cowpunk band, their music draws on a wide array of influences.-History:...
  
  
• The Silos
• Trailer Bride
  Trailer Bride
  Trailer Bride was a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based alternative country rock band signed to Bloodshot Records. Formed in 1993, the band consisted of Melissa Swingle , Robert Mitchum , Brad Goolsby , Bryon Settle and Scott Goolsby...
  
  
• Waco Brothers
• Ben Weaver
• Wee Hairy Beasties
  Wee Hairy Beasties
  Wee Hairy Beasties are a children's music group composed of Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, and Devil in a Woodpile. They played their first gig together at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, and released an album through Bloodshot Records in 2006....
  
  
• Andre Williams
  Andre Williams
  Andre Williams is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.-Biography:...
  
  

External links

• Official site
• Label Spotlight PlugInMusic.com