Thank you for your ongoing support and patience with our small operation. Our office is currently closed. We are continuing to accept and fill orders, but we ask that you please be patient with us. Take care of yourselves and each other.
Here’s to one of the baddest, funniest, crudest, toughest, generous, so bullshitty-it-ain’t-bullshit-anymore-it’s-the-truth, resilient chameleons to ever pick up a microphone or strut into a recording studio.
For over six decades, he’s been called Mr. Rhythm, the Black Godfather, and the original ‘Dre. He’s recorded everywhere with everyone. He’s recorded songs you love and you may not even know it.
He’s...Read more
We like to listen to vinyl on Fridays here at BSHQ. Every Friday we have a Bloodshot crew member randomly select a record from his/her personal collection and bring it to the office. The person has to explain why the album is on his/her shelves, and then we listen to it. We call this Random Wax.
Today's contestant is a guest...Read more
We like to listen to vinyl on Fridays here at BSHQ. Every Friday we have a Bloodshot crew member randomly select a record from his/her personal collection and bring it to the office. The person has to explain why the album is on his/her shelves, and then we listen to it. We call this Random Wax.
Today's contestant is a guest...Read more
We like to listen to vinyl on Fridays here at BSHQ. Every Friday we have a Bloodshot crew member randomly select a record from his/her personal collection and bring it to the office. The person has to explain why the album is on his/her shelves, and then we listen to it. We call this Random Wax.
Today's contestant is a guest...Read more
My old friend Johnny Pitts passed away this past Saturday, July 2nd. He was 81 and had been in ill health for years. I met Johnny as a friend of The Sundowners in the mid-90s, likely at the Dec 1st, 1993 event where Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley declared Sundowners Day in the City of Chicago in tribute...Read more
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Robbie Fulks's debut album Country Love Songs, released June 26th, 1996 on Bloodshot Records.
Yesterday we published an essay by Robbie Fulks himself about the album (it's inception and aftermath), and now here's Bloodshot Records bossman Rob Miller's take.
Despite the modest and surprising success of a couple of our early records like the...Read more
"There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats.
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