Bman's Blues Report

Mekons Announce New Album  Deserted, Out on March 29 L-R: Dave Trumfio (bass), Susie Honeyman (violin), Jon Langford (vocals/guitar), Steve Goulding (drums), Rico Bell (accordion/vocals), Tom Greenhalgh (vocals/guitar), Lu Edmonds (saz, cumbus, oud), Sally Timms (vocals). Photo credit: Ricky Malpas ( hi-res ) Plus, RollingStone.com Premieres Video For "Lawrence of California" and Announces New European and U.S. Tour Dates British folk-punk collective the Mekons will release a new album  Deserted  ( PRE-ORDER HERE ) on March 29. It is their first formal studio album since 2011's Ancient & Modern . RollingStone.com announced ...

Photo credit: Daley Hake ( download ) Full-Length Debut To Be Announced Soon Bloodshot Records is excited to announce the signing of Houston, TX-raised/Los Angeles-based artist Jason Hawk Harris . The singer/guitarist – formerly of LA-based indie outfit The Show Ponies – self-describes his sound as "meta-apocalyptic country/Americana grief-grass," a tongue-in-cheek amalgam combining his background in music composition education, impassioned song content, and the influence of growing up listening to traditional country, folk and rock singers. In 2017, Harris released his first solo effort, a five-song EP Formaldehyde, Tobacco and Tulips , and has be...

[ album artwork ] The Bottle Rockets announce new album, song, tour The Bottle Rockets will release their new album  Bit Logic  on October 12th, 2018. The forthcoming full-length is the St. Louis quartet's first since 2015's South Broadway Athletic Club . The band recently teased a sneak preview song premiere of the album title track via Wide Open Country . In support of Bit Logic , the Bottle Rockets will continue to tour across the country, including an upcoming appearance at AmericanaFest in Nashville. Aug. 16 — El Dorado, Ark. — The Griffin Aug. 17 — Pocola, Okla. — Gilley’s at Choctaw Casino Aug. 18 — Reeds Spring, Mo. — Livin...

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers sign with Bloodshot Records + Sidelong to be released on 4/28 Chapel Hill, NC natives Sarah Shook & the Disarmers have signed with Bloodshot Records and will release their album Sidelong on April 28. The band is also working on a brand new album for release in 2018. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers have been heralded by No Depression, Alternate Root, and Rolling Stone Country, with the last saying, “Honest to a fault and as foul-mouthed as a drunken sailor, she's a nonconforming spitfire who's proud of not fitting in with mainstream country music.” PRE-ORDER LINK: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/sidelong PopMatters announced the signing and release , saying, ...

Scott H. Biram announces new album and premieres song via Rolling Stone Country Credit: Nate Burrell Bloodshot Records will release The Bad Testament on February 24 + Scott H. Biram will release a new album, entitled The Bad Testament , on February 24 . This will be his 10th album overall and 6th with Bloodshot Records, his first since 2014's Nothin' But Blood . The Bad Testament lands somewhere west of the Old Testament and south of the AA handbook, straddling the chasm between sin and redemption. It’s a record of hard-grinding lost love, blues and deep, dark Americana. PRE-ORDER LINK: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bad-testament Rolling Stone Country announced the release this morning, along with a premiere of a new song "Long Old Time", saying, "Biram evokes the haunted bluesmen and country singers of the past on the greasy blues number, singing as a man out of options and trapped by his bad decisions." LINK: ht...

Robbie Fulks Nominated For Two Grammy Awards Fulks, selected for Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song categories, is the first Bloodshot artist to be nominated   The nominees for the 59 th Grammy Awards were announced this morning and Bloodshot Records artist Robbie Fulks has been nominated for two Awards in the categories of Best American Roots Song for “Alabama At Night” and Best Folk Album for Upland Stories . These are the first nominations for Fulks, and first for an artist on the record label.   Billboard.com Grammy nomination news:  http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597556/grammys-nominees-complete-list-2017 Both nominations are for music of Fulks’s latest album Upland Stories , which re...

BOBBY BARE JR - “THE BEGINNING OF THE END”  CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND PREMIERE Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack out digitally on 7/31 Bloodshot Records is proud to release the soundtrack to the Bobby Bare Jr. documentary  Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) . The album will be released through digital retailers and via a limited edition screen printed poster with digital download code. Pre-orders are available now.  The lone studio recording on the live collection, a previously unreleased track titled “The Beginning of the End,” is streaming on Consequence of Sound . Back in 2010 and 2011, visionary, charismatic singer/songwriter and musician’s musician Bobby Bare Jr. was followed on tour by a film crew led by filmmaker William Miller. What resulted is Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) , a touching, funny, and genuine rock doc about the struggles of maintaining a modestly successful touring career (which is a hell of a task in and ...