Mekons Announce New Album Deserted + New Single + Tour

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 the album, along with a 2019 tour spanning Europe and the United States, and the launch of a new music video for the song "Lawrence of California." Emboldened by a sold-out tour and a surge of interest in the States after the release of the documentary Revenge of the Mekons, the Mekons retreated to the fringes of Joshua Tree National Park and popular culture to record their new album Deserted. Singer/guitarist Jon Langford said of the recording experience: "There are deserts everywhere. We took time to ponder the vastness and the weirdness of the desert. Going to the country to get your head together is a ripe old rock cliché. We went to the desert to have our brains scoured... We went from one desert to another. A more hopeful place where we arm ourselves with spikes and endure.” The band will tour extensively throughout April and July and all currently announced tour dates are included below.  Deserted album artwork: hi-res Track listing: Lawrence of California Harar 1883 Into the Sun How Many Stars In the Desert Mirage Weimar Vending Machine Andromeda After the Rain Tour dates: April 2 – Newport, United Kingdom –  Le Public Space Newport (tickets) April 3 – Leeds, United Kingdom – Brudenell Social Club (tickets) April 4 –  Brighton, United Kingdom – Patterns (tickets) April 5 – London, United Kingdom – 100 Club (tickets) April 6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Cinetol April 7 – Berlin, Germany – Music & Frieden April 8 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang April 9 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Alice April 10 – Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm (tickets) April 11 – Linz, Austria – Stwst Stadtwerkstatt April 12 – Vienna, Austria – Chelsea (tickets) April 13 – Reutlingen, Germany – Franz.K (tickets) April 14 – Bad Salgau, Germany – Franziskaner (tickets) July 14 – Chicago, IL, United States – Hideout (tickets) July 15 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon (tickets) July 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol Entrance Space (tickets) July 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s (tickets) July 19 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (tickets) July 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room (tickets) July 23 – Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library (tickets) July 24 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel (tickets) July 25 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern (tickets) All dates collected on the band's tour dates page.

Bloodshot Records Signs Jason Hawk Harris

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 been on the road in support of or writing its follow-up ever since. Bloodshot first caught him at Folk Alliance in 2018, when he gave goosebumps to everyone within the dingy walls of a tiny hotel room with his evocative, powerful, and unrestrained live duo set. Later in the year, he opened up for our Sarah Shook & the Disarmers on a run of tour dates, after which Sarah relayed her wholehearted approval. JHH will release his full-length debut with Bloodshot in 2019. Video for “I’m Afraid”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRvdKiX_mmY

The Bottle Rockets: new album, song, tour!

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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. — Living Room Show Aug. 30 — New Albany, Ind. — Living Room Show Aug. 31 — Manchester, Ky. — Manchester Music Fest Sept. 7 — Crystal City, Mo. — Twin City Days Party on the Cobblestone Sept. 14 — Nashville, Tenn. Bloodshot Records Backyard Bash Oct. 11 — Grand Rapids, Mich. — Tip Top Deluxe Bar and Grill Oct. 12 — Cleveland, Ohio — Beachland Tavern Oct. 13 — Buffalo, New York — Sportsmen’s Tavern Oct. 14 — Toronto, Ontario CA — Lee’s Palace Oct. 16 — Northampton, Mass. — Iron Horse Music Hall Oct. 17 — New York, N.Y. — Hill Country Live Oct. 18 — Washington, D.C. — Gypsy Sally’s Oct. 19 — Philadelphia, Pa. — Milkboy Oct. 21 — Charleston, W.V. — Mountain Stage Nov. 7 — Wisconsin Dells, Wisc. — Showboat Saloon Nov. 8 — Milwaukee, Wisc. — Shank Hall Nov. 9 — Three Oaks, Mich. — Acorn Theater Nov. 14 — St. Paul, Minn. — Turf Club Dec. 1 — Macomb, Ill. — Tri States Public Radio Show Dec. 7 — Bloomington, Ill. — The Castle Theater Dec. 8 — Springfield, Ill. — Bar None

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers sign with Bloodshot Records + Sidelong out on 4/28

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, "Yeah, they’re a country band, but not of the sort currently dominating the mainstream Nashville country scene. Sarah Shook and the Disarmers are outsiders and proud of it." SoundCloud link to “Keep the Home Fires Burnin’”: https://soundcloud.com/bshq/keep-the-home-fires-burnin-by-sarah-shook-the-disarmers-1/s-OSV6C SS&tD will be touring in 2017, including their first trip down to SXSW, where they will perform at Bloodshot’s annual showcase and Yard Dog day party. All additional dates are included below or on SS&tD’s tour dates page. 2/24 Wake Forest, NC - Rockin the Forest 2/25 Raleigh, NC - Kings - WKNC benefit 5/19 Beaufort, NC - Beaufort Music Festival 5/20 Beaufort, NC - Beaufort Music Festival Current dates: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/tours-events/15493         Sidelong track listing: Keep the Home Fires Burnin' The Nail Heal Me Sidelong No Name Dwight Yoakam Misery Without Company Solitary Confinement Nothin' Feels Right But Doin' Wrong Fuck Up Make It Up to Mama Road That Leads to You

Scott H. Biram: new album + song premiere via Rolling Stone Country

Scott H. Biram announces new album and premieres song via Rolling Stone Country

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Bloodshot Records will release The Bad Testament on February 24

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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: http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/hear-scott-h-birams-greasy-lament-long-old-time-w456188

The Ameripolitan Award-nominated, Austin-based Dirty Old One Man Band will be on the road relentlessly touring in support of The Bad Testament in 2017, of which a few dates are listed below. His tour date page will announce an extended mid-March through mid-April tour run into the western U.S. in the coming weeks.

Current dates:

1/26 - Lafayette, LA @ Blue Moon Saloon

1/27 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia

1/28 - Beaumont, TX @ The Gig

2/16 - San Antonio, TX @ Sam’s Burger Joint

2/26 - The Outlaw Country Cruise

The Bad Testament track listing:

1. Set Me Free

2. Still Around

3. Red Wine

4. TrainWrecker

5. Long Old Time

6. Swift Driftin'

7. Righteous Ways

8. Crippled & Crazy

9. Feel So Wrong

10. True Religion

Bonus tracks: (Lost On The River) EP

11. Hit The River

12. Pressin' On

13. What Doesn't Kill You...

2017 Grammy Nominations for Robbie Fulks! Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song

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 59th 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 received critical acclaim from a varied and widespread list of publications, including Rolling Stone Country (“With his new album Upland Stories, Robbie Fulks furthers his reputation as one of the most observant and wry songwriters of the past two decades”), NPR Fresh Air, NPR Music, New Yorker, Guardian UK, Noisey, FADER, Acoustic Guitar Magazine and many more. The Grammy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 12. Watch Robbie perform “Alabama At Night”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMmReNAf5o Upcoming tour dates: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/tours-events/200

Bobby Bare Jr. Consequence of Sound Song Premiere | Live Album Soundtrack out 7/31

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 of itself) whilst remaining a loving family man back in his hometown of Nashville. The film, which features appearances and commentary by Justin Townes Earle, My Morning Jacket, Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Sr., and more, was released in a limited capacity in 2012, and then in 2014 screened in theaters and clubs in major U.S. cities, including a stint at Austin’s South By Southwest music festival. It is now widely released online (Hulu, iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo, etc.) and on DVD.

What also resulted from those months of documenting Bobby Bare Jr. on the road is a film soundtrack, consisting of some of Bobby Bare Jr.’s most energetic and sonically sharp live performances put to tape. Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack includes new versions of fan-favorites and deep cuts from Bobby’s classic Bloodshot albums like The Longest Meow and From the End of Your Leash, as well as songs from his 2010 Thirty Tigers album A Storm, A Tree, My Mother’s Head.  Recorded at beloved venues like Portland, OR’s Crystal Ballroom, Chapel Hill, NC’s Local 506, and Nashville’s The Basement, these songs span the genre-busting gamut that Bobby is known to trample, while evoking many of the emotions felt by viewers of the documentary - love, heartbreak, joy, homesickness, anticipation, despair, and hope.