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Greg Davis formed Blood on the Saddle in 1982. The twang-and-thrash band spearheaded the L.A.-based cowpunk scene that included Tex and the Horseheads, Gun Club, and Rank and File. “It’s safe to say Blood on the Saddle and the Hickoids both invented cowpunk independently,” says the singer-guitarist. “We opened for the Circle Jerks, Dwight Yoakam,...
Review of “Blood On The Saddle” and “Poison Love” on rich’s r’n’r rants & raves blog. Read>>>https://bit.ly/3zHBeMT
Review of the Blood On The Saddle album, “Flesh & Blood” in Ox-Fanzine (German) Ausgabe #44 (September/Oktober/November 2001) Read>>https://bit.ly/3E3FCrU
To the fans and critics, it’s “country-punk.” To the band itself, it’s Western-folk-thrash.” Whatever you call the hybrid, Blood on the Saddle’s 78-r.p.m. blend of traditional and newfangled strains as much to Jimmie Rodgers as to Johnny Rotten. It may sound like a joke, but this is a band that makes the incongruous congruous. Founder...
Perhaps the best thing about country-punk — or cow punk, if you prefer — is how little it has to do with Nashville’s polite reading of country history. Groups such as Rank and File, Jason and the Scorchers and Blood on the Saddle exploit country’s rawer and more evocative outer regions — Memphis rockabilly, Texas...
July 5, 1984 – The Arizona Republic ‘Hellbent hillbilly’ music leaves listeners thrashing to beat of country, punk fusion Blood on the Saddle revs up traditional bluegrass By Mark de la Vina The drummer is into hard-core punk, the lead guitarist plays bluegrass and the rhythm guitarist used to be in a neopsychedelic girl group....
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