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By: Josh Sharpe Pioneering Punk & Western band Blood on the Saddle returns to play a Los Angeles date at the Redwood Bar on August 16, 2024, with the Mike Livingstone Trio and Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon. The band is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album and has released “First Blood,” a collection...
First Blood by Blood on the Saddle is out today and available wherever you stream or download music. Click the link to be directed to your preferred music service. https://bloodonthesaddle.lnk.to/FirstBlood
By: Blair Ingenthron In a June 2, 1985 article, Los Angeles Times Music Critic Chris Willman described Blood on the Saddle’s self-titled, 1984 debut album as “One of the most absorbing vinyl wonders the city has produced in the last few years.” Later that year, in the December issue of Spin Magazine, Andrea ‘Enthal wrote,...
LOS ANGELES – Dec. 5, 2023 – Country Punk legends Blood on the Saddle will headline a local show, X-Mess Sessions, presented by American Surf Skate Records, at the Moose Lodge 785 in Torrance, California, on Saturday, December 23, 2023. This is the band’s first local show since 2019 and marks the debut of...
Ton-Up Records, a division of Ton-Up Inc., has entered into an agreement with Greg Davis, the groundbreaking musician, songwriter, and founder of the legendary Country Punk band, Blood on the Saddle. The new Ton-Up Inc. deal covers the worldwide rights to Blood on the Saddle’s recorded music catalog, including classics such as “I Wish I Was...
Review of the Blood On The Saddle album, “The Mud, The Blood, & The Beer” in the Ox-Fanzine (German)/Ausgabe #95 (June/Juli 2011) Read>>https://bit.ly/3UqjMV5
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...
