Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots/ Various - Too Late To Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Various Artists)Bloodshot Records was launched in 1994 with the release of it's first album, the scene capturing compilation For A Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country. For our 25th anniversary, we wanted to come back home to shine a light, once again, on Chicago ever changing, ever vibrant, ever on the make to champion the storytellers who keep the city a vital place. While the metropolis is too motley to have a signature sound, it does have a signature hustle,

Some 40 years later this release let's you be a fly on the wall as Jerry and Huey square off at one another

Navy Band/ U

& Pee Wee Parham

as the name "Matis" implies

Rasch r Saxophone Quartet - Europe

Combining consummate artistry with characteristic research

loud and wild

Raff's modern day compatriot

makes a welcome re-appearance too

Most recently on records for David Hillyard in NYC and Smoke & Mirrors Soundsystem in LA

"Death from Beyond" is made for all those who worship the glorious Scandinavian scene from the 90's

taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli and Monteverdi