Bliss Blood is an American musician and songwriter. She has written and recorded two albums with virtuoso guitarist Al Street, five albums with New York

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

band The Moonlighters from 2000 to 2009, and six albums from 1988 to 1995 with Houston

noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise music, noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimal music, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, a ...

band

Pain Teens Pain Teens was an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood. The band used tape manipulation, digital delays, sampling, tape cut-ups and other effects in their music. They also included guitar, ...

. She has also recorded with the

Melvins Melvins (sometimes The Melvins) are an American rock band formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington. Their early work was key to the development of both grunge and sludge metal. Initially, they performed as a trio but later also sometimes appeare ...

and many other groups.

Current projects

Bliss Blood is primarily a songwriter who began her career in 1988 in Houston, Texas psychedelic noise rock group

, she currently writes songs and plays

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in the 1920s and 1930s jazz-themed New York City group The Moonlighters, formed in 1998. She writes original songs, rare in the "retro jazz" genre, and The Moonlighters released four CDs on their own label, Onliest Records, toured Germany four times, in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and released their fifth CD, "Enchanted", on WorldSound Records in 2009. The current lineup of the band includes actress/singer/screenwriter Cindy Ball on vocals and guitar, John Pinella on steel guitar, Rus Wimbish on acoustic bass, Al Street on guitar, and Jim Fryer on horns. She also collaborates with guitarist Al Street. In 2015 they released their third cd, 14 unoriginal songs, titled "Unspun" on Bliss' Onliest Records label. They have previously released two CDs, ''Evanescent'' (10 original songs) and ''Live on the Lilac'' (17 cover tunes). They had two original songs featured in the independent New York City film '' Hello Lonesome'', directed by Adam Reid, released May 27, 2011. The Independent Shakespeare Compan

headed by actor David Melville performed Bliss Blood's original songs onstage in their August 2012 staging of ''A Comedy of Errors''. Hollow Publishing review of Unspun: https://hollowpublishing.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/unspun-by-bliss-blood-al-street/

References

External links

Bliss Blood's official webpage
and webpage for Bliss Blood & Al Street, The Moonlighters, Delta Dreambox & Pain Teens
Cindy Ball's official webpage
Moonlighters guitarist/vocalist
Bliss Blood on Bandcamp
complete discography of all releases {{DEFAULTSORT:Blood, Bliss American lyricists American women rock singers Living people Pain Teens members Musicians from Houston Year of birth missing (living people) American women singer-songwriters Singer-songwriters from Texas Musicians from Omaha, Nebraska 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers 21st-century American women singers Singer-songwriters from Nebraska