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Bloodshot Records

Words: Loren • December 25, 2014

Bloodshot Records
Bloodshot Records

Josh Zanger (Bloodshot Records)

SPB: The covers compilation for your 20th anniversary is rather extensive. When did you start work on gathering the cooperating artists?

Zanger: Everyone on staff made lists of acts that we’d love to hear cover Bloodshot artists - past and present - back in late 2013. Our collective list was pretty massive and had bands on it that would never do a cover song for our comp, but we tried anyways.

 

Loren • December 25, 2014

Bloodshot Records
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