There are a couple of words that are often used to describe the band Bloodkin. "Underground" and "underrated" seem to consistently come up. In fairness to those labels, the band has certainly remained at the margins of the commercial music business. But a couple of other words that more aptly sum up the band at this point in their 27 year career are "dedicated" and "prolific". Bloodkin celebrated their silver anniversary back in 2013 with a 5-Disc anthology box set (One Long Hustle) to add to their existing catalog of 9 albums to undoubtedly prove what many of their fans and peers have always known. It is and has always been only about the music for the childhood friends that founded Bloodkin a quarter century ago. Despite some truly dire and dark moments that would have derailed those less committed to the craft, their collective pen has continued to carve out beautiful southern gothic poetry in the form of reckless rock and roll music that covers a broad spectrum of the human condition with an especially keen eye for capturing and celebrating the light that can come from darkness.