9/28/06
Next month, Bloodshot Records will be releasing their first DVD which features 12 years of footage from its impressive stable of artists. Titled Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records Life in the Trenches the disc contains over 3 hours of live performances, interviews and music videos of artists like the Old 97’s, Split Lip Rayfield, Neko Case, Bobby Bare Jr, and a young Ryan Adams. Also featured prominently are Austin artists Alejandro Escovedo, Wayne Hancock, The Meat Purveyors, and Scott Biram.
In anticipation of the release, Bloodshot has released a remake of the video for Scott Biram’s “Hit the Road,” which is also on the DVD. The remake, though, features pictures from Biram’s own brush with death on Texas Highway 123 in 2003 that are, to put it mildly, gruesome as hell.
If you don’t know the now-legendary tale of Biram’s bloody rise from the ashes and twisted steel, his truck was leveled by an 18-Wheeler in a head-on collision at 75 mph. While it’s miraculous that Biram survived at all, what‘s even more amazing is that less than two months later he took the stage at the Continental Club in a wheelchair and with an IV still dangling from his arm. That, my friends, is hardcore.
Biram, never one to shy away from the grotesque, has put still pictures of the wreck and his bloodied body being hauled from it up on his website, and now has included them in the video. And chickens, lots of chickens.
