Bliss Blood

Bliss Blood is a musician and songwriter from Houston, Texas. She moved to New York City, New York in 1996. She has written and recorded one album with Evanescent in 2011 (a duo with guitarist Al Street), five albums with New York jazz band The Moonlighters from 2000-2009, and six albums from 1988-1995 with Houston noise rock band Pain Teens. She has also appeared on recordings with groups including The Melvins, Exit-13 and Angels of Light.

Current projects

Bliss Blood writes songs and plays ukulele in the 1920s & '30s jazz-themed New York City group The Moonlighters, formed in 1998. The Moonlighters write original songs, and released 4 cds on their own label, Onliest Records, toured Germany four times, in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and released their fifth cd on Worldsound Records in 2009. Current lineup of the band includes actress/singer/screenwriter Cindy Ball on vocals and guitar, Raphael McGregor on steel guitar, and Rus Wimbish on acoustic bass.

She currently leads several other New York bands, Evanescent, with guitarist Al Street, formerly of the Sugarman Three, and Delta Dreambox (Mississippi Delta and Classic Women's blues from the 1920s to '40s) collaborating with Al Street on guitar and formerly Marty Bartolomeo on piano, and writing original blues songs. Former projects include Nightcall, a "crime jazz" band also featuring Stu Spasm from Australian grunge rock band Lubricated Goat, Voodoo Suite (lounge/exotica) with vibraphonist Tom Beckham, Cantonement Jazz Band (1920s jazz band, a piano, violin and horn section), Here's How (1950s cool jazz),

Evanescent has two original songs in the independent New York City film "Hello Lonesome", directed by Adam Reid, released May 27, 2011.

External links

• Bliss Blood's official webpage and webpage for the Moonlighters
• Cindy Ball's official webpage Moonlighters guitarist/vocalist

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