Danny Hutchens, Eric Carter, David Nickel, and Bentley Rhodes
Influences
"Just like when we do a Robert Johnson cover or a Talking Heads cover, we want to pay tribute to someone...This guy (Hutchens) happens to be young and alive and just as prolific and just as important as our other influences."
-John Bell of Widespread Panic, in BILLBOARD magazine
Daniel Hutchens and Eric Carter met each other when they were eight years old. They solidified their early friendship based on a mutual love of baseball, comic books, and rock n roll music. They grew up in West Virginia; much time during their high school years was spent on Skull Run Road, where Eric's family lived, a few miles outside Ravenswood. The boys recall that road as being the site of their first garage band practices.
After high school, they started getting a little more serious about their blossoming songwriting partnership. Their road wound through Huntington, WV, and eventually on to Athens, GA, which they soon came to call home. They continued to concentrate on their songwriting, and by the early 90's they had a catalogue of over 300 compositions. By this time Hutchens and Carter had given their musical collaboration a "band name": Bloodkin.
People started to notice, and some even started covering some Bloodkin compositions, most notably Widespread Panic, who wound up recording three Bloodkin songs, and who continue to play those and other Bloodkin songs live. Panic's cover of "Can't Get High" peaked at ..27 on the Billboard AOR charts. Other songs in Panic's regular rotation are "Makes Sense To Me", "Henry Parsons Died", "End Of The Show", "Who Do You Belong To", and occasionally "Quarter Tank Of Gasoline".
Daniel also wound up playing with ex-Velvet Underground member Moe Tucker in the early-to-mid 90's; he played on three of her albums and several of her tours.
In 1994 Bloodkin released their first official CD, GOOD LUCK CHARM. The project was produced by Johnny Sandlin (legendary producer of the Allman Brothers, Eddie Hinton, and so many others). Bloodkin recording projects over the years have also featired producers John Keane (R.E.M, Cowboy Junkies, etc.), and, more often than any other producer, David Barbe (Son Volt, Drive By Truckers, etc.). All the while, the Bloodkin boys have continued to play between 100-200 shows a year all over the Southeast and, since 1999, around the country.
June 14, 2005, will mark the release of LAST NIGHT OUT. This is the 7th studio release featuring all original Hutchens or Hutchens/Carter compositions. The releases to date are:
GOOD LUCK CHARM, 1994
CREEPERWEED, 1996
OUT OF STATE PLATES, 1999
ALL DOLLED UP, 2000 (live)
THE BLOODKIN COMMUNITY GOSPEL REHAB, 2001
RAVIN' BEAUTIES, 2002
LESSER, 2003 (daniel hutchens solo)
LAST NIGHT OUT, 2005
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I hope you can bring around the dirty rock show soon!... I can't make it to Raleigh or Athens for the Panic fiasco. Ya'll have given us tons of inspiration for our own music. Thanks for being... well, being... Later.
Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was. . . He was one of us.
He was a man who loved the outdoors,
and bowling, and as a surfer explored
the beaches of southern California
from Redondo to Calabassos. And he
was an avid bowler. And a good
friend. He died--he died as so many
of his generation, before his time. In your wisdom you took him, Lord.
As you took so many bright flowering
young men, at Khe San and Lan Doc
and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And Donny too. Donny
who. . . who loved bowling.
And so, Theodore--Donald--Karabotsos,
in accordance with what we think
your dying wishes might well have
been, we commit your mortal remains
to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which
you loved so well. Goodnight, sweet
prince.
Thanks for the add fellas! I saw y'all at a little bar in Evergreen, Colorado called Cactus Jacks a year or two back, and y'alls show still sticks with me. Keep rockin!
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