He started playing Montreal clubs in 1998 while he sometimes worked with a band, he was a big fan of mad genius Hasil Adkins, and Bill embraced a performing style similar to his. Bill started playing drums in high school, and in his early twenties he picked up the guitar, emboldened by the primal growl of Link Wray. Of Italian and Trinidadian heritage (or as he describes himself, Trinitalian), he was hipped to cool rock & roll sounds by an older sibling with a good record collection, and he had an older cousin who was into rockabilly and played in a local band. Reluctant to reveal his real name, Bloodshot Bill was born on January 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After cutting for a number of small labels, he hit his stride with a series of fine albums for Norton Records - most notably 2011's Thunder and Lightning and 2016's Guitar Boy - and later Goner Records, who brought out 2019's Come Get Your Love Right Now and 2020's Get Loose or Get Lost. Bloodshot Bill summed up his worldview with the title of his first, self-released album, 2001's Sex, Blood & Rock 'n' Roll!, and he's recorded prolifically since then. Bloodshot Bill's music is influenced by rockabilly originators like Charlie Feathers and Billy Lee Riley, but there's also a strong thread of blues and early rock in his music, and he's less interested in the polish or dress-up slickness of many latter-day rockabilly acts, instead tapping into the wild, organic sound of primal backbeat. A rockabilly wild man whose style leans to the grittier first-generation trailblazers of the genre, Bloodshot Bill plays raw, raucous music that rocks the house whether he's playing one-man-band style or with a combo backing him.
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