Steve Pride and His Blood Kin
Pre-alt.-country band from Champaign, Illinois featuring Steve Shields, Jay Bennett and Don Gerard.
“Before there was No Depression or ‘Alternative Country’ there was just fu**in’ good bands like Steve Pride and his Blood Kin. I liked them so much I stole their guitar player.” -- Jeff Tweedy
10/06/2023
The man could pick it...
Steve Pride & his Blood Kin perform Big Money Pre-alt.-country band Steve Pride & His Blood Kin featuring Steve, Jay Bennett (TLA, Wilco), Don Gerard (The Moon Seven Times) and Patrick Hawley. Visit - ht...
10/06/2023
21/04/2023
Today’s artifact includes a partial* set list from the time Pride served as the evening entertainment at Don’s brother’s wedding…somewhere in Iowa.
(*I believe there might have been a 3rd set…or maybe we just repeated the 1st set…also missing is legendary rendition of Anne Murray’s “Could I Have This Dance”)
18/07/2021
No relation...
23/01/2021
I fell into a Bernie ring of fire...
15/01/2021
Let's all take a moment to say a prayer and give thanks for George Chin, Sr.
*TWALK
13/01/2021
Happy Impeachment Day
https://youtu.be/SFN9Ekb_6cg
Steve Pride & his Blood Kin perform One Last Time Pre-alt.-country band Steve Pride & His Blood Kin featuring Steve, Jay Bennett (TLA, Wilco), Don Gerard (The Moon Seven Times) and Patrick Hawley. Visit - ht...
18/12/2020
14/07/2020
Ahead of our time, really...
11/03/2020
Seeking rehearsal space with PA, amps and drums for the evening of Friday, May 22 in Champaign-Urbana (or parts close by)...message us! Thanks!
27/02/2020
Who are the sh*t-kickin' country pickers around Champaign-Urbana and which ones might be around Memorial Day Weekend?
We've got a giant, empty pair of boots...
19/02/2020
You know, Steve did work for a spell at the Moog factory...jus' thinkin'...
Country Moog / Nashville Gold Gil Trythall · Album · 2007 · 25 songs.
10/02/2020
Oh, boy. Sh*t just got real.
22/01/2020
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him walk on it." ~ L. Duncan Monroe
Saturday, May 23, 2020
15/01/2020
It was downright neighborly for our pal Jerker Emanuelson to stick our cut "I Prefer the Darker Side of Life" on his "Hit the Hay Vol. II" mini-digigit record-thingy! Thank you, buddy!
www.SoundAsleepRecords.com
12/12/2019
We feel like our dear, departed brother, Cisco Weldon, would have enjoyed this meme...
18/11/2019
Looks like Bradley Bourbonnais is starting to think about May 2020... Corson Music
18/11/2019
"Before there was No Depression or 'Alternative Country' there was just fu**in' good bands like Steve Pride and His Blood Kin. I liked them so much I stole their guitar player."
~ Jeff Tweedy
How Wilco Became Such a Good Live Band Tracing the band’s 25-year onstage evolution through their best live videos and recordings
16/11/2019
Missing Jay Walter on the 55th anniversary of his birth...
Godspeed, Brother.
07/11/2019
unearthed the setlist from Pride taping @ WILL TV out of an old drum case...now headed to The Smithsonian...at their request (of course).
31/10/2019
How are we gonna pull this off? Well, as our beloved brother, Jay Walter used to say, "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it."
31/10/2019
Hey, there...slow down, Slow Ride! Take it easy!
23/10/2019
11/10/2019
It has been a bit since we last dusted off these songs...if we do it again we're gonna need a little help.
“Before there was No Depression or ‘Alternative Country’ there was just fu**in’ good bands like Steve Pride and his Blood Kin. I liked them so much I stole their guitar player.”
~ Jeff Tweedy
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him walk on it..."
~ L. Duncan Monroe
Steve Pride & his Blood Kin perform Mister Bones
It's Friday the 13th and we're here to remind you...
Pre-alt.-country band Steve Pride & His Blood Kin featuring Steve, Jay Bennett (TLA, Wilco), Don Gerard (The Moon Seven Times) and Patrick Hawley. Visit - ht...
Jay Bennett, Gone, But Not Forgotten
Looking forward to upcoming film from Gorman Bechard & Fred Uhter about our brother -- Where are you, Jay Bennett?
via No Depression
nodepression.com It's been more than fifteen years since the late Jay Bennett left Wilco but his separation is still being discussed to this day--and some eight years since he died prematurely in his sleep. And now a new documentary Where are you, Jay Bennett? is being made about his music and life.
Our Story
“Before there was No Depression or ‘Alternative Country’ there was just fu**in’ good bands like Steve Pride and his Blood Kin. I liked them so much I stole their guitar player.” -- Jeff Tweedy
ALLMUSIC
Prior to recording Haint, singer/songwriter Steve Pride had led the Champaign and Urbana, IL-based Steve Pride & His Blood Kin. The band -- whom at one point or another featured future members of Poster Children, The Moon Seven Times, and Seam, to name a few -- played together for three years, mostly in the Midwest, but had only managed to release one song during their existence, calling it quits in 1994.
They turned out to be a few years ahead of the insurgent country movement circa 1996, and even though they were alt-country precursors, they were hardly ever mentioned. Musicians like Wilco's Jeff Tweedy did their best to name-check the group in interviews (Tweedy even admitted to liking Pride's band so much that he "stole their guitar player.")
