2008 started with such un-suredness for By Blood Alone, but ended with things looking quite bright. Obviously Cruella’s cancer battle was the major player in this, and while in Jan she was doing quite well and finishing up her treatments, the future of the band seemed less clear. No, we were not planning on breaking [ More ]

A week after an ice stormed knocked out power to half the state, the first big snowstorm of the season hit us on the night of our last show for the year, a one song performance at WCYY’s “Home for the Holidaze” at the Big Easy. Mark Curdo from WCYY kept texting all the participants [ More ]

Based on the strength of our performance at Mark Curdo’s Spinal Tap tribute show, Robin Ivy (WCYY’s morning gal) asked us to perform unplugged on the air as a promo for the WCYY “Home for the Holidaze” show at the Big Easy, where local bands all play holiday songs. Unfortunately, the song that the band [ More ]

w/Red Cross Sky BBA has never played at The Bridge Street Taven before, but I had gone to check out the venue when we booked the gig. The joint turned out to be a neighborhood bar, but a really clean nice one with a very friendly and local-music enthusiastic staff. The patronage was diverse – regular [ More ]

We thought that Halloween would pretty much be the end of 2008 for By Blood Alone, but we were wrong. We actually have three shows in December: On Saturday December 13th we will make our debut at the bridge street tavern in Augusta as guests of red cross sky. I’ve visited the joint and it’s [ More ]