August 01, 2022 1 Comment
Ever the iconoclast, Jon doesn't make prints the way everyone else does. His are digital prints which he mounts on 1" plywood, pressing them so that the wood texture shows through, touches them up around the edges and varnishes them. Here are a couple of pictures.
From the side you can see how he's painted the side of the wood black. They're meant to hang that way. The ones hanging a little farther away from the camera are paintings, by the way. It's Jon's intention that they look the same to a casual glance.
Here's the back side of the Cash print, showing title, number, signature and date.
You'll notice it's an edition of 15 - pretty small. That's the way he likes it.
March 01, 2017 1 Comment
This will be our 22nd year of unofficial, unaffiliated day parties. As always, there's no cover, all parties are free, no rsvp required, come one, come all. Ride the bus, take a cab, ride a bike, walk. Parking in our hood is extremely limited. If you must drive there are parking garages at the South Congress Hotel and at Gueros.
March 10, 2016 2 Comments
Remember, no cover, no tickets, absolutely free, no rsvp. Walk, take a bus, take a cab/Uber/Lyft - super hard to find parking!
THURSDAY, MARCH 1712:00-12:15 - Paul Burch (solo acoustic)
12:15-12:45 - The Head
1:00-1:30 - Patrick Sweany
1:45-2:15 - Hardy & the Hardknocks (Dead Confederate's Hardy Morris)
2:30-3:00 - Blackfoot Gypsies
3:15-3:45 - The Wans
4:00-4:30 - Saint Pé (Ian from Black Lips & Diamond Rugs)
4:45-5:15 - Tedo Stone
5:30-6:00 - Pujol
6:15-7:00 - Uncle Lucius
FRIDAY, MARCH 18
Bloodshot Records Annual Day Party
Sponsored by Lagunitas, The Loar and Recording King
12:05-12:35 - Possessed By Paul James
12:45-1:15 - Rosie Flores
1:30-2:00 - Robbie Fulks
2:15-2:45 - Luke Winslow-King
3:00-3:30 - Lydia Loveless
3:45-4:15 - Al Scorch
4:30-5:00 - Banditos
5:15-5:45 - The Yawpers
6:00-6:45 - Waco Brothers
February 25, 2016
We will be teaming with Wrong Marfa for a two month-long show of portrait art, featuring original work by artists Jon Langford, Bob Schneider, Brian Salvi and Ike Morgan.
The opening reception on March 5 will be followed from 8 - 10pm with a performance by Chris Sand, aka The Rappin' Sandman.
January 02, 2015
December 21, 2013
Bloodshot Records is celebrating their 20th anniversary with a calendar featuring photos taken at their infamous Yard Dog Bloodshot Parties, which we throw every March, during SXSW. Beginning in 1996 with the Waco Brothers & Old 97s, the calendar has fantastic photos of all kinds of great musicians, including Justin Townes Earle, Split Lip Rayfield, Sally Timms and more more more. In addition, there's all sorts of whimsical and historical dates, listings of all our lineups over the years and other tidbits to catch your wandering gaze while you are killing time in whatever office, cubicle or cell you may find yourself in.
February 22, 2013
Ryan E Cronin
February 08, 2013
Small portraits of presidents (all of them), astronauts, cowboys, indians, saints and more, painted on wood blocks, from Pennsylvania artist Kurt Herrmann.
September 08, 2012
Seventeen years ago, on September 7, 1995, we opened our doors. We had a tiny collection of folk art we'd gathered from around the South. At the end of that first day we gathered in the gallery with a few good friends for a celebratory beer. A big storm blew in and all hell broke loose. The windows upstairs blew out and rainwater began running down our walls. A tree across the street was struck by lightning and exploded. One of its branches landed next to a friend's car, damming the water in the gutter and flooding his car. The giant pink bunny that sat atop our neighbor's sign blew off and rolled down the street. Always good to start off with a bang, right?
August 28, 2012
Remember cassette tapes? Remember laboriously assembling a collection of all of your favorite songs onto a tape? Remember what it looked like when the tape broke - either because it wore out or because your player was dirty or just malfunctioning? Well, Camp Bosworth remembers, and he's immortalized it in carved wood and metal awesomeness.
July 27, 2012
"The Sweet Spot," is a weekly feature in the Arts section of the Friday New York Times online, wherein David Carr & A.O. Scott discuss matters of culture. In today's installment, Carr is wearing his Yard Dog tee shirt. He can also be seen wearing the shirt in the movie "Page One." The man has great taste, doesn't he?
July 17, 2012
Deborah Baker
"What's Your Sign?"
Chicago stitcher extraordinaire Deborah Baker draws pictures with cotton thread on linen. Opening September 1, 2012, What's Your Sign? will feature her take on all 12 signs of the zodiac.
Coincidentally, we opened Yard Dog in early September, 1995, so that makes us a Leo, right? What's your sign?