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“The story of Bloodshot Records, one of the country’s most well-regarded roots-leaning labels, is a thrilling, sensory-filled journey through the life of its co-founder, Rob Miller, who had a front-row seat to independent music in Chicago during the last three decades. Miller’s writing is at once funny, moving, insightful, and full of pathos, as are his tales of crossing paths with and releasing records from all sorts of indie luminaries across genres, from Alejandro Escovedo to Neko Case to Lydia Loveless. “We didn’t invent this grassroots wheel,” Miller writes, “but it felt like in the wake of the mad alt-rock cash grab and ill-considered scramble for the gravy train, such outreach had been forgotten in the name of going big.” Miller’s well-told, page-turning tale is of one label that never forgot.” —Jonathan Bernstein