Bloodroot for a time was known as Johnny Young. Hard rocking and deeply grooving, their powerful, driving sound borrows from both the heaviness of metal’s caveman stomp and the melodic accessibility of post-grunge '90s rock.
“Live, they deliver the goods in a raw and vibrant fashion.” – [Creative Loafing]
“Their second cd, Drone, is an excellent slab of darkly melodic hard rock that bashes together plenty of crunching riffs, a pulsing rhythm section and to-the-point lyrics with a dash of psychedelia to mix things up, how ever you care to define it, it's just good damn music that was meant to be enjoyed.” – [Flagpole.]
They’ve released two cds, Shed Your Skin in 1998, and Drone in 2000.

From 2000 to 2002, The band toured frequently playing clubs and colleges between Texas and Boston sharing stages with bands as diverse as Spacehog, Moke, Supafuzz, Agents of Good Roots, Spine, Smartbomb, Punchy, Ropetree, George Devore and many others. Along the way they garnered substantial radio support dramatically increasing their fanbase. The first single from Drone, "Rain" was a southern regional break-out on radio. (No payola either!)
The band won the Just Plain Folks Best Hard Rock Song award in 2000 and Best Hard Rock Album
award in 2001, and they’ve been nominated in those catagories again in 2002.

The band has released an E.P. This will be the newest release from Bloodroot since 1997. Weighed down is in rotation on Music Choice, the digital cable channel, judging by Johnny's royalty checks, (not huge, but they exist!).

Johnny Young - vocals, guitar

Johnny cut his teeth right out of school with former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor as the singer and keyboard player in his touring band. Yes, Johnny has been blind since he was 17. Since then, he has bruised his legs and his forehead on numerous stages across the North American continent and around the world, gigging, recording, producing, and even winning an Emmy Award. Besides Bloodroot, Johnny sings and plays keys in Kreisor. Among Johnny's production credits are a list of known and unknown artists too long to run away with here. His own bands have included the CMJ charting Dark Black Past, as well as Mudgod.

Johnny will be playing with Kreisor opening for UFO in Europe in November 2006.

Roman - bass and backing vocals

Bassist and backing vocalist, Roman has studied piano since the age of
5 leading him to a life of music which produced Numerous album credits
and touring experience for him, including Elektra records.
His eclectic sense of playing has given him to excellence in a
diverse style of rhythms and music. Studying eastern music to Jazz,
from Rock to Classical, as a player, composer and arranger, Roman has
found that his path has now lead him to Johnny Young, an equally
talented and diverse player.
"Our mission,-and we decide to accept it,- is to blow the doors
off the rock world, taking music and molding it into something people
haven't heard before!"

Ross Kantor - drums

Ross has been drumming long enough to fake out
Bloodroot into having him play.;-)
After studying various styles of music I just
can't deny my roots in rock, Thanks to my older
brother."thanks bro!"
Touring with Chaotic Past in the US and Europe,
And auditioning for the past two years finaly brought
the cream of the crop too Ross. "Auditioning is a great
way to find out where you stand with yourself if not
with others."
"I found out within the first few moments that Johnny
is a fertile well of ideas that was freeflowing."
It was very welcoming.

Ross is WAY too modest - he rocks his ass off!

Karl Wilcox - drums

Drummer and philosopher, Karl grew up in Birmingham, England. Playing drums in a rock band gave his life meaning. He began performing with Birmingham based bands, the first noticeable one being Requiem. Soon after, he was recruited by the noted British New Wave Of Heavy Metal pioneers, Diamond Head. After recordings and concerts with Diamond Head during the early nineties, he relocated to New York City and soon hooked up with Brooklyn band Dark Black Past, who besides having a killer live show, managed to chart on CMJ with no radio promotion. Life took him to California, pursuing shows and recordings with various bands as well as recently performing at Diamond Head's 25th Anniversary reunion shows. Karl has rocked with Johnny again in Bloodroot and has recorded several tracks on the new Bloodroot album.