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Oct 14 19:14 UTC 1998

Twila Price asked for a family tree for Blood Oranges.
 
Blood Oranges were Jimmy Ryan (mandolin), Mark Spencer (guitar) and 
Cheri Knight (bass).  The band spans 1987-1992; they broke up just weeks
before a show at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.   (I find one web citation 
for a 1994 split.)  The band predated the alt.country scene 
and didn't make any money; Cheri Knight says this was the cause of the 
split, in an interview in the webzine Country Standard Time.
 
Cheri Knight went off to have a solo career; her first release, 
THE KNITTER (1995) I found boring.  This year's album, THE NORTHEAST 
KINGDOM, I like a lot.  I suspect Steve Earle's presence has a lot to 
do with it; the album sounds a lot like the new Lucinda Williams 
album, also produced by Earle.
 
Jimmy Ryan recorded several albums for the ESD label, all of which are now 
out of print.  He formed a slightly purer bluegrass band, the Beacon 
Hillbillies, with guitarist John McGann.   The first album, which I think
was called BEACON HILLBILLIES, dates from around 1990, 
and I don't remember thinking much of it.  
The second album, MORE SONGS OF LOVE AND MURDER, 
drifts back to more of a bluegrass-rock style and I have been enjoying 
it a lot.   The third album, A BETTER PLACE, I got in the Schoolkids 
closing sale and I have not played it yet.

Jimmy Ryan teamed with Oranges guitarist Mark Spencer in another band, 
Wooden Leg.  They have a 1995 self-titled release, again mostly 
bluegrass/rock.  The webpage at www.hellcountry.com reports that 
guitarist Spencer has been replaced by a fiddler.

That's all the recorded spinoffs I know about.