Blood Meridian was a Canadian alternative country band based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
[1] The band consisted of singer and songwriter Matt Camirand, guitarist Jeff Lee, keyboardist Shira Blustein, bassist Kevin Grant and drummer Joshua Wells.
The band was named for Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West.
[7] In July 2006, they released their second album, Kick Up the Dust[8] on Outside Music in Canada,[9] and internationally on V2 Records.
[13] In 2009, Blood Meridian played Emergenza, the world's largest festival of unsigned bands.