Bad Blood

In the midst of coping with family members suffering from mental illness, Ana Egge was compelled to write the songs featured on the 12-song, Steve Earle produced Bad Blood. She stated "It can be difficult to explain the realities of mental illness to people who don't have any firsthand experience. Loving someone whose reality ebbs and flows drastically from your own, you're constantly trying to imagine what they're thinking and feeling, but that's a crooked road. Sometimes there's no reason, there's no why." Bad Blood conveys compassion and hope for redemption. With Earle's driving production and Egge's lilting melodies, the songs belie the dark undercurrent of the subject matter. AOL Spinner stated "Bad Blood gives new life to the folk genre" while Lucinda Williams once called Ana "The Nina Simone of folk."