Bloom by Billy Pilgrim

Bloom, the second album from Atlanta folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim, came out on Atlantic in 1995. Andrew Hyra and Kristian Bush, who took their band's name from the time-traveling antihero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, deal in bright, strummy acoustic rock built around big, open choruses, the kind that sound best through a rolled-down car window.

"Sweet Louisiana Sound" was the first single and a minor radio hit, a breezy, rolling tune that kept resurfacing on rock radio's countdowns years later. The pair worked the album hard on the road, sharing bills with Blessid Union of Souls and labelmate Mary Karlzen, and it reached 37 on the Heatseekers chart. It wasn't enough: Atlantic dropped them the following year.

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