The Blood Oranges were an American alternative country band that formed in the late 1980s.The founding members were Jim Ryan (multi-instrumentalist and vocals), Bob Kendall (bass guitar) then replaced by Liz Wood (later Liz Crawley) (bass guitar, vocals), Mark Spencer (guitar), and Ron Ward (drums). Cheri Knight took over in 1990 after Crawley moved to Wisconsin. Between 1990 and 1994 they released two full albums (Corn River, The Crying Tree) and one EP (Lone Green Valley).