Artist Of The Week-Bottle Rockets

[4sooner]

This was posted on BRox Facebook page:

Dylan had The Heartbreakers, Neil Young had Pearl Jam, Marshall Crenshaw has The Bottle Rockets. Watch for tour dates coming soon. We'll be opening the shows, and playing as his band. Stay tuned...

Hell, maybe this will finally get them down to Okla.
Marshall Crenshaw is a very good songwriter, and we know how this band will rock. Sounds very interesting.

[Tequila Cowboy]

This was posted on BRox Facebook page:

Dylan had The Heartbreakers, Neil Young had Pearl Jam, Marshall Crenshaw has The Bottle Rockets. Watch for tour dates coming soon. We'll be opening the shows, and playing as his band. Stay tuned...

Hell, maybe this will finally get them down to Okla.
Marshall Crenshaw is a very good songwriter, and we know how this band will rock. Sounds very interesting.

Loved Marshall Crenshaw back in the day, have not kept up with him over the years though. This one looks like a must see in 2011.

[beantownbubba]

Love(d) Crenshaw (i too don't know what he's been up to recently), love the brox, but i'm not hearing this. Obviously they're all accomplished professionals and they'll make it work at some level, but it doesn't seem like an intuitive match to me. Count me intrigued as opposed to incredibly excited.

[Clams]

Some mainstream recognition for the Bottle Rox...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... l?hpt=Sbin

[4sooner]

Thanks clams. Nice read.
still blows me away that BH is still riding the bus to a day job.

[cortez the killer]

They will be touring with James McMurtry in March & April.

Thur Mar 24
Bottleneck (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Lawrence, KS

Fri Mar 25
Mojo's (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Columbia, MO

Sat Mar 26
The Pageant (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
St. Louis, MO

Tue Mar 29
High Dive (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Champaign, IL

Wed Mar 30
High Noon (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Madison, WI

Thur Mar 31
Pizza Luce (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Duluth, MN

Sat. Apr 2
People's Court (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Des Moines, IA

Sun Apr 3
Waiting Room (w/ The Bottle Rockets)
Omaha, NE

[Kudzu Guillotine]

With all due respect to Marshall Crenshaw, I'd much rather see the Bottle Rockets on a bill with McMurtry. That said, the last time the Bottle Rockets played here I was pretty much underwhelmed. The first set was all new material which probably didn't help them build up any momentum. By the time they had started to catch fire with more familiar songs in the second set, it was too little, too late.

[Will]

One of my favorite bands. Here's a little story about what great guys they are, too: I got engaged on New Year's Day this year. To set the mood, I'd put together a playlist. The last song that played before I got out the ring was the Bottle Rockets' "Pot of Gold." (FYI: R.E.M.'s "At My Most Beautiful" played as I asked the question.).

We already had plans to see the Brox at their show at Smiths the next weekend. The next day, I found Brian Henneman on Facebook and sent him a message, asking if they could play the song at the show , and told him why. He wrote me back within five minutes, and told me to consider it done. At the show that Friday, about half an hour into the show, Brian said "this next song comes to us via the power of the Internet. There's no radio anymore, so the Internet is really the only way to make requests. This is a true request--this song originally wasn't in the setlist, but a guy wrote to me and told me he just got engaged and asked us to play it." I hadn't told my fiancee about this, and she just about melted.

Unbelievably cool thing for them to do, and the whole show rocked, as they always do. Plus, I think we're going to use "Pot of Gold" for our first dance song now, too.

[cortez the killer]

Very cool story Will. Henneman comes off as a totally cool guy.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Very cool story Will. Henneman comes off as a totally cool guy.

Seconded. Last Spring when the DBTs played in Wilmington, NC and my present to my nephew was a ticket to his first ever DBTs show, I very seriously considered putting in a request for "Birthday Boy". I'm glad I didn't as the sorry motherfucker drove back home from Wilmington that afternoon without even bothering to tell me. Yeah, I'm still slightly pissed off about it.

[Clams]

Today's No Depression email has a link to an old B Rox article...

Bottle Rockets
Dirty white boys got the red wine country blues
By Jeff Copetas
You get the feeling that Brian Henneman drinks Budweiser. You get the feeling he looks out the window of his home in Missouri and sees a hot, dusty neighborhood full of run-down cars whose tires squeal and kick up that aforementioned dust. He might remind you of a truck driver or a mechanic, maybe a gas station owner. You might not ever guess he’s the lead singer and guitarist for a quickly emerging country-rock band called the Bottle Rockets who pack a wallop the size of Bono’s head on record and even moreso onstage.

The band was assembled by Henneman, a proud native of Festus, MO, who now lives in St. Louis. Not that he’s lost touch with his small-town roots:

“I still go down there and cut Ma and Pa’s grass about once every two weeks or so,” he insists.



http://archives.nodepression.com/1995/0 ... try-blues/

[njMark]

Saw them at the North Star last November, had a terrible trip in, car overheated on 676 and ended up getting lost in a not so safe part of philly until I realized I had a GPS on my phone, got to the venue and realized it is about as big as a coat closet, after a bad opening act ( IMO), I was ready to bail since 8am was only about six hours away and a long work day to follow but I had never seen the Rockets live and was determined not to let the prior crap ruin the show. Well I was rewarded with a great show that I still think about because of two lines I heard that night, first was " now for some live whisker pullin, this is a folk song afterall" with the bass player on harmonica, and the opener " 16 years of a relatively good time is our version of success". Love the Bottle Rockets, thanks to Stephen King writing about them in EW when Zoysia came out or I never would have heard of them.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Here's a more recent article about the B-Rox (not, as the author says, "B-Rockets.")

http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/su ... drive.html

[sactochris]

Another amazing, yet criminally underrated American Rock n Roll band.

[Iowan]

Saw them "open" for McMurtry last night. What a great show. The band was damn tight and the setlist was my song for song perfect B-Rox setlist. They came into the crowd after their set to watch James and the boys, and my buddy and I chatted with the bass player a little bit. Very cool guy, and it was very obvious how much they were enjoying themselves. Good time.

[njMark]

That tour has to come east! I don't know how much JM tours out here but I would lie cheat and steal and then some to see that show.

[pallister]

Cover of "Walk On" w/ Jeff Tweedy on vocals (@ Schubas):



FUCK YEAH

I clicked on this thread to post about the one BR show I was at — and I come across this. I was just pumped to see the band that night, and then he brings up Tweedy out of nowhere. Tiniest venue I've ever seen a show, but certainly memorable.

[cortez the killer]

Bottle Rockets to release live acoustic album August 16th

[Rusty Shackleford]

Video of recent acoustic performance:

http://www.bottlerocketsmusic.com/musicfogsession/

[Sub]

it took me quite awhile to find the bottle rockets but it didnt take long for them to jump on my favorites list.

Great band

[dime in the gutter]

[Smitty]

8 Bottle Rockets bootlegs

[dime in the gutter]

otis gibbs podcast with brian henneman.

http://otisgibbs.com/episode-18-brian-henneman/

insightful interview.

[cortez the killer]

otis gibbs podcast with brian henneman.

http://otisgibbs.com/episode-18-brian-henneman/

insightful interview.

Just logged on to post this. Love his account of the early incarnation of Wilco hearing Trace for the 1st time. Fascinating interview.

[StevieRay]

otis gibbs podcast with brian henneman.

http://otisgibbs.com/episode-18-brian-henneman/

insightful interview.

Just logged on to post this. Love his account of the early incarnation of Wilco hearing Trace for the 1st time. Fascinating interview.

Really enjoying this. Thanks for posting.

"...and it was just like: ooohh fuck." (after hearing Trace)

and

"...Todd Snider messed up Chuck's time." (hilarious story about Chuck Berry)

folks - this is worth a listen for sure.

[cortez the killer]

I'll puke if that jukebox plays John Cougar one more time
Great little piece on the Bottle Rockets over on The Adios Lounge. Also includes a download the original 7'' pictured above.

[Clams]

I'll puke if that jukebox plays John Cougar one more time
Great little piece on the Bottle Rockets over on The Adios Lounge. Also includes a download the original 7'' pictured above.

Cool piece.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Interview with Mark Ortmann:

http://whopperjaw.net/bottle-rockets/

They're re-releasing the self-titled and The Brooklyn Side with bonus material and working on a DVD. Awesome.

[cortez the killer]

Excellent news. Thanks for the heads-up, Rusty.

[Clams]

Just preordered this...

Bottle Rockets and The Brooklyn Side are collected here as a remastered two-CD deluxe reissue set of the long out-of-print albums, with an additional 19 previously unreleased tracks. The package consists of an extensive 40-page booklet detailing the band in full context of the ‘90s alt- scene, with editorial contributions from respected peers and fellow musicians such as Steve Earle, Patterson Hood,Lucinda Williams, and many others. Both reissued albums and bonus material have been meticulously remastered under the supervision of famed producer and musician Eric “Roscoe” Ambel.

Comes out next month. Get it here:
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/ ... de-reissue