Bottle_Rockets

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Bottle Rockets The Bottle Rockets The Bottle Rockets Origin Genre(s) Festus, Missouri, United States Rock, roots rock, outlaw country, Southern rock, alternative country, alternative rock, cowpunk, heartland rock, classic rock 1992–present Bloodshot, Blue Rose www.bottlerocketsmusic.com Yourself", "Middle Man", "Rich Man in the Graveyard", and "The Kid Next Door" are examples of social commentary in the Bottle Rockets’ original hybrid Woody Guthrie meets Neil Young meets The Replacements American roots music sound.[4][8] Years active Label(s) Website Members History The 1990s The Bottle Rockets released their self-titled first album in 1993.[9] The Brooklyn Side followed on East Side Digital, in 1994, to resounding critical acclaim.[5] In 1995, the Bottle Rockets then signed with Atlantic Records, who re-released The Brooklyn Side. The single "Radar Gun" was a hit on rock radio and the band toured extensively to support the album. Songs "1000 Dollar Car" and "I’ll Be Comin’ Around" also caught on in popularity. The band appeared on the television show Late Night with Conan O’Brien performing one of their original songs as well as being featured in a comedic skit. The situation with Atlantic Records turned out to be less than ideal.[10] Most of the original staff who promoted The Brooklyn Side had been laid off or fired from Atlantic. The release of the Bottle Rockets’ next record, 24 Hours A Day, was delayed until late 1997. The band parted ways with Atlantic in 1998. The Bottle Rockets are featured in the PBS documentary The Mississippi River Of Song: The Grassroots of American Music.[11] In the series, which is narrated by Ani DiFranco, Brian Henneman surmises that he and the band are “reporters from the heartland” writing stories about their friends.[12][13] Their music combines singersongwriter poignancy with authenticity, commentary and wit. The Bottle Rockets performed live at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC at the premiere for the film, and also appear on the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings soundtrack.[14] Bottle Rockets then signed with Doolittle records, which has since developed into New West Records. Doolittle released an EP of outtakes from 24 Hours A Day called Brian Henneman Mark Ortmann John Horton Keith Voegele The Bottle Rockets is an American rock band formed in 1992, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. The founding members were Brian Henneman (guitar, vocals), Mark Ortmann [1] (drums), Tom Parr (1992-2002, guitar, vocals) and Tom Ray [2] (1992-1997, bass guitar). Current members are Henneman, Ortmann, John Horton (joined 2003, guitar) and Keith Voegele [3] (joined 2005, bass, vocals). Most members of the group have contributed compositions to their catalog of original songs, as have Robert Parr (Tom’s brother) and schoolteacher Scott Taylor (who writes lyrics for some of Henneman’s tunes). As noted in the New York Times by William Hogeland, the Bottle Rockets’ songwriting has been likened to Woody Guthrie’s folk style in spirit, smarts, and satire. Henneman’s, Ortmann’s, and Taylor’s lyrics succinctly and endearingly encapsulate the common experiences of the everyman, and are set to stirring, rousing, searing rock ’n’ roll.[4][5] Considered to be the godfathers of the ’90s alt-country/roots rock revival along with peers Uncle Tupelo, the Bottle Rockets are seasoned contemporary storytellers from Middle America.[6][7] Their songs "Welfare Music", "Kerosene", "Zoysia", "Baggage Claim", "Blind", "Wave That Flag", "Align 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leftovers in 1998. About this time, Tom Ray was replaced on bass by Robert Kearns. The Bottle Rockets’ fourth full length record, Brand New Year, was released on Doolittle in 1999. "Power hooks and muscular guitar fights that would make Skynyrd proud" and "’70s power rock with a dirty edge—sort of ZZ Top meets Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Bad Company" is the calling card of Brand New Year.[15] The Bottle Rockets intact. Founders Brian Henneman and Mark Ortmann got the band back on course, along with the newest additions John Horton and Keith Voegele, the current line-up of band members. The band also re-hired their manager from the early days, Bob Andrews.[23] 2006-2007 The Bottle Rockets’ first live album Live in Heilbronn Germany was released in February 2006. The double-disc set was recorded on July 17 2005 at the Burgerhaus, HeilbronnBockingen, Germany with the band’s current roster. It was released in Europe on CD and vinyl by Blue Rose Records. Bloodshot Records released the band’s next album, Zoysia, recorded in Ardent Studios in Memphis with producer Jeff Powell, in June 2006. Zoysia (zoy-zhuh), a metaphor for tolerance and centered values and common ground, is a hardy grass, plentiful in Festus/ Crystal City and Saint Louis, Missouri, where these hardworking musicians grew up. After years of misleading portrayals of the band’s music as "hillbilly",[24][25] the band’s catalog proves otherwise with themes of maturity, generosity of spirit, neighborliness, insightful self-reflection, personal roots and modern society, individualism, pride of place, slowmending hearts, and post-9/11 reality through the filter of a couple’s romance.[26] After more than their share of hard knocks,[27] the Bottle Rockets continued with their trailblazing edge intact with Zoysia: It would be a mistake to claim that Missouri’s answer to Neil Young’s Crazy Horse has gone soft but their first release in more than three years shows greater range and reflection than is typical for the rocksolid quartet. The opening "Better Than Broken", the brooding "Happy Anniversary", and the acoustic wistful "Where I Come From" all evoke the aftermath of romantic upheaval.... "Middle Man" could be the band’s signature tune defining a sensibility that is Middle American in more than geography. The sage wisdom of frontman Brian Henneman’s "Blind" and the twang of "Feeling Down" show the band’s countrier side while "I Quit" has the groove of retro soul. Yet the guitar 2000-2005 The band again had problems with their record label, and did not record anything else until Songs of Sahm, a collection of songs by Doug Sahm, which came out on Chicago label Bloodshot Records in early 2002.[16] Shortly after finishing this record, Parr left the band. Bottle Rockets toured as a three-piece for a while, and recorded their fifth full-length record Blue Sky (which was released in 2003 on the Sanctuary label), before adding multiinstrumentalist John Horton to the band. Kearns amicably split with the band in the spring of 2005. After a brief search the Bottle Rockets named Keith Voegele as their new bassist.[3] Voegele is from Saint Louis and has played in bands around the city including the Phonocaptors. After the Bottle Rockets’ promising eponymous debut, having a radio hit ("Radar Gun") on their second album, extensive touring, and resounding critical acclaim,[17] the band endured a decade of subsequent hard luck (including having their career held hostage to a staggering series of record companies they’d had contracts with that folded and/ or floundered, a UPS strike holding up distribution of one of their new records, band personnel changes, and family emergencies during prominent tours).[18][19][20] Concurrent with the band’s business difficulties, grunge and alternative rock meteorically came to prominence and dominated popular culture, becoming the corporate mainstream rather than the alternative. As a result, the music industry effectively abandoned traditional rock artists who were building a legacy of work, in favor of marketing trendy carbon-copy quickcommercial-turnaround acts.[21][22] The path Henneman and the Bottle Rockets had been on seemed to disappear. Despite those struggles, in 2005 the Bottle Rockets stabilized from the upheavals with their good nature and trailblazing edge 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia finale of the seven-minute albumclosing title song ["Zoysia"] finds the Bottle Rockets as explosive as ever. —Don McLeese Zoysia received rave reviews worldwide including a spot on novelist/audiophile Stephen King’s Best Records of 2006 list in Entertainment Weekly magazine.[28] The Bottle Rockets Forward, that will be released by Bloodshot Records in 2009.[36] 2009 On May 2, The Bottle Rockets played a special concert at the High Dive in Champaign, IL that was recorded for an upcoming live DVD release.[37] The set list included "Hard Times," "Done It All," "Shame On Me," "Give Me Room," "The Way It Used to Be" and "The Long Way" from the forthcoming Lean Forward album.[38] 2008: 15th Anniversary Year The band celebrated its 15th anniversary throughout 2008.[25] Instead of extensive touring like in previous years, the band played only 15 shows in select cities during the entire year. The Bottle Rockets’ reputation as the underdog spokesmen translated into a collaboration with fans in 2008.[29][30] Fans of the Bottle Rockets had a voice in the band’s 15th Anniversary Tour, having been invited to design set lists for the 2008 tour from the Bottle Rockets’ catalog plus one cover song suggestion. The band hand-picked a fan’s set list for each of the special anniversary shows and entered the set list winners in a yearlong contest to win one of 2 grand prizes, a $1500.00 custom Golden Rocket guitar by Creston Electric Instruments or the “Bottle Rockets for life” prize package.[31] The results of the first such collaboration were detailed by Roy Kasten and Barry Gilbert in their reviews of the performance, in the Riverfront Times and the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, respectively. [32][33] While other artists have covered Bottle Rockets’ songs, including John Hiatt, (Hiatt recorded “Welfare Music” for Don Imus’ Ranch Record), Peter Blackstock of No Depression implores: “...somebody, SOMEBODY record [the Bottle Rockets’ song] “Kerosene” on your next album. Big band, little band, country band, rock band,...punk band,...somebody just get smart and give this song the respect, and legs, it deserves." [34][35] In July 2008, The Bottle Rockets teamed up again with producer Eric Ambel (Brooklyn Side, 24 Hours A Day, Leftovers, Brand New Year) at his Cowboy Technical Services Recording Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York for their new album, Lean Discography Bottle Rockets record releases • Bottle Rockets, 1992 • The Brooklyn Side, 1994, re-released 1995 • 24 Hours A Day, 1997 • Leftovers, 1998 • Brand New Year, 1999 • Songs of Sahm, 2002 • Blue Sky, 2003 • Live in Heilbronn Germany, 2006 • Zoysia, 2006 • Upcoming release, Lean Forward, 2009 Compilations • The Mississippi: River Of Song. 2-CD Set, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1999. • Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson, Bloodshot Records 2004 • For A Decade Of Sin, Bloodshot Records 2005 • Hell Bent, Bloodshot Records 1995 Videography • Bottle Rockets Live in Heilbronn, Germany. Blue Rose References [1] "Undertow Music • View topic - Mark Ortmann Appreciation". 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