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January 30, 2002

Bottle Rockets Sing Sahm

Tribute to late roots rocker due in late-February

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Like most members of the alternative-country club, the Bottle Rockets (St. Louis chapter) and Old 97's (Dallas chapter) have learned their music history backward. Starting with punk rock's door-opening conceit that anyone might play music, they have worked through Skynyrd to Waylon and Willie, then...

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The Bottle Rockets, from rural Missouri, are the thinking person's hillbilly bar band. At their best, they bridge the worlds of the hicks and the hippies, blues junkies and potheads, Motorhead and Hank Williams. The songs of singer-guitarist Brian Henneman are odes to blue-collar rednecks, trailer-park denizens, and divorcees who solve their problems by downing shots, flinging fists, driving fast,...

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