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January 30, 2002

Bottle Rockets Sing Sahm

Tribute to late roots rocker due in late-February

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For much of the Nineties, Missouri's Bottle Rockets were the torchbearers for smart Southern-style rock. Here, they continue their recent return to form: Brian Henneman sings tenderly of dead soldiers ("Kid Next Door") and bad marriages, and "Get on the Bus" is a killer blue-collar defense of...

2009 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

24 Hours A Day

1997

The Brooklyn Side

1994

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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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