The Style

The Bottle Rockets are an explosive Alternative Country Rock band from Festus, Missouri. The band's style is an odd yet fulfilling mixture of elements that only a handful of bands can match. Though it is rather difficult to classify the Bottle Rockets' style, they are usually placed in a genre called 'Alternative Country' or 'No Depression.' Other 'No Depression' bands include Son Volt, Wilco, the Jayhawks, and Uncle Tupelo, all of which are characterized by their stylistic mixture of rock and country.

The Bottle Rockets meld their core heavy rock sound with the honesty of the classic country ballad, then add their critically aclaimed everyday observations on small-town life. The result is rock 'n roll as potent as Led Zepplin, southern rock spontenaity as vibrant as Lynard Skynard, and country sensability as to-the-point as George Strait. And there's enough clever pop hooks and punk energy alongside it all to be downright overwhelming. In an era where music has grown all too corporate and stagnant, the Bottle Rockets remind us what life, and good old-fashioned rock 'n roll, is all about.

The Band

The band members are:

• Brian Henneman (guitar, lead vocals), their primary songwriter,
• Tom Parr (guitar, vocals), penned several Bottle Rockets tunes including Dohack Joe from '24 Hours A Day,' and Take Me To The Bank and What More Can I Do?, both from 'The Brooklyn Side,' sang lead vocals on Dohack Joe and What More Can I Do?
• Robert Kearns (bass), just joined the band, replaces Tom V. Ray on bass,
• Mark Ortmann (drums), wrote a couple of songs for the band including One Of You from '24 Hours A Day.'

Other major contributions:

• Bob Parr penned the single Radar Gun from 'The Brooklyn Side,' Waiting On A Train from '24 Hours A Day,' and Rural Route from 'Bottle Rockets,'
• Scott Taylor co-wrote many of Brian's songs on 'The Brooklyn Side' and several tracks on 'Bottle Rockets' and '24 Hours A Day,' usually writing the lyrics to Brian's music.

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