10303 - THE BOTTLE ROCKETS - SOUTH BROADWAY ATHLETIC CLUB (2015)
THE BOTTLE ROCKETS
''SOUTH BROADWAY ATHLETIC CLUB''
OCTOBER 2 2015
36:43
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1 Monday (Everytime I Turn Around) 03:45
2 Big Lotsa Love 02:42
3 I Don't Wanna Know 02:54
4 Big Fat Nuthin' 02:28
5 Dog 02:20
6 Something Good (Brian Henneman, Aaron Henningsen, Clara Henningsen) 04:05
7 Building Chryslers 05:56
8 Smile 02:25
9 XOYOU 02:27
10 Ship It On the Frisco 05:03
11 Shape Of A Wheel (Eric Ambel, Brian Henneman, Mark Ortmann) 02:32
Tracks By Brian Henneman, Except 6, 11
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Eric Ambel/Guitars, Vocals
Rob Arthur/Accordion
Brian Henneman/Guitar, Sitar (Electric), Vocals
John Horton/Guitar, Slide Guitar
Mark Ortmann/Drums, Percussion
Carl Pandolfi/Organ
Keith Voegele/Bass Guitar, Vocals
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
More than two decades on from the Bottle Rockets' debut album, Brian Henneman is still the best and most articulate working stiff in rock & roll, a songwriter who can speak for the regular guy who punches a time clock with greater honesty and understanding than practically anyone who professes to be The Voice Of The People. (Bruce Springsteen certainly means well, but when was the last time he actually had to think about coming up with the rent money?) The Bottle Rockets' tenth studio album, 2015's South Broadway Athletic Club, not only attests that Henneman's lyrical voice rings as true as ever, it's an excellent example of Grown Up Rock & Roll, unforced but passionate country-influenced rock that both musically and lyrically speaks of a richly lived life and the challenges of making one's way in a world filled with both victories and defeats. The Bottle Rockets understand a world where Monday's shadow always seems to be lurking around the corner, sloth is sometimes not born of laziness but the reward at the end of a punishing week, love is hard work whether it goes good or bad, and sometimes surviving to another day is the most you can ask out of life. The rough edges of Henneman's voice are made to order for this batch of songs, and he and his bandmates -- John Horton on guitars, Keith Voegele on bass, and Mark Ortmann on drums -- rock with a little less muscle than they did in the '90s, but with the same no-nonsense melodic punch and six-string swagger that marked their classic era. Even the album's one lyrical misstep -- "Building Chryslers," a number about a lackadaisical auto worker that seems like an artifact from another era when the auto industry was still strong enough to support overpaid slackers, hardly the case in the 21st century -- is filled with enough passion to connect, and the long ride out contains some of the album's most satisfying guitar fireworks. South Broadway Athletic Club seems like a typical Bottle Rockets album on the surface, but dig a bit deeper and you'll find a set of songs as strong and emotionally powerful as anything this band has delivered since 24 Hours a Day, and if you need to be reminded that this is one of America's best and most underappreciated rock bands, spin this once and see if you don't feel like spinning it again right away.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Ankeny
Festus, Missouri's Bottle Rockets ranked as one of the leading lights of the 1990s roots rock revival, thanks to a sound that bypassed the punk heritage proudly upheld by most of the band's contemporaries in favor of a redneck fusion of Southern boogie, country-folk, and crunching rock & roll. The group was fronted by singer/guitarist Brian Henneman, a Missouri native who formed his first band, Waylon Van Halen & the Ernest Tubbadours, in 1977 with friends Tom and Bob Parr. After a succession of names and a steady rise in musical competence, the threesome began landing club dates both locally and in Illinois, where they became friends with the young Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, who would later start Uncle Tupelo.
In 1985, the trio was playing straight-ahead honky tonk under the guise of Chicken Truck (so named in honor of the John Anderson song) with a new drummer, Mark Ortmann. Instead of giving in to local crowds who wanted to hear covers rather than originals, the bandmembers focused solely on performing their own material, which they began roughing up with a Crazy Horse-like edge. Shortly after frequent tour mates Uncle Tupelo signed a 1990 record deal, however, internal problems led Chicken Truck to disband; while the Parrs returned to civilian jobs, Ortmann moved to Nashville to become a session player, and Henneman became a roadie with Uncle Tupelo, even playing on their March 16-20, 1992 album.
During his roadie days, Henneman recorded a demo tape of new material, which Tupelo manager Tony Margherita began discreetly shopping around. After cutting a solo single backed by Farrar and Tweedy, he re-formed his old band with Ortmann on drums, Tom Ray on guitar, and Robert Kearns on bass, renaming the outfit the Bottle Rockets. After a 1993 self-titled effort, a year later the band issued its second independent LP, The Brooklyn Side, named after a bowling term. A portrait of life in rural blue-collar America, The Brooklyn Side was the subject of lavish critical praise, and the positive notices led to the band signing with a major label, Atlantic, which promptly reissued the album.
Shakeups at the label led to delays in the release of their next album, 1997's 24 Hours a Day, and when the album sold poorly, the Bottle Rockets were dropped. In 1998 they signed with the small Doolittle label and released an odds-and-ends EP, Leftovers; by the time they completed their next album, 1999's Brand New Year, the label had gained major-label distribution, but that deal proved to be short-lived, and in 2000 the Bottle Rockets were once again without a label. In 2001 they signed a deal with alt-country trailblazers Bloodshot Records; their first album for the label, a tribute to Doug Sahm, was released early the following year. Tom Ray left the Bottle Rockets in 2002, and the band moved ahead as a three-piece, signing yet another new record deal -- this time with Sanctuary -- in 2003, and releasing a new album, Blue Sky, in the fall of that year. Zoysia arrived on Bloodshot Records in 2006, followed by Lean Forward in 2009.
In 2011 the band released Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening, which was recorded in an old schoolhouse and featured material drawn from all eras of the band's history. By now, the group once again had a stable lineup, with Henneman and Ortmann joined by guitarist John Horton and bassist Keith Voegele. In 2012 the Bottle Rockets teamed up with Marshall Crenshaw for a series of tour dates, with the Bottle Rockets playing a full set as openers and then backing Crenshaw for the second half of the show. In 2013 Bloodshot brought out a deluxe reissue of the Bottle Rockets' first two albums, accompanied by rare bonus material and endorsements from a handful of well-known fans. As the Bottle Rockets continued to play short tours with Crenshaw, they began previewing new material in their sets, and in October 2015 they released a new album produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, South Broadway Athletic Club.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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''SOUTH BROADWAY ATHLETIC CLUB''
OCTOBER 2 2015
36:43
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1 Monday (Everytime I Turn Around) 03:45
2 Big Lotsa Love 02:42
3 I Don't Wanna Know 02:54
4 Big Fat Nuthin' 02:28
5 Dog 02:20
6 Something Good (Brian Henneman, Aaron Henningsen, Clara Henningsen) 04:05
7 Building Chryslers 05:56
8 Smile 02:25
9 XOYOU 02:27
10 Ship It On the Frisco 05:03
11 Shape Of A Wheel (Eric Ambel, Brian Henneman, Mark Ortmann) 02:32
Tracks By Brian Henneman, Except 6, 11
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Eric Ambel/Guitars, Vocals
Rob Arthur/Accordion
Brian Henneman/Guitar, Sitar (Electric), Vocals
John Horton/Guitar, Slide Guitar
Mark Ortmann/Drums, Percussion
Carl Pandolfi/Organ
Keith Voegele/Bass Guitar, Vocals
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
More than two decades on from the Bottle Rockets' debut album, Brian Henneman is still the best and most articulate working stiff in rock & roll, a songwriter who can speak for the regular guy who punches a time clock with greater honesty and understanding than practically anyone who professes to be The Voice Of The People. (Bruce Springsteen certainly means well, but when was the last time he actually had to think about coming up with the rent money?) The Bottle Rockets' tenth studio album, 2015's South Broadway Athletic Club, not only attests that Henneman's lyrical voice rings as true as ever, it's an excellent example of Grown Up Rock & Roll, unforced but passionate country-influenced rock that both musically and lyrically speaks of a richly lived life and the challenges of making one's way in a world filled with both victories and defeats. The Bottle Rockets understand a world where Monday's shadow always seems to be lurking around the corner, sloth is sometimes not born of laziness but the reward at the end of a punishing week, love is hard work whether it goes good or bad, and sometimes surviving to another day is the most you can ask out of life. The rough edges of Henneman's voice are made to order for this batch of songs, and he and his bandmates -- John Horton on guitars, Keith Voegele on bass, and Mark Ortmann on drums -- rock with a little less muscle than they did in the '90s, but with the same no-nonsense melodic punch and six-string swagger that marked their classic era. Even the album's one lyrical misstep -- "Building Chryslers," a number about a lackadaisical auto worker that seems like an artifact from another era when the auto industry was still strong enough to support overpaid slackers, hardly the case in the 21st century -- is filled with enough passion to connect, and the long ride out contains some of the album's most satisfying guitar fireworks. South Broadway Athletic Club seems like a typical Bottle Rockets album on the surface, but dig a bit deeper and you'll find a set of songs as strong and emotionally powerful as anything this band has delivered since 24 Hours a Day, and if you need to be reminded that this is one of America's best and most underappreciated rock bands, spin this once and see if you don't feel like spinning it again right away.
**********
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Ankeny
Festus, Missouri's Bottle Rockets ranked as one of the leading lights of the 1990s roots rock revival, thanks to a sound that bypassed the punk heritage proudly upheld by most of the band's contemporaries in favor of a redneck fusion of Southern boogie, country-folk, and crunching rock & roll. The group was fronted by singer/guitarist Brian Henneman, a Missouri native who formed his first band, Waylon Van Halen & the Ernest Tubbadours, in 1977 with friends Tom and Bob Parr. After a succession of names and a steady rise in musical competence, the threesome began landing club dates both locally and in Illinois, where they became friends with the young Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, who would later start Uncle Tupelo.
In 1985, the trio was playing straight-ahead honky tonk under the guise of Chicken Truck (so named in honor of the John Anderson song) with a new drummer, Mark Ortmann. Instead of giving in to local crowds who wanted to hear covers rather than originals, the bandmembers focused solely on performing their own material, which they began roughing up with a Crazy Horse-like edge. Shortly after frequent tour mates Uncle Tupelo signed a 1990 record deal, however, internal problems led Chicken Truck to disband; while the Parrs returned to civilian jobs, Ortmann moved to Nashville to become a session player, and Henneman became a roadie with Uncle Tupelo, even playing on their March 16-20, 1992 album.
During his roadie days, Henneman recorded a demo tape of new material, which Tupelo manager Tony Margherita began discreetly shopping around. After cutting a solo single backed by Farrar and Tweedy, he re-formed his old band with Ortmann on drums, Tom Ray on guitar, and Robert Kearns on bass, renaming the outfit the Bottle Rockets. After a 1993 self-titled effort, a year later the band issued its second independent LP, The Brooklyn Side, named after a bowling term. A portrait of life in rural blue-collar America, The Brooklyn Side was the subject of lavish critical praise, and the positive notices led to the band signing with a major label, Atlantic, which promptly reissued the album.
Shakeups at the label led to delays in the release of their next album, 1997's 24 Hours a Day, and when the album sold poorly, the Bottle Rockets were dropped. In 1998 they signed with the small Doolittle label and released an odds-and-ends EP, Leftovers; by the time they completed their next album, 1999's Brand New Year, the label had gained major-label distribution, but that deal proved to be short-lived, and in 2000 the Bottle Rockets were once again without a label. In 2001 they signed a deal with alt-country trailblazers Bloodshot Records; their first album for the label, a tribute to Doug Sahm, was released early the following year. Tom Ray left the Bottle Rockets in 2002, and the band moved ahead as a three-piece, signing yet another new record deal -- this time with Sanctuary -- in 2003, and releasing a new album, Blue Sky, in the fall of that year. Zoysia arrived on Bloodshot Records in 2006, followed by Lean Forward in 2009.
In 2011 the band released Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening, which was recorded in an old schoolhouse and featured material drawn from all eras of the band's history. By now, the group once again had a stable lineup, with Henneman and Ortmann joined by guitarist John Horton and bassist Keith Voegele. In 2012 the Bottle Rockets teamed up with Marshall Crenshaw for a series of tour dates, with the Bottle Rockets playing a full set as openers and then backing Crenshaw for the second half of the show. In 2013 Bloodshot brought out a deluxe reissue of the Bottle Rockets' first two albums, accompanied by rare bonus material and endorsements from a handful of well-known fans. As the Bottle Rockets continued to play short tours with Crenshaw, they began previewing new material in their sets, and in October 2015 they released a new album produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, South Broadway Athletic Club.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
**********
WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
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