Bman's Blues Report

[ album artwork ] The Bottle Rockets announce new album, song, tour The Bottle Rockets will release their new album  Bit Logic  on October 12th, 2018. The forthcoming full-length is the St. Louis quartet's first since 2015's South Broadway Athletic Club . The band recently teased a sneak preview song premiere of the album title track via Wide Open Country . In support of Bit Logic , the Bottle Rockets will continue to tour across the country, including an upcoming appearance at AmericanaFest in Nashville. Aug. 16 — El Dorado, Ark. — The Griffin Aug. 17 — Pocola, Okla. — Gilley’s at Choctaw Casino Aug. 18 — Reeds Spring, Mo. — Livin...

The Bottle Rockets Announce Reissue Package Remastered Reissues of Out-of-Print First Two Albums Bottle Rockets and The Brooklyn Side released on November 19 SPIN.com launches exclusive premiere of bonus track “Indianapolis” (1991 Acoustic Demo with Uncle Tupelo’s Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar) -- “Before the Drive-By Truckers got in gear, when Ryan Adams was still settling in Whiskeytown, the Bottle Rockets were setting off musical M-80s as perhaps the most underappreciated roots-rock/Americana band of the mid-‘90s.” – REUTERS/HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ­ -- The Bottle Rockets ( https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/bottle-rockets ) are reissuing their long out-of-print, first two albums Bottle Rockets and The Brooklyn Side on November 19 via Bloodshot Records (pre-order is available here ). This is the 20 th anniversary of the 1993 release of the band’s debut, self-titled album. http://www.spin.com/articles/bottle-rockets-indianapolis-unc...

I just reviewed the new to be released Bottle Rockets recording. It's a stretch to call it blues but more roots music but it is well done and enjoyable. RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 16, 2011 The Bottle Rockets have been making some of the most incisive, literate and lighter-raising American music for going on eighteen years now. And some of the loudest, with a reputation built on a rough and tumble snarl honed by a thousand nights on stages around the world. But that only speaks to part of the story of the Bottle Rockets. So many bands, when you unplug the amps, you find that the emperor has no clothes, that the songs collapse in the quiet; it was the thrill of the tables rattling and ears ringing that sold the goods; the cold of the beer, the heat of the moment. Not So Loud, recorded in an acoustic setting at a 19th century schoolhouse in their home base of St. Louis, reveals a body of work steeped in the history of, and fitting easily into, the finest traditions of American folk music....