The final in the Bottle Rockets Demo Trilogy. This one is from 1990 and features a few songs that will be familiar to B-Rox fans. The majority of these however however have never been released officially. Shame too cause there are some good songs on here. 
The second Bottle Rockets demo of the trilogy I will be posting. Kind of a followup to the Uncle Tupelo demo trilogy. This one is Brian Henneman backed by Jay and Jeff from Uncle Tupelo. Really cool banjo version of "Wave That Flag" on here with what I'm assuming to be Jay Farrar on the banjo. 
You didn't know it, but you're smack dab in the middle of a 4th of July post extravaganza here at A Truer Sound. And well, what's else says 4th of July better than bottle rockets? Unfortunately these bottle rockets here won't blow your thumbs off, only rock your socks off. This is a demo that I am not really sure where I even got. I can't find any info on it but it's a great demo of one the seminal Alt Country albums The Brooklyn Side. The demos here are a more subdued affair than the rocking Brooklyn Side, but very very cool, and quite a few unreleased songs. Really love the little intros to the songs too....such as the intro to I'll Be Comin' Around where Henneman explains the song is the result of listening to too much fleetwood mac while thinking about his friends girlfriend. Really love the last song on this thing "Gravity" as well. Don't know why it has never made it to an official album.
Heres a decent Bottle Rockets boot. Starts out with a lot of echo on the vocals, but it smooths out (or you get used to it) after a bit. Cool version of Radar Gun on here too.
OK, we're having a 4th of July blowout on Bottle Rockets!! The Bottle Rockets are the band of former Uncle Tupelo roadie/member Brian Henneman. He formed The Bottle Rockets just before Uncle Tupelo broke up and they actually opened for them on their final show (which I will be posting sometime soon). So in that respect, The Bottle Rockets are another band formed in the wake of Uncle Tupelo.....Son Volt, Wilco, & The Bottle Rockets.....the Big 3. Of those 3, the B-Rox are probably the most straigtforward rock band.....mid west style roots rock that is, and their first 3 albums are among the best in the whole genre of this thing somebody decided to call alt-country. Check out the song 'Radar Gun', one of my favorite songs of theirs off their 1995 masterpiece "The Brooklyn Side". If that don't make you a fan, well maybe 'Welfare Music' will, off the same album. The B-Rox are still going strong too, still touring, still putting out albums, check the links below.
I got a request for some live Bottle Rockets, well I'll get to that, but here is a killer Brian Henneman solo show. Brian Henneman is the leader of the Bottle Rockets, and he writes all their songs.....he also used to play with Uncle Tupelo and is all over Wilco's first album (you know the one that doesn't completely suck :P). The Bottle Rockets are a great band, and if you're not familiar with them, I will be doing a sampler of them here soon. This is also a good intro to them, though it's not quite as rockin' as they can be.
This is a great live album from one of the most rockingest bands out there today, The Bottle Rockets. Standout tracks include killer versions of Indianapolis, Gas Girl, a smokin' version of Thousand Dollar Car, an IN-fucking-CREDIBLE version of Waitin' On A Train, and some great covers of Doug Sahm (Crossroads, She's About A Mover) and Neil Young (Hey Hey-My My, Cortez The Killer). This is The Bottle Rockets at their best right here.....the only let down is no Radar Gun......what's up with that Henneman?
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