http://twangville.com/1366/the-bottle-rockets-lean-forward/ Because spoon-fed music sucks and twang is cheaper than therapy. Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://twangville.com/1366/the-bottle-rockets-lean-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-95276 Mayer’s Playlist from July 2009 - Twangville Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:01:55 +0000 http://twangville.com/?p=1366#comment-95276 [...] Lean Forward, by The Bottle Rockets Now that summer has finally arrived, it’s a good time to pick out the summer albums. It starts with the latest from the pride of Festus, Missouri, The Bottle Rockets. Lead songwriter Brian Henneman is a pop songwriter masquerading as an alt-country musician. And summer is made for sunshine and pop songs. The quartet roar out of the gate with “The Long Way,” a furious rocker that has Henneman proclaiming, “the long way isn’t the wrong way, and a wrong turn isn’t the end, if it’s understood maybe something good is coming at you ‘round the bend.” What is surprising across the release is the soul and, dare I say, funky feel to several of the tracks. “Slip Away,” for example, features a touch of organ to give it a soulful hangin’ in the backyard feel. “Hard Times” and “Get On the Bus” move with a funky groove, the latter track morphing into a proper hoe-down by its end. Part of the albums charm is the presence of keyboards across many of the tracks. While there is never any doubt that the Bottle Rockets are a rock and roll band, the expanded instrumentation gives the album a refreshing quality. Kinda like the feel one gets opening a PBR on hot summer afternoon. (See Shawn’s take on Lean Forward here.) [...] [...] Lean Forward, by The Bottle Rockets Now that summer has finally arrived, it’s a good time to pick out the summer albums. It starts with the latest from the pride of Festus, Missouri, The Bottle Rockets. Lead songwriter Brian Henneman is a pop songwriter masquerading as an alt-country musician. And summer is made for sunshine and pop songs. The quartet roar out of the gate with “The Long Way,” a furious rocker that has Henneman proclaiming, “the long way isn’t the wrong way, and a wrong turn isn’t the end, if it’s understood maybe something good is coming at you ‘round the bend.” What is surprising across the release is the soul and, dare I say, funky feel to several of the tracks. “Slip Away,” for example, features a touch of organ to give it a soulful hangin’ in the backyard feel. “Hard Times” and “Get On the Bus” move with a funky groove, the latter track morphing into a proper hoe-down by its end. Part of the albums charm is the presence of keyboards across many of the tracks. While there is never any doubt that the Bottle Rockets are a rock and roll band, the expanded instrumentation gives the album a refreshing quality. Kinda like the feel one gets opening a PBR on hot summer afternoon. (See Shawn’s take on Lean Forward here.) [...]

]]>