The Bottle Rockets: The Brooklyn Side
Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 19 October 1995
ON THEIR MAJOR-LABEL DEBUT, the Bottle Rockets achieve what Lynyrd Skynyrd often tried to do but never quite pulled off. Without sacrificing their identity as a proud blue-collar rock & roll band, the Bottle Rockets obliterate the redneck stereotype that has long been attached to Southern-style rock. This Festus, Mo., band's down-home roots flow naturally from the chunky rhythms, slide guitar, fiddle, mandolins and warm Ronnie Van Zant-like vocals that weave through The Brooklyn Side. Yet frontman Brian Henneman also brings an unambiguous social consciousness to his songs.
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