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Bottle Rockets

I just watched a piece on this bands site , an interview they did with CNN . Enjoyable enough but the sight of the band playing in relatively small venues got me wondering ...why didn't this band make it as big as their peers , like the Jayhawks or Wilco say , or very similar acts that came along just behind , ie Drive By Truckers ?

I used to love em back in the day , the first 2/3 albums rocked but then...they just sort of drifted away ....

Any thoughts ?

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Permalink Reply by steviedal on January 28, 2011 at 2:51pm

Dave gets to Scotland about once in a blue moon and i've never seen him live , one of the few artists i love but haven't caught live . Still , it'll happen someday.

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Permalink Reply by JoelB on January 28, 2011 at 1:21pm

I too got turned on to the BR at a Lucinda Williams show....amazing....found some of their stuff in the CD cut out bins shortly there after. They are one of music's best kept secrets.

Love 'em, wish they'd come this way....