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Brand New Year (The Bottle Rockets album)
1999 studio album by the Bottle Rockets From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brand New Year is an album by the American band the Bottle Rockets, released in 1999.[1][2] The first single was "Nancy Sinatra".[3] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4]
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Production
After leaving Atlantic Records, the Bottle Rockets decided to focus on recording a rock album, concluding that their recent rock songs were stronger than their country ones.[5] Brand New Year was produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel.[6] Many its songs were inspired by people and stories from the band's hometown of Festus, Missouri.[7] Bass player Robert Kearns joined the band prior to the recording sessions.[5] The band and Ambel listened to Shania Twain's Come On Over during the sessions and decorated the studio with Twain posters and artwork; frontman Brian Henneman thought that the band was the loosest it had been in a studio.[8][9] The title track appears in two versions, one electric and one acoustic; Henneman half-jokingly likened it to a "Hey Hey, My My" effort, saying that it was an attempt to give thematic weight to the album.[10] "Gotta Get Up" is about the unchanging daily grind of work.[11] "Headed for the Ditch" alludes to Neil Young's Decade liner notes.[12] "White Boy Blues" is about old guitars that are so expensive that only very wealthy consumers can afford them.[13]
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Critical reception
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The Chicago Tribune called the Bottle Rockets "the thinking person's hillbilly bar band".[21] The Village Voice said that the band uses "foursquare riffs and dual-lead lines to kick up some boogie dust in their wake-kinda like Georgia Satellites, but with real grime under their fingernails."[22] Stereo Review concluded, "When a roots-rock band's songs start wearing hangdog expressions, the sense of unbridled fun that is the genre's calling card is lost."[23] Spin noted that "it's easy to mistake the Bottle Rockets for a musical goof."[19]
The Independent said that "one of America's very best bar bands return with a darker, denser and generally louder disc, with their biting humour intact."[24] Robert Christgau praised "Headed for the Ditch" and "Gotta Get Up".[16] The Lincoln Journal Star called the Bottle Rockets "America's last great rock 'n' roll band."[17] The Chicago Sun-Times labeled the album the band's "grungiest set of bar rock yet".[15] The Santa Fe New Mexican included Brand New Year on its list of the 20 best albums of 1999.[25]
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