The Bottle Rockets formed in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1993 and quickly rose to prominence in the Americana/Alt-Country genre on the strength of their uniquely-crafted songs about everyday life. While earning early notoriety for their legendarily raucous live shows, the Bottle Rockets have built their career on their innovative songwriting, which has garnered them critical praise and tremendous fan loyalty. Featuring a variety of singer/songwriters blending a range of styles, the songs of the Bottle Rockets defy easy categorization and reward repeated listening. Incorporating influences from folk, country and hard rock, the Bottle Rockets have released an impressive portfolio of studio albums filled with great songs, developed a devoted fan following, and shared stages with some of the biggest names in music. If you’ve never heard the Bottle Rockets, thinking of them as “John Prine and Crazy Horse” would put you in the ballpark, but to fully appreciate their genius, you’ve simply got to listen.

On their new album, Zoysia, The Bottle Rockets channel some serious cascading Crazy Horse squall, nail the scruffy, romantic, dirty-fingernail rock of the Midwest, and soak up the soulful vibes that ooze from the cement blocks in the Memphis studios where they recorded the album. Lyrically, the band's underdog outlook finds the optimism and the resignation behind worlds far away, or just on the other side of the screen door. Add it all up and you get something all its own -- something pure Bottle Rockets.