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BOTTLE ROCKETS - LEAN FORWARD (LP)

The Bottle Rockets Lean Forward On Vinyl LP + Digital Drop Card With Bonus Non-Album Tracks

“Back before the Drive-By Truckers got it in gear, when Ryan Adams was still settling in Whiskeytown, the Bottle Rockets were setting off musical M-80s as perhaps the most underappreciated roots-rock/ Americana band of the mid-90s.” — Reuters

Lean Forward continues the Bottle Rockets’ creative resurgence ignited by 2006’s Zoysia. Reunited with producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (who ran the knobs on the Bottle Rockets’ seminal albums The Brooklyn Side and 24 Hours A Day), the Bottle Rockets do what no other band does better, look into the hearts and minds and faces of the dying small towns in America and crafts populist anthems with the sympathetic eye of Woody Guthrie and sonic stomp of Crazy Horse. They are songs that demand the windows be rolled down and the volume turned up. And with the hooks, you’ll wonder how they make such problems sound so good.

Lean Forward is stacked with a sharp lyricism and gritty fatalism that looks off the front porch for inspiration, and has the locked down groove of a band on top of its game. “The Long Way” looks on the bright side of the path not intentionally taken and works into a joyous song-ending jam. Songs like “Done It All Before” and “Get on the Bus” shine with an irresistible buoyancy, as does “Shame on Me” which gets to the meat of the relationship matter that, despite our best intentions, we’re all gonna screw up. “Hard Times” whips up a ZZ Top-inflected boogie with effortless mastery and a dual guitar attack.

Limited LP pressing includes digital drop card with bonus non-album tracks.

Bottle Rockets Lean Forward Track Listing

1. The Long Way
2. Shame On me
3. Nothin’ But a Driver
4. Hard Times
5. Done It all Before
6. Open Your Eyes
7. Kid Next Door
8. The Way It Used to Be
9. Get On the Bus
10. Slip Away
11. Solitaire
12. Give Me Room