Brand New Year (The Bottle Rockets album)
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| Brand New Year | ||||
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| Released | August 10, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Doolittle/Mercury | |||
| Producer | Eric "Roscoe" Ambel | |||
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Brand New Year is an album by the American band the Bottle Rockets, released on August 10, 1999.[1][2][3] The first single was "Nancy Sinatra".[4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
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.[6] Brand New Year was produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel.[7] Many its songs were inspired by people and stories from the band's hometown of Festus, Missouri.[8] Bass player Robert Kearns joined the band prior to the recording sessions.[6] 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.[9][10] 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.[11] "Gotta Get Up" is about the unchanging daily grind of work.[12] "Headed for the Ditch" alludes to Neil Young's Decade liner notes.[13] "White Boy Blues" is about old guitars that are so expensive that only very wealthy consumers can afford them.[14]
