Product Description The Bottle Rockets remain one of the most steel solid bands amongst the greatest of rock and roll trailblazers. The St. Louis, Missouri outfit long regarded and adorned as the workingman's rock band have hit a creative high water mark with a new. .com It would be a mistake to claim that Missouri's answer to Neil Young's Crazy Horse has gone soft, but their first release in more than three years shows greater range and reflection than is typical for the rock-solid quartet. The opening "Better than Broken," the brooding "Happy Anniversary," and the acoustic, wistful "Where I Come From" all evoke the aftermath of romantic upheaval (or, in "Suffering Servant," its uncertainty). "Middle Man" could be the band's signature tune, defining a sensibility that is Middle American in more than geography. The sage wisdom of frontman Brian Henneman's "Blind" and the twang of "Feeling Down" show the band's countrier side, while "I Quit" has the groove of retro soul. Yet the guitar finale of the seven-minute, album-closing title song finds the Bottle Rockets as explosive as ever. --Don McLeese Review Zoysia (I don't know what it means either) is their best album ever tuneful, soulful, and best of all, loud. --Stephen King in Entertainment WeeklyThe Bottle Rockets recount ordinary problems--sometimes romantic misadventures and inner turmoil, but also more characteristically, day-to-day hassles and joys--with a self-deprecating, good-hearted wit. --The New York TimesOn its 11 tracks, Zoysia sounds ineffably confident, even cocksure in places, as though crafted by a quartet that hadn't yet sniffed the abattoir stench of the music biz. --Playback STL
