At 12:21 PM -0600 on 4/1/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Thanks for posting that Marie. Here's a clip from the Bottlerockets
>interview that ties in with some of what's been discussed here lately, I
>think. <g>
Yeah, well, this is why this Big Tent approach just doesn't work. At
its best, it just ghettoizes everything.
BTW, I took the liberty of formatting the article and pasting it in
underneath. If anyone has any stuff from the Web that isn't really
time-sensitive and they don't want to format it for e-mail themselves,
I'd be happy to. Takes two or three minutes.
b.
>WM: You don't like roots rock I take it.
>BH: Oh, I love roots rock, it cracks me up. The whole idea of singling
>it out and naming it something to insure it never gets on the radio
>cracks me up.
>
>WM: So you are a lot like Jay and the other artists ... you don't want
>to be pigeonholed.
>BH: It was a really good name to kill everything. Ok lets call it
>alternative country. Look at that. Look at the breadth of the stuff
>that's in there. So if you happen to be an alternative country band
>with a rock song such as...
>Like I told you the other night, if Exile on Main Street were to be
>made today, it would be considered alternative country. So it ain't
>gonna get on the radio. It will never happen. They'll never listen to
>it cause it'll be brought to them as alternative country and it wont
>go. Not on big radio. Big radio sucks.
>
>WM: So, you don't think that you guys and Wilco and Son Volt will ever
>become radio friendly to the point of stardom, wealth, etc?
>BH: Well, Son Volt, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo have been working at it for
>over 10 years now.
>
>WM: Consciously, do you think?
>BH: Not consciously, but still you know, they have been drifting
>around as the icons, the upper echelon. And they've been doing it
>since 88. Maybe its time to reevaluate. It's been 11 fucking years and
>no one's had the big breakout hit yet.
>Tom Parr: Played a lot of college frat parties. All the roots
>rockers.. it took them years to get deals.
>BH: We're doing this new album, it's gonna be called alt country, I
>guarantee it. Then you have bands like the Derailers.
>
>WM: Do you like their music?
>BH: Yeah, I like the Derailers. That's great, but it's a confusing
>single label to put on the whole thing.
>
>WM: What do you think of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
>having a category called Contemporary Folk for their Grammy awards,
>and then nominating Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett,
>Wilco/Bragg EmmyLou Harris in that
>category?
>BH: So they're Contemporary Folk now (laughs). What that's gonna do is
>place these artists way in the back of record stores. I know that
>cause I went looking for the Lucinda album. I asked the guy at the
>store, where is it? Well, you go back there, turn left, it's in the
>back of the store.
>
>WM: Ok, so you don't want to be labeled. How would you describe your
>music to someone who
>doesn't know you?
>BH: I would just say, it's a straight up rock band with a guy that
>unfortunately has a bit of a country accent singing. So that's it.
