Bottle Rockets, Ryan Culwell

Never as popular or influential as peers Wilco – on whose first album bandleader Brian Henneman performed – or Son Volt, the Bottle Rockets play the long game with consistency, longevity, and dedication to country rock. Bit Logic, the St. Louis quartet’s 11th disc, bears this out by being on par with their mid-Nineties classics. Texas-born Nashvillian Ryan Culwell opens in support of his third album The Last American. – Michael Toland