I love this paragraph from an old Rolling Stone review:

"Like most members of the alternative-country club, the Bottle Rockets (St. Louis chapter) and Old 97's (Dallas chapter) have learned their music history backward. Starting with punk rock's door-opening conceit that anyone might play music, they have worked through Skynyrd to Waylon and Willie, then to Haggard and Hank. Nashville will hardly recognize the result, replete with volume, speed and blunt frustration, but both bands – on their third discs now – play blue-collar songs that (at least topically) have more connection to classic country than most of what's on the radio."