Chris and Joe Quinlan grew up in small Midwestern town far away from big city lights. They wrote songs for their mother Barbara Jean who had the sense to expose them to the Beatles as chidren. The brothers Quilnan split for college along with Justus Woolever at the age of 18 and befriended Erik and Jeff who play drums and bass respectively. They embarked on a musical morph from party band to recording artists and quickly became known as Bottle of Justus.
"BOJ" release a few CDs and tour around the country playing in front of lots of people. They know they are on the right track when Wesley Willis records a song about them whipping a Llama's ass.
Bottle of Justus churn our heartfelt original music fueled by the toil of twin brothers with an unbridled independent spirit. They will come to your town and grind out a show to remember, drink all your beer and share the deli tray with the crowd. BOJ care not about the how many brown M&M's are in the bowl backstage. They will however, bring the backstage back to the hotel with the latest afternoon checkout in your town.
God forbid they find your home first.
BOJ continues to pull off the great Rock and Roll swindle by doing it all themselves and answering to nobody. They'll even tell you a story or two. So make sure to ask them about being strapped in Iowa City with Evan Dando.
Bottle of Justus - "suddenly o.k" (Independent, 2005)
Producer: Jason Elgin
Style: Modern rock (soft)
Format: Album
Website: www.bottleofjustus.com
Reviewed by: Pär
Link to this album: http://www.melodic.net/reviewsOne.asp?revnr=3028
Here is an album which is FILLED with tons of great soft modern rock (ala Tal Bachman & Dishwalla) with a more mainstream sort of acoustic approach (ala Shawn Mullins) which is just PURE PURE heaven. This is SURE an album for all you melodic jerks out there that adore well produced refrain-orgasms and the voice of Chris Quinlan is nothing less that damn impressing. And so is the production. Its kinda unnecessary to write about specific tracks here as the album is so freekin good all through. This review is not a recommendation. Its a demand from us here at Melodic.net to you all surf to their homepage right away and take a listen. And be stunned. Im sure you all will be. A new hype has started. Join the train today.
Algren's farewell show will take place on Friday, November 20 at the Elbo Room in Chicago. Please join us as we celebrate 3 years of great music and memories.
You guys doing another House of Blues show this winter? I don't know if I can go this year, but the earlier I know, the earlier I can (attempt to) plan! :)
Erica and I are coming to your show this weekend! You're playing on her bday, so we thought it would be a good way to celebrate!! See ya on Saturday :)
So you guys are in Bloomington, huh? Would love to catch one of your shows soon! We'll be in Bloomington on Oct. 24 at Six Strings if you guys aren't playing that night too. Would love to meet you! Have a great weekend.
I havent been down ther since DJ Infinity and I did a frat party last year.
Give me a shout, and let me know if anything is comming up and if you need my support
Peace Out
Have a Great weekend, and yes I have a MOVING COMPANY TO. Actually if you and your friends have some moves comming up, I will come down and spend the weekend moving everyone and you can show me and my crew a good time.
CQ - what up. When are you in Chicago next? You should set up a Friday/Saturday show and I can try to round up a group from the Kingsbury basement days.
Also, my little brother is actually headlining Double Door on October 8th after a quick start in the industry.
Hey What's up! Soooo, if you want some plans for Friday...COME PARTY WITH US AND WAVELENGTH APPAREL! Best In Red is unveiling new songs, and WaveLength will be there with their new line of sweet shirts. Of course, the usual heavy drinking will be happening too. Did we mention free stickers and CD's?
Hey, If you guys don't have anything booked up for July 17th, come to Chicago with us. We are jamming out at McDunna's at midnight and also drinking a lot for Taito turning OLD (really just 30) but it will be a good time.
