
Hollis Crane
Lead vocals · Rhythm guitar
Has a voice like a gravel road after rain. He writes the words on the backs of parts invoices and won't sing a line he hasn't lived or at least stolen fair and square. He argues about tempos and always loses.
Somewhere in North Alabama · Est. Room 5
Made somewhere in North Alabama. Mostly after midnight.
The Story
The story goes that it started in a back room of an old garage off a back road somewhere in North Alabama. It's a cinder-block box the band calls Room 5, where the air still smells like iron and the walls hum when a freight train goes by.
Nobody booked the first session. Four players kept showing up on the same nights, plugged into the same busted amp, and left the tape running. The engineer started calling them the Botheads because they played like machines that had learned to feel: locked, relentless, and a little haunted. The name stuck before anyone thought to argue with it.
Nobody will say exactly where Room 5 is. The Botheads like it that way.
The Band

Lead vocals · Rhythm guitar
Has a voice like a gravel road after rain. He writes the words on the backs of parts invoices and won't sing a line he hasn't lived or at least stolen fair and square. He argues about tempos and always loses.

Lead guitar · Slide
Plays slide with a cut-down pill bottle and everything else like he's still mad about 1979. People say he hasn't changed his strings since the first EP. He says the strings will let him know when they're ready.

Bass
The floor everyone else stands on. Quiet in the room, a freight train on tape. His flatwounds are older than some of the songs. Every tattoo is a place he's never been, and he says that's the point.

Drums · Percussion
Keeps a notebook of every take, every snare tuning, every cracked cymbal in Room 5. Swings like Muscle Shoals, hits like a mill whistle, and keeps the hi-hat a hair behind the beat on purpose.
Videos
Music videos from The Botheads live on our YouTube channel.
Live
The Botheads are a studio band. Room 5 is the only stage they've got, and the red light over the door is the only ticket. If you want to hear them live, play the record loud and stand close to the speakers.
Contact
The band doesn't take bookings. They take letters, sync requests, and the occasional casserole.
studio@thebotheads.local