The Botheads in Room 5: vocalist in a leather jacket at a vintage mic, bearded lead guitarist in a denim vest, tattooed bassist, and drummer in red flannel under warm stage light.

Somewhere in North Alabama · Est. Room 5

The Botheads

Made somewhere in North Alabama. Mostly after midnight.

  • Southern Rock
  • Electric Blues
  • Alt
  • Swamp Soul
  • Slow Country

The Story

A band that only exists with the tape rolling.

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.

Home
Somewhere in North Alabama
Live room
Room 5
Shows played
0 (on purpose)
Tape hours
Too many

The Band

Four players. One room.

Hollis Crane: short salt-and-pepper hair, gray stubble, black leather jacket over a maroon tee, leaning on a pickup with a coffee at dusk.

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.

Wade 'Dusty' Ashby: long wavy dirty-blond hair, full blond-gray beard, denim vest over a light henley, restringing a black electric guitar on a tailgate.

Wade “Dusty” Ashby

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.

Deacon Reese: bald, dark goatee, sleeveless black shirt and tattooed arms, drinking coffee on a porch step in the morning.

Deacon Reese

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.

Moss Kettering: curly dark hair graying at the temples, wire-rim glasses, red flannel shirt, writing in a worn notebook at the kitchen table.

Moss “Professor” Kettering

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.

Discography

Live on Spotify

Stream every release on Spotify and Apple Music.

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2024 · EP · 5 tracks

Daddy No

Five-track EP on Spotify.

Looking · No to the Pole · More Than the Dollar Store · There Was · Thumbing on 41

Daddy, No!: Cara, Marlee, Susan, and Nicole on a southern gothic farmhouse porch at dusk.
The Daddy No look: Cara, Marlee, Susan, and Nicole. Sassy country girls who love the stage. (AI generated photo.)

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Videos

Watch on YouTube

Music videos from The Botheads live on our YouTube channel.

Videos are AI generated.

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Live

Not on tour.
Not ever, probably.

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.

DateCityVenue
TonightNorth AlabamaRoom 5 (closed session)
TomorrowNorth AlabamaRoom 5 (closed session)
Everywhere elsen/aYour speakers

Contact

Press, sync & studio inquiries

The band doesn't take bookings. They take letters, sync requests, and the occasional casserole.