Biography

Old '97s are one of the key bands from the second (post-Uncle Tupelo) wave of alt-country. The Dallas natives made several albums' worth of fine, twang-filled rock music before abruptly switching gears for 1999's FIGHT SONGS and 2001's SATELLITE RIDES, albums that owe more to Matthew Sweet than to Merle Haggard. The band returned to a rootsier sound on subsequent albums, although front man Rhett Miller's solo work, particularly 2005's THE BELIEVER, remained steeped in pop tradition.

Top Tracks

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• A State Of Texas

• Barrier Reef

• Big Brown Eyes

• Brown Haired Daughter

• Buick City Complex

• Can't Get A Line

• Champaign, Illinois

• Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue

• Curtain Calls

• Dance With Me

• Doreen

• Dressing Room Walls

• Every Night Is Friday Night (without You)

• Four Leaf Clover

• If My Heart Was A Car

• I'm A Trainwreck

• In The Satellite Rides A Star

• Jagged

• Lonely Holiday

• Murder (or A Heart Attack)

• My Two Feet

• Nineteen

• Question

• Ride

• Salome

• She Loves The Sunset

• Smokers

• Stoned

• Streets Of Where I'm From

• Timebomb

• Up The Devil's Pay

• Valium Waltz

• W-i-f-e

• Wish The Worst

• Won't Be Home

Discography

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• The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2

  New West Records

  2011

• The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1

  New West

  2010

• Blame It on Gravity

  New West

  2008

• Alive & Wired

  New West

  2005

• Drag It Up

  New West

  2004

• Satellite Rides

  Elektra

  2001

• Fight Songs

  Elektra

  1999

• Too Far to Care

  Elektra

  1997

• Wreck Your Life

  Bloodshot

  1995

• Hitchhike to Rhome

  Big Iron Records

  1994