Too Far To Care (CD) ~ Old 97's (Artist) Cover Art

Too Far To Care (CD)

By: Old 97's (Artist)

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Old 97's Artist Snapshot:

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.

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DISC 1 for Too Far To Care (CD) Album By Old 97's (Artist)
1   Timebomb
2   Barrier Reef
3   Broadway
4   Salome
5   W. TX Teardrops
6   Melt Show
7   Streets Of Where I'm From
8   Big Brown Eyes
9   Just Like California
10   Curtain Calls
11   Niteclub
12   House That Used To Be
13   Four Leaf Clover
 

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Review

Musician (6/97, p.90) - "...cow-punk deja vu...done so well, so maniacally, you never doubt these ferocious li'l varmints for one backwoods minute....Leave the Stetsons at home for this one and start slamming."

Title Note

Old 97's: Rhett Miller (vocals, guitar); Murry Hammond (vocals, bass); Ken Bethea (guitar); Philip Peeples (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Exene Cervenkova (vocals); John Rauhouse (pedal steel, banjo); Wally Gagel (piano, Mellotron, percussion).

Recorded at Village Productions, Tornillo, Texas.

The Old 97's make their jump to the majors on their second release without sacrificing any of their fire. Though they're lumped with the country-rock revivalists, they owe more to the punk-inflected sound of Mekons offshoot/former labelmates the Waco Brothers than to the Flying Burrito Brothers. Instead of relying on traditional country instrumentation, their sound is based on a foundation of fierce electric guitars and ape-with-a-stick drumming. The ferocity of their attack keeps the country cliches they occasionally revive from sounding hackneyed.

The urgency and restlessness of songs like "Timebomb" and "Niteclub" share a common bond with the gotta-get-outta-here rebel spirit of the Clash's underdog anthems. The band's cowpunk roots show most clearly on "Four Leaf Clover," a duet with X's Exene Cervenka that will take you back to the days when it still seemed like Jason & The Scorchers could change the world.

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