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Wreck Your Life (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 Wreck Your Life (CD) Album By Old 97's (Artist)
1   Victoria
2   Other Shoe, The
3   Doreen
4   You Belong To My Heart
5   Big Brown Eyes
6   Dressing Room Walls
7   W-I-F-E
8   Bel Air
9   My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'
10   Old Familiar Stream
11   Over The Cliff
12   Goin', Goin', Gone
 

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Option (1-2/96, p.107) - "...already sounds classic...a surprising stylistic range; though they make everything their own..."

Title Note

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

Additional personnel: Don Walser (vocals); Jon Langford, Chuck Uchida (guitar).

Recorded at Attica, Chicago, Illinois.

On their second album, Texas alt-country rockers the Old 97's consolidated their strengths while improving on the slight weaknesses of their homemade 1994 debut, HIGHWAY TO RHOME. A rollicking remake of that album's standout, "Doreen," shows a band with considerably more road experience under their collective belts: the vocal interplay between lead singer Rhett Miller and bassist Murry Hammond feels far more natural, with Hammond's Bob Wills-like shouts and interjections sounding much less forced, and the songs are both authentically twangy and played with a bit of punkish urgency. The key to the album is found in the trio of covers, which neatly triangulate the band's influences: a heartfelt version of the pre-rock Latin-pop classic "You Belong To My Heart," Bill Monroe's bluegrass blast "My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'," and Jon Langford's "Over the Cliff" sound perfectly natural next to one another, and they all sound like originals. Later albums by the Old 97's would increase the pop and rock influences, but WRECK YOUR LIFE is the band at their most authentically alt-country.

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