Jump to: site navigation, content.

Local stuff that matters to you.
Did you know about Wade Bowenplaying at Billy Bob's Texas tomorrow?
News & events for
Friday, November
20

Local Bands:

find more bands in

Old 97's

 

Founded 1993, based in Dallas, TX

http://www.old97s.com/

Songs!

Launch the Old 97's station (3 songs)

Band History

For more than a decade, the Old 97's have been the golden boys of (at different times) the Dallas, alt-country, and pop rocker scenes. From playing the parking lot behind Bar of Soap to major venues around the world, the band has ridden a career roller coaster and is still hanging in there.

Decidedly alt-country on their initial release and its followup, the Old 97's were generally mentioned alongside Wilco, Son Volt and Ryan Adams as standard-bearers of the No Depression movement. But with a major label behind them in the mid-to-late ninties, the 97's veered more heavily into hooky pop. Thanks to musical trends, erratic promotion and bad single quarterbacking on the part of the label, the band never "hit it big" as so many of their fans were sure they would.

While Rhett Miller took time off to release a well-received solo album (with another on the way), the band and its several side projects forge on, best known for their electrifying live shows, as captured on 2005's Alive and Wired.

From staff reports.

Members

Influences

X, The Pixies, Merle Haggard, Jon Langford, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, The Clash

Sound Description

Sometimes rockin' out with a country twang; sometimes beautiful interlocking harmonies; sometimes power-pop at its best.


Know more about this band? Contact us with a description of their sound and influences and we'll update this page.

  • Staff
  • Verified User
  • Anonymous

One other little-known fact about the Old 97's:

The apostrophe / no-apostrophe question has long thwarted fans searching for the band across the internet. (See second entry here: http://old97s.com/biography/factoids....) It also seems to thwart our search engine.

So, as a reader service:

Old 97s

Old Ninety Sevens

Auld Ninety Sevens

Red Monroe!

"Old 97s"

Although the proper use is "Old 97's."

Mike Orren Staff

3 years, 10 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Interesting Murry interview:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2...

Mike Orren Staff

1 year, 9 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Old 97's Rollerskate Skinny. Live at Meridian-Houston TX 4.12.07

Stacey Callaway Verified

1 year, 6 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Old 97's live @ the Southgate House - Question/Une Question July 07

Stacey Callaway Verified

1 year, 6 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Old 97's at a block party in Chicago in 2005. Designs on you

Stacey Callaway Verified

1 year, 6 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Old 97's at SXSW 2008 "My Two Feet."

Stacey Callaway Verified

1 year, 6 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

Trying again.. Old 97's at SXSW 2008 "My Two Feet."

Stacey Callaway Verified

1 year, 6 months ago
Link to this comment | Suggest removal

What do you think?

:

:

Quantcast