Event Scheduled
Old 97’S
Saturday September 28, 2024 08:00 PM EDT
Cost: $25/$30
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CRITIC’S PICK: This Texas-based quartet has not only been releasing terrific albums that mesh rugged country, power pop, grimy garage and Brit Invasion for the past thirty years, but they have been doing it with the original four guys. The Old 97’s just released their 13th (!) album, American Primitive, and sound as hungry and tough as when they started. The roots rockers have recorded so many memorable tunes, they can’t play them all at a single show. But don’t let that stop you from checking out one of the more talented, veteran Americana outfits, one that shows no signs of ageing. — Hal Horowitz
From the venue:
To say that rock and roll has been good to the Old 97’s (guitarist/vocalist Miller, bassist/vocalist Murry Hammond, guitarist Ken Bethea, and drummer Philip Peeples) would be an understatement. The band emerged from Dallas twenty years ago at the forefront of a musical movement blending rootsy, country-influenced songwriting with punk rock energy and delivery. The New York Times has described their major label debut, ‘Too Far To Care,’ as “a cornerstone of the ‘alternative country’ movement…that leaned more toward the Clash than the Carter Family.” They’ve released a slew of records since then, garnering praise from NPR and Billboard to SPIN and Rolling Stone, who hailed the band as “four Texans raised on the Beatles and Johnny Cash in equal measures, whose shiny melodies, and fatalistic character studies, do their forefathers proud.” The band performed on television from Letterman to Austin City Limits and had their music appear in countless film and TV soundtracks (they appeared as themselves in the Vince Vaughn/Jennifer Aniston movie ‘The Break Up’). Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told The Hollywood Reporter that he put the band on a continuous loop on his iPod while writing the show’s final scene.