Songwriters, it turns out, were the last ones standing after the whole overblown alt-country thing went piff. Any schmo can carelessly dump a steel guitar line into a rock song, but you have to know ...

Time and again talk with Rhett Miller turns to school days. The Old 97s frontman might be popular music's most erudite and funny documentarian of the awkwardness of adolescence and its Sisyphusian ...

Old 97s and Charlie Louvin, Monday, October 6, at the Higher Ground Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. For the last 15 years, Old 97s have set the standard for blistering, twang-infused rock. Admired by pop fans and ...

Blame It On Gravity New West Records4 stars of 5Back in the mid-90s, when alt-country bands like Wilco and Son Volt were still flying below many listeners radars, Old 97s was considered one of the ...

It’s the collaboration you never knew you wanted, but makes perfect sense now that it’s happened: Old 97s, one of the best bands to ever come out of Dallas, and Roger Staubach, legendary Cowboys’ ...

Some bands are both the itch and the scratch. For nearly 30 years, Texas quartet Old 97s has stoked the desire for a certain sound — music made where rock meets country, and Beatles-quality melodies ...

Alt-country vets Old 97s came through NYC last night for a three-night run at Brooklyn Bowl (6/27-29), which saw them playing a different album in full each night, plus a set of other songs. We caught ...

Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller is recording tracks in Los Angeles for his solo debut, with former Grays principal Jon Brion producing and that group's drummer, Dan McCarroll, lending a hand on some… By ...

“Rock ’n’ roll’s been very, very good to me,” observes Rhett Miller on “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive,” the retrospective lead-off track to the new Old 97s album that surveys the band’s ...

How great is it to discover a band that has been here all along? The Old 97s are nothing new. Coming together in Dallas in 1993, the popular quartet led by the aptly-named Rhett Butler has recorded 15 ...