Old 97's Throw Left Hooks On Fight Songs
After rising through the ranks of the alt.country
movement to become one of its brightest hopes, the
Old 97's are in a bit of a quandary these days: do
they stay loyal to the sound or follow their pop
instincts to break through to a wider audience?
So the new Old 97s record has a lot of hooks, pop or otherwise. I'll
confess that's what hooked me in the first place, on Wreck Your Life and
Hitchhike to Rhome. Rhett's got a knack for writing these infectious
tunes, with smart, witty, generally good-humored wordplay, and then
singing them using
