Audio CD review:
Old 97s - Drag It Up

Old 97s - Drag It Up

Band: Old 97s Title: Drag It Up Rating: Release Date: 27 July, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Won't Be Home 2: The New Kid 3: Bloomington 4: Smokers 5: Borrowed Bride 6: Friends Forever 7: This Is The Moonlight 8: Adelaide 9: In The Satellite Rides A Star 10: Coahuila 11: Blinding Sheets Of Rain 12: No Mother

Editoral Review But the Dallas, Texas band's sixth release sees them once again digging into soft pedal-steel guitars, rolling pianos, and relaxed southern rhythms. The Old 97's suggested they were ready to abandon their bittersweet Americana sound with their previous album, 2001's power-pop heavy Satellite Rides. How could they not? It's clear they are genuinely in love with this music, delivering the woozy "The New Kid" and the surging "Smokers" with so much blood and conviction that it's impossible to detect that the songs were recorded on just eight-tracks. The only thing keeping them from inhabiting the same critically hallowed ground as the Jayhawks and My Morning Jacket is singer Rhett Miller's cocktail napkin penned lyrics. It's nothing a remedial English class can't fix. --Aidin Vaziri .. You can see a complete list of all Old 97s discography, or go back to the Old 97s tabs