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Other Songs 504 A State of Texas Absence (What We've Got) Adelaide All Who Wander Alone So Far Am I Too Late? Bad Luck Charm Barrier Reef Bel Air Belmont Hotel Big Brown Eyes Bird In A Cage Blinding Sheets Of Rain Bloomington Book Of Poems Borrowed Bride Bottle Rocket Baby Broadway Brown Haired Daughter Buick City Complex Busted Afternoon Cant Get A Line Champaign, Illinois Coahuila Color of a Lonely Heart Is Blue Confessional Boxing Crash On The Barrelhead Cryin Drunk Curtain Calls Dance With Me Designs On You Desperate Times Diamonds on Neptune Doreen Dressing Room Walls Drinkin' Song Drowning in the Days Early Morning El Paso Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You) Eyes For You Firefly Four Leaf Clover Friends Forever Going Going Gone Good With God Hands Off Happy Hour Harold's Super Service Here's to the Halcyon Holy Cross House That Used To Be I Dont Know what christmas is I Like You Better I Will Remain If My Heart Was A Car I'm a Trainwreck In The Satellite Rides A Star Indefinitely Irish Whiskey Pretty Girls Ivy Jagged Jesus Loves You Just Like California Kens Polka Thing King Of All Of The World King Of All The World Let The Idiot Speak Let the Train Blow the Whistle Let the Whiskey Take the Reins Lonely Holiday Longer Than Youve Been Alive Love Is What You Are Mama Tried Melt Show Miss Molly Moonlight Murder Murder / Or A Heart Attack My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin My Two Feet Nervous Guy New Kid Nineteen Niteclub No Baby I No Mother Nobody Northern Line Old 97s- Barrier Reef Old Familiar Steam Oppenheimer Our Year Over The Cliff Perfume Please Hold on While the Train Is Moving Por Favor Question Ray Charles Ride Rollerskate Skinny Salome She Hates Everybody She Loves the Sunset Singular Girl Smokers St. Ignatius Stoned Streets Of Where Im From The 1 The Beauty Marks The Dance Class The Dropouts The Easy Way The Fool The Grand Theatre The Magician The New Kid The One The Other Shoe The Villain This Beautiful Thing This House Got Ghosts This Is The Moonlight Time Bomb Timebomb Tupelo County Jail Turn Off the TV Turns Out I'm Trouble Up The Devils Pay Valentine Valium Waltz Victoria W. Tx Teardrops Weightless What I Wouldnt Do What We Talk About Where the Road Goes Why Don't We Ever Say We're Sorry W-I-F-E Wish The Worst Wont Be Home You Belong To My Heart You Smoke Too Much You Were Born to Be in Battle You Were Right

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Old 97s Info:

The Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas, formed in 1993, They are recognized as pioneers of the alt-country movement during the mid to late 1990. -Wikipedia

Members:
Rhett Miller -
lead vocals, rhythm guitar

Murry Hammond -
bass guitar, occasional lead vocals, backup vocals

Ken Bethea -
lead guitar, backup vocals, lead vocals on "Coahuila"

Philip Peeples -
drums and backup vocals

Name Origin:
They take their name from the ballad Wreck of the Old 97 first recorded by Virginia musicians G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter and released in 1924. It's been covered by many artists, including Hank Williams III and Johnny Cash.

The Old 97 was a train that ran for the Southern Railway. It was better known as The Fast Mail, because of its reputation as a lightning-fast mail train that never came in late. The wreck of the Old 97 happened on September 27th, 1903 when the train was an hour behind, it was asked to speed up, resulting in unsafe speeds and a subsequent derailment. It plunged into a ravine at the Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, resulting in the deaths of 9 people, including the conductor.

From: Dallas, Texas, USA
Genre(s): Alternative country
Country rock
Country
Active From: 1993-present
Associated Acts: Sleepy Heroes Ranchero Brothers Rhett Miller

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