Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Old 97s- New Album
Old 97s bassist Ken Bethea writes about the new album, Drag It Up, on the offical band site.
July 27 can't get here soon enough. I'll have to work on an updated ranking of my favorit Old 97s songs before then. You can see the current list here.
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It's hard not to compare an album with those that came before it. Drag It Up is our most personal. We recorded it on 8 tracks, which pretty much means there was very little studio trickery. What you'll hear, or maybe I should say, what you won't hear is second-guessing, sleight of hand or revisionist thinking. Whereas Too Far To Care was an idealistic album made for big cars and air guitars, Drag It Up is better served by thinking and driving on Sunday afternoons in the middle of nowhere. Fight Songs was urban, hitchhike to rhome was a giant demo and Satellite Rides was hitchhike's opposite, that is to say, for us (four hacks from Texas) a wonderful recording of near-perfect performances. Wreck Your Life was the spiritual predecessor to Drag It Up - punk rock recorded over the course of a few days in a Chicago attic. We have grown - albeit kicking and screaming - into a complex, philosophical and mortal band. I feel good about what we've done. It's our brains, our breath, our fingers, our soul.
July 27 can't get here soon enough. I'll have to work on an updated ranking of my favorit Old 97s songs before then. You can see the current list here.
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