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OLD 97's

ALBUM	YEAR		RATING
Hitchhike to Rhome	1994
Wreck Your Life	1995
Too Far to Care	1997
Fight Songs	1999
Early Tracks	2000
Satellite Rides	2001
Drag It Up	2004
Old 97's Live (DVD)	2005
Alive & Wired	2005
Hit By a Train: The Best of the Old 97's	2006

PROFILE
When the Old 97's started back in 1993, we agreed on this weird band name. Murry thought of it and liked it because it references an old train wreck ballad that he thinks is cool. I went along because Joe Strummer used to have a band called the 101er's. Murry and I had been through a handful of bands in the three years after Billboard magazine predicted (on the merit of my high school effort, Mythologies, which Murry produced) my eminent superstardom, and we'd been burned by our expectations of overnight success. The Old 97's was our way of turning our back on all that.
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