History Music / Old97s

The band also appears in ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' performing an original song, and a new version of one of their Christmas songs with Creator/KevinBacon.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Rhett Miller's songs are usually in the 5-6 range, although ''Most Messed Up'' goes higher. Murry Hammond's songs are 4s and 5s.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly around a 3, with some forays into 4.

* SignsOfDisrepair: The Texas Department Of Transportation once gave out bumper stickers with the slogan "Don't Wreck Your Life" - Philip Peeples applied the sticker to the bumper of the band's touring van, but for the sake of dark humor he removed the first word, thus inspiring the album title ''Wreck Your Life''.

The Old 97's are an AlternativeCountry band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in the early '90s, they have twelve studio albums plus a holiday album:

* Hitchhike to Rhome (1994)
* Wreck Your Life (1995)
* Too Far to Care (1997)
* Fight Songs (1999)
* Satellite Rides (2001)
* Drag It Up (2004)
* Blame It on Gravity (2008)
* The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1 (2010)
* The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2 (2011)
* Most Messed Up (2014)
* Graveyard Whistling (2017)
* Love the Holidays (2018)
* Twelfth (2020)

* LetsDuet: "Four Leaf Clover," with [[Music/XUSBand X]]'s Exene Cervenka.

* LetsDuet: "Four Leaf Clover," with Music/{{X}}'s Exene Cervenka.
* LyricalDissonance: "King of All the World" sure sounds like a cheery, even ebullient, power pop song. It's not until the fifth or sixth time through it that you realize the narrator is threatening suicide at the end:

* TrainSong: Well, they are named after one. Murry Hammond in particular is wild about trains, and many of their songs are explicitly about riding the rails: "Old Familiar Steam," "Let the Train Blow the Whistle," "W. TX Teardrops," "Please Hold on While the Train Is Moving," "I'm a Trainwreck," and many other references in lyrics.

The Old 97's are an AlternativeCountry band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in the early '90s, they have ten studio albums:

* AlbumTitleDrop: Quite frequently. ''Hitchhike to Rhome'' in "Hands Off" ("Hitchhike to Rhome / Take a Greyhound to Fredericksburg"); ''Too Far to Care'' in "Streets of Where I'm From" ("I've been down too far to care"); ''Satellite Rides'' in ''Drag It Up'''s "In the Satellite Rides a Star"; ''Drag It Up'' in "Smokers" ("I'm a smoker, dragging up all my extra store"); ''Blame It on Gravity'' in "No Baby I" ("Blame it on gravity / Blame it on being a girl").

* CoverVersion: Murry Hammond sang a number of these in the early days: "Mama Tried," "My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'," and "Let the Train Blow the Whistle." Miller did Jon Langford's "Over the Cliff" and "You Belong to My Heart" from, uh, Disney/TheThreeCaballeros. The band also covered The Rolling Stones, R.E.M., and others on 2010's ''Mimeograph'' EP.

-->Rhett Miller: "I went up to Nashville and got put up with a co-writer, this guy John [=McElroy=], just kind of this old Nashville writer. And I went in, and he had this line. He said: “I been watching you on YouTube, and I think your audience would really appreciate it if you just walked out on stage and said ‘Fuck.’”

* CoverSong: Murry Hammond sang a number of these in the early days: "Mama Tried," "My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'," and "Let the Train Blow the Whistle." Miller did Jon Langford's "Over the Cliff" and "You Belong to My Heart" from, uh, Disney/TheThreeCaballeros. The band also covered The Rolling Stones, R.E.M., and others on 2010's ''Mimeograph'' EP.

* TrainSong: Well, they are named after one. Murry Hammond in particular is wild about trains, and many of their songs are explicitly about riding the rails: "Old Familiar Steam," "Let the Train Blow the Whistle," "W. TX Teardrops," "Please Hold on While the Train Is Moving," "I'm a Trainwreck," and many other references in lyrics.

-->Rhett Miller: "I went up to Nashville and got put up with a co-writer, this guy John McElroy, just kind of this old Nashville writer. And I went in, and he had this line. He said: “I been watching you on YouTube, and I think your audience would really appreciate it if you just walked out on stage and said ‘Fuck.’”

* CoverSong: Murry Hammond sang a number of these in the early days: "Mama Tried," "My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'," and "Let the Train Blow the Whistle." Miller did Jon Langford's "Over the Cliff" and "You Belong to My Heart" from, uh, TheThreeCaballeros. The band also covered The Rolling Stones, R.E.M., and others on 2010's ''Mimeograph'' EP.

* LetsDuet: "Four Leaf Clover," with {{X}}'s Exene Cervenka.