After spending last year celebrating their 30th anniversary, Old 97’s have announced American Primitive, their 13th album, which will be out April 5 via ATO. The band made the album in Portland with ...

You can’t talk about American Primitive without talking about John Fahey. And you can’t talk about John Fahey without talking about his hometown of Takoma Park. For Fahey, whose first recordings on ...

Dallas-born band The Old 97’s are celebrating their 30-year-plus run with the release of American Primitive, the band’s first album in nearly four years. The 13-track LP was released earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Jason Quigley* On their latest album, American Primitive, the Old 97’s have sandwiched songs about assessing their life ...

"The Old 97′s is a terrible band name." Rhett Miller distinctly recalls what music biz execs told him in the mid-'90s, when Elektra Records had just won a bidding war to sign the white-hot Dallas ...

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The record biz enjoyed a golden age before World War II — everything was so damned new that producers were willing to try anything once, and sometimes captured brilliance. There are too few laudatory ...