Songwriters, it turns out, were the last ones standing after the whole overblown alt-country thing went piff. Any schmo can carelessly dump a steel guitar line into a rock song, but you have to know ...

Time and again talk with Rhett Miller turns to school days. The Old 97s frontman might be popular music's most erudite and funny documentarian of the awkwardness of adolescence and its Sisyphusian ...

Old 97s and Charlie Louvin, Monday, October 6, at the Higher Ground Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. For the last 15 years, Old 97s have set the standard for blistering, twang-infused rock. Admired by pop fans and ...

Blame It On Gravity New West Records4 stars of 5Back in the mid-90s, when alt-country bands like Wilco and Son Volt were still flying below many listeners radars, Old 97s was considered one of the ...

It’s the collaboration you never knew you wanted, but makes perfect sense now that it’s happened: Old 97s, one of the best bands to ever come out of Dallas, and Roger Staubach, legendary Cowboys’ ...

Singer-songwriter Rhett Miller is known as the frontman for the alternative country quartet Old 97s, but throughout almost 25 years of touring, he’s found time to cultivate a critically acclaimed solo ...

Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller is recording tracks in Los Angeles for his solo debut, with former Grays principal Jon Brion producing and that group's drummer, Dan McCarroll, lending a hand on some… By ...

Much of the evolution occurring within a given genre of music occurs in response to predominant movements within that music. For example, in jazz, bebop was a response to the swing era, the latter ...

“Rock ’n’ roll’s been very, very good to me,” observes Rhett Miller on “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive,” the retrospective lead-off track to the new Old 97s album that surveys the band’s ...