Audio Rip of Old 97's Live DVD (2005)
DVD Release Date: January 25, 2005
Run Time: 77 minutes
Genre: Rock/Alt. Country

OGG Format
Average Bitrate (approx): 445-470 kbps
Nominal Bitrate: 499 kbps
Max Bitrate: 499 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2

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Old 97's Live underscores how one of the premier alt-country, No Depression bands of the 1990s has become a truly eclectic, power pop quartet with a gritty folk heart and penchant for lyrical mischief. ("You're a bottle cap away / From pushing me too far.") Drawing from each of their six albums, Old 97's brought the crowd at Santa Monica's Troubadour club to visible delirium at a March 2004 show; that concert appears here. Sounding very much like hard-charging heirs to vast legacies of the Kinks, Hank Williams, the Replacements, Johnny Cash, REM, and even White Album-era Beatles, singer-songwriter-guitarist Rhett Miller, drummer Philip Peeples, lead guitarist Ken Bethea, and bassist Murry Hammond paint loss with rootsy-poetic authenticity while blowing gloom apart with punky exhilaration. The many highlights include the agreeable pop plaint "Rollerskate Skinny" ("I believe in love / But it don't believe in me"), the anthemic anti-anthem "Friends Forever," and Hammond's moving, acoustic solo on "Valentine." --Tom Keogh

1  Just Like California
2  King Of The World
3  Weightless
4  Rollerskate Skinny
5  Won't Be Home
6  Smokers
7  Melt Snow
8  Wish The Worst
9  Lonely Boy
10 Up The Devil's Pay
11 Friends Forever
12 The New Kid
13 Jagged
14 Four Leaf Clover
15 Question
16 Valentine
17 Murder ( Or A Heart Attack )
18 Doreen
19 Big Brown Eyes
20 Time Bomb
21 End Credits