On our cover this week: After 30 Years Together, the Old97s Are Anything but 'Jagged'
A-list Hollywood stars in full makeup, hordes of costumed extras and a film crew gathered around the members of the Old 97’s, but they weren’t there to hear the Dallas-born band of rocking alt-country pioneers. Bzermilkitokolok and the Knowheremen were about to cut loose.
As otherworldly as it all was for Miller, the band’s lead singer, he was present enough in the moment to sort of scroll back in his mind through some of the shows he remembered playing in St. Louis and Chicago, wondering which ones Gunn and his brother might have attended. Miller and Hammond had been friends and collaborators for a few years at that point and had tried out several different musical styles in various bands, including a rock-flavored effort of Miller’s, brilliantly named Rhett’s Exploding. But after hearing Bethea lay some country licks over “St. Ignatius,” a song Miller had recently written, the three felt as if they had found something stable, a musical home in which to get comfortable.
“Well, to quote a song off our most recent album, ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder, that’s why I wander,’” Miller casually sings into a video call. “But I think a lot of things have allowed us to stay together for so long when other bands don’t. I think the fact that the rest of the band has been supportive of me making solo albums, so I don’t just end up resenting them for the songs they don’t want for the Old 97’s, is a big reason.
Rhett rocks a Bad Livers T-shirt at an Old 97's performance in 1997 at Excene Cervenka’s store in L.A.Peeples adds, somewhat incredulously now, “I even had a conversation with Rhett’s mom about it! The way I saw it was that the Old 97’s were sort of this thing where 2 plus 2 equals 16. It just works, even though there’s no logic to it.”
In 2020, Miller attracted some headlines when he declared he had stopped drinking alcohol, but even that announcement was less than dramatic, as admirable as it was, as he had been sober for a few years at that point. Bethea still conveys a giddy excitement about having been able to make a career out of his love for music With a developed style that was geared more toward the roots music world rather than the radio rock realm, the Old 97’s were able to set themselves up for the kind of longevity they may not have anticipated in 1993. Theirs is a sound that has grown wiser along with the band's fans, year by year.
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