Old 97s - Drag It Up (Audio CD - 2012)-[Deluxe Reissue] (Special Edition / Digi-Pak / Reissue)

Digitally remastered and expanded CD/DVD editon of the Alt-Country band's 2004 album includes four bonus live tracks plus a bonus DVD. Perceived as their return to roots album, Rhett Miller's lyrics show maturity and with hindsight see the new trajectory the band went on over the last eight years.The Old 97's suggested they were ready to abandon their bittersweet Americana sound with their previous album, 2001's power-pop heavy Satellite Rides. But the Dallas, Texas band's sixth release sees them once again digging into soft pedal-steel guitars, rolling pianos, and relaxed southern rhythms. How could they not? It's clear they are genuinely in love with this music, delivering the woozy "The New Kid" and the surging "Smokers" with so much blood and conviction that it's impossible to detect that the songs were recorded on just eight-tracks. The only thing keeping them from inhabiting the same critically hallowed ground as the Jayhawks and My Morning Jacket is singer Rhett Miller's cocktail napkin penned lyrics. It's nothing a remedial English class can't fix.

Condition:NEW. Marked upc.

TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1

1 Won't Be Home (0:00)
2 Moonlight (0:00)
3 Borrowed Bride (0:00)
4 Smokers (0:00)
5 Coahuila (0:00)
6 Blinding Sheets Of Rain (0:00)
7 Valium Waltz (0:00)
8 In The Satellite Rides A Star (0:00)
9 The New Kid (0:00)
10 Bloomington (0:00)
11 Adelaide (0:00)
12 Friends Forever (0:00)
13 No Mother (0:00)
14 Won't Be Home (0:00)
15 Smokers (0:00)
16 Friends Forever (0:00)
17 The New Kid (0:00)

Disc 2

1 Won't Be Home (0:00)
2 Smokers (0:00)
3 Friends Forever (0:00)
4 The New Kid (0:00)
5 Old 97's Backstage Mini-Documentary (0:00)
6 In The Satellite Rides A Star (0:00)