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- Summary: The Dallas-based alt-country quartet releases its seventh studio album.
- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Country
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| Dance with Me | |
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| Old 97's - "Dance with Me" Underneath the foreign stars In a foreign place Where they don't love you I do turn In the pale moonlight Your eyes are... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 13 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Only one thing's certain -- his songwriting.
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These 13 tunes unfold at less of a breakneck pace than some of the band's earlier songs, but the musicians are as tight and the songwriting as strong as on anything the group has released.
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Comfortable and confident all the way through, and a highly welcomed return.
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The songs move between love and regret and between restlessness and loneliness.
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"Strum it on a Telecaster/Sing it like a train-disaster song," sings Miller. It's a perfect mission statement from four Texans raised on the Beatles and Johnny Cash in equal measures, whose shiny melodies, and fatalistic character studies, do their forefathers proud.
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Make no mistake, Blame It On Gravity is a guitar-pop record at heart. Other than a few twangy flourishes here and there, bassist Murry Hammond appears to be the one keeping the country faith, delivering one of his best performances on “Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue.”
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Feminist complaints aside, the problem with this seventh LP is that the Old 97's suffer from being too comfortable.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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CoreyJ.May 17, 2008
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kevDMay 17, 200897's return with a classic. This is up there with fight songs and satellite rides.
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