Like a spontaneous tango across the floorboards of some dusty Texas bar, this new tune from the Old 97s combines fuzzy electric twang with a definite latin flare. I don’t know how to tango, but this song makes me feel like maybe I could figure it out — if Rhett leads, I’ll follow.
The first new album in four years from the Old 97s is due May 13th on New West Records, and will be called Blame It On Gravity.
Dance With Me – Old 97s
Name: Heather Browne
Location: Colorado, originally by way of California
Giving context to the torrent since 2005.
"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part..."
—Nick Hornby, Songbook
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New Old 97s! Wooooooooo!!! *jumps up and down* What a great year this is turning out to be.
zara hemla — March 5, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
I LOVE THE OLD 97′S !!!!!
The new song sounds great. Can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.
sml1771
Anonymous — March 5, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
This sounds like Old Old 97′s, which is a very good thing.
Kurt C. — March 5, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Hell yeah. And finally “the One” makes it on to an album.
Whiskeytango — March 5, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
Mmmmm
I like it.
I swear I was just searching for new Old 97′s info a week or so ago and came up dry. Thanks Heather!!
craiye — March 6, 2008 @ 8:16 am
I’ve seen them live and they put on a great show. Check them out if they come to a city near you.
Kev in St. Louis
Anonymous — March 6, 2008 @ 9:03 am
Check out their new music video for the song “Dance with Me”. It is hilarious. Sci Fi geek goes on a kung fu rampage through a nightclub to get an autograph from Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Gallactica. This guys lays a serious smackdown.
Anonymous — June 13, 2008 @ 6:08 am