Event Listing - Music

Thu Jul 9

Old 97's

Location	Date and Time
The Fillmore 1805 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94115 cross street: Fillmore district: Japantown/Fillmore	Thu Jul 9 (9pm)

Description

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller’s self-titled album — his first since 2006’s The Believer — will take fans on an up-close-and-personal journey through love, loss and redemption, set to the kind of rollicking tunes for which he’s known.

Rhett Miller was recorded in Dallas and produced by Salim Nourallah, who also produced the latest critically acclaimed Old 97’s release, 2008’s Blame It On Gravity. The album also features multi-instrumentalist and producer Jon Brion on guitar and bass, The Apples In Stereo’s John Dufilho on drums and Billy Harvey on guitar.

- Shout Factory

"Some bands blast out of the gate and never recapture their early energy. Other bands establish themselves as models of consistency. Still other bands take a while to find themselves. And then there are bands like the Old 97s, who blast out of the gate, establish themselves as models of consistency, take a while to find themselves, and then, fifteen years in, deliver a glorious record that sums up everything about them that fans have always loved. With Blame It On Gravity, the seventh Old 97’s record and the second for New West, the band has made its definitive statement. "It’s really exciting," says Rhett Miller, the band’s lead singer and songwriter. "I read an interview with Randy Newman where he said that if your work is as good at 50 as it was at 20, you’ve won the battle. We’re nowhere near fifty, but I feel like this collection of songs is the best we’ve ever done. And I LOVED our earlier albums."

-http://www.old97s.com/