By Chip Chandler — Digital Content Producer
Alt-country icons Old 97s will return to Amarillo on Thursday for a 10 p.m. show at Hoot's Pub, 2424 Hobbs Road.
The band, which declined an interview request, first performed in Amarillo last fall despite a career stretching back to the early 1990s, based mostly in the Dallas area.
They got national attention in the mid-'90s, signing with Elektra Records and releasing the single "Murder (Or a Heart Attack)," but never had one true breakout single that would tie them indelibly to the '90s, leaving them free to continue being a creative force rather than coast as a nostalgia act, lead singer Rhett Miller told me in September. The band's most recent album, Most Messed Up, was released in 2014.
Cover is $15 in advance or $20 day of the show.
Here's a roundup of some of the band's best in its 20-plus-year career:
Chip Chandler is a digital content producer for Panhandle PBS. He can be contacted at Chip.Chandler@actx.edu, at @chipchandler1 on Twitter and at www.facebook.com/chipchandlerwriter on Facebook.
