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Old 97's extend summer tour plans
Alt-country stalwarts Old 97's have announced new summer tour dates, along with a few solo shows here and there by frontman Rhett Miller as he prepares to drop his latest solo effort.
The band, which kicked off its current outing back in April, continues its road slog June 18 in Rochester, NY, co-headlining the town's free Party in the Park festival with Cracker before heading for Hoboken, NJ, where the group will play four shows over six nights. Dates for the trek, which continues through late July, are included below.
The outing finds the band and its frontman supporting two different releases: Old 97's most recent studio effort, 2008's "Blame It On Gravity," and Miller's self-titled solo set, which is due to surface June 9.
"Blame It On Gravity," which features the band's original lineup of Miller, bassist Murry Hammond, lead guitarist Ken Bethea and drummer Phillip Peeples, is Old 97's seventh studio album. The alt-country act spent just over a month on the road behind the record last fall.
Miller's upcoming self-titled work marks his fourth solo album and his first on the Shout! Factory label. His most recent solo album, "The Believer," peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart following its spring 2006 release.
"You can tell what the band doesn't like by listening to my solo records," Miller said of his solo album in a statement. "Generally, the consensus is that the band likes things that swing, things with a train beat that are rootsy and Texan. The things they don't get as much collectively are the songs that are poppier, as well as the stuff that's quiet and personal."
