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In a town like Seattle, recommending a country band is like inviting personal insult onto yourself.

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Who: Old 97s Where: Samsung Mobile Mainstage When: 7:45 p.m. With his near-mullet and tight button-up shirt, you could call Old 97s lead singer Rhett Miller the poor man's John Mellencamp, but that's not really accurate.

It's country, complete with twangs and yowls and balls-out rock and roll. And Old 97's is alt-country at its best.

Rhett Miller, the Old 97's frontman, can be hard to get a fix on. Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller says that his solo albums keep him from going nuts.

Brace yourselves. There's glockenspiel on only one song on Buttercup's new CD. Hated to lay it on you just like that, but the 12-track "The Weather Here" , produced by Salim Nourallah and recorded in Dallas at Pleasantry Lane Studios, features a more basic approach to the pop/rocking Buttercup sound/vision. "I really like some of the stuff Salim ...

Keep in mind, these are just the ones that I love the best. NOT a list of the Most Important/Influential or what have you.

Rhett Miller is the dynamic leader of the band Old 97's. The Texas-bred artist writes poignant, pointed love songs whose depth and insight are matched by their tunefulness.

Not many bands can say they've lasted more than a decade with a steady stream of albums and an unchanged member roster, but the Old 97's have managed to beat the fate of many before them.

As pioneers of the alternative country movement, Old 97s has spent a career on the outskirts of the mainstream.

In his newest solo release, singer/songwriter and Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller sticks with a winning formula -- write catchy, apparently happy music and pair it with unsettling lyrics.

On Rhett Miller's fourth solo album, the former Old 97's frontman once again remembers bitter valentines, exposing his battered heart in a collection of ambiguous love songs that replays the age-old war of the sexes with new language and a new outcome.

The cover of Rhett Miller as taken by local photographer Jason Janik. If you ignore a brief dalliance from back in 1989 , then, yes, today sees the official release of Rhett Miller 's third solo record, a self-titled affair that's been getting the Old 97 's frontman a whole lot of early attention from outlets like Pitchfork and Billboard , among ...