Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
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Old 97's Blame It on Gravity (New West) Apparently the Old 97's have found a musical formula that works and won't deviate from it in this lifetime. Why fix what ain't broken? Empirically, there's not much broken here. Blame It on Gravity is a perfectly listenable album, pleasant and upbeat and likely to help sustain the Dallas-bred quartet's reputation as a scorching live band. The Fool twists and turns its way from Phoenix, never looking back, while Early Morning is a boot-stomping rockabilly romp. The faux-maudlin No Baby I is the narrative of a childish musician not willing to own up to his lover's tears, so he encourages her to blame them on being a girl. Feminist complaints aside, the problem with this...
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