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“We felt some kinship to the alt-rock scene of the early Nineties, but we wanted to do it on our own terms. We wanted to be able to love Hank Williams and love punk rock.” While this sentiment from Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller isn’t a strange concept today, it was still a relatively underground idea when he and his bandmates unleashed their raw-and-rowdy major label debut Too Far to Care 20 years ago this month ­– and helped birth a whole new subgenre in the process.Together with guitarist Ken Bethea and drummer Philip Peeples, Miller and Hammond mixed the explosiveness of punk rock and the raw sonics of alternative music with heavy doses of classic country swagger. Two albums – 1994’s Hitchhike to Rhome and 1995’s Wreck Your Life – quickly put Old 97’s on the map outside of their native Dallas, Texas, and generated major label buzz.By Miller’s count, no less than 15 labels courted the band over a six-month period.

“They were flying us to New York and Los Angeles and taking us to every major sporting event you could imagine,” he says. “There was so much noise and so much ego inflation. I can see why so many bands get lost when their ship comes in.”. RelatedIt was a unique moment in time for both the band and also the unruly, amorphous musical scene of which they were a part. For Miller, it’s two other subjects that remind him most of the Too Far to Care sessions: presidents and telephones. Both, he says, have evolved greatly in the last two decades.“We play ‘Barrier Reef’ every night and I have to sing the line, “ Midnight came, midnight went, I thought I was the president,” he says of the album’s second song. “When I wrote it, Clinton was in office but he hadn’t yet gone through the Lewinsky scandal.

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When that happened, I would sing it and think that it was a sly, subtle reference to oral sex. Then when Bush was in office, I was personally not a fan of his policies, so that line changed to being about a warmonger. Now it’s even more complicated because of our current president.”Miller is even more amazed by how anachronistic payphones have become. On the road in support of the band’s early albums, the quarter-call was his primary source of connecting with loved ones.

“When I wrote the line ‘telephones makes strangers out of lovers’ in ‘Niteclub,’ I was imaging a guy on the side of the road with trucks whizzing by in the rain and him getting yelled at by a girlfriend,” he says. “Now when I sing it, I’m looking down at an audience full of people where the majority of them are on their cell phones. Telephones are still making strangers out of lovers, but it’s because it’s all we look at and all we think about.”The line about “ calling time and temperature just for some company” in LP standout “Big Brown Eyes” is especially dated – which Miller admits to realizing even at the time he wrote it.

“It was already a joke in ’97,” he says. “It was just my way of shouting out to a past that was disappearing.”Surprisingly, that landline past came rushing back to Miller when he returned to the Sonic Ranch to record the band’s latest album, Graveyard Whistling, released in February. Opening a drawer of a bedside table, he discovered a note containing the telephone number of the girl about whom many of the songs on Too Far to Care were written.But for Miller, the legacy of Too Far to Care isn’t about phone calls, ex-presidents or even alt-country.

In fact, the “alt-country” tag gave him grief for quite some time. “It took me a bunch of years to come to peace with it, but I embrace it to some extent now,” he concedes. “I feed my kids with alt-country – who would’ve thought that was even possible?”.