Drag It Up by Old 97's

Drag It Up, the 2004 album from Dallas band Old 97's, came out on New West. By then the band that helped pioneer alt-country in the '90s was leaning toward a punchier power-pop style, and here the twang and the hooks sit side by side.

Rhett Miller, the band's lead singer and main songwriter, once called their sound "loud folk", and that fits: acoustic bones, electric muscle, songs that sound like they were written on a back porch and played in a bar. "Won't Be Home" has that ache, and the album's title comes from the fourth track, "Smokers". It reached number 120 on the Billboard 200.

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