“Barrier Reef” by Old 97's

"Barrier Reef" rolls in on Too Far to Care, the Old 97's' third album and their first for Elektra, which came out on June 17, 1997. All four members share the writing credit, and all four are on the tape: Rhett Miller and Ken Bethea on guitars, Murry Hammond on electric bass and Philip Peeples on drums, with Miller and Hammond both singing. Wally Gagel produced.

The move to Elektra didn't scrub the twang off the band, and the song carries the dust of the road that runs all through the album, right down to its nods to Chicago. Miller, whose given name is Stewart Ransom Miller the Second, has said it isn't really autobiographical. His father, the first Stewart Ransom Miller, sometimes gets asked if he's the one, and tells people they're probably thinking of his son.

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