“Won't Be Home” by Old 97's

"Won't Be Home" comes from Drag It Up, the 2004 album from country-rock outfit Old 97's, and it's a four-way write between Rhett Miller, Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond and Philip Peeples. Miller sings lead and plays guitar alongside Bethea, Hammond plays bass and adds backing vocals, and Peeples covers drums, tambourine and shakers. Mark Neill produced.

The album split the critics. No Depression found a good half of it hushed in tone and tempo but reckoned the sound fit the songs, the Hartford Courant grumbled that it sounded murky, as if it had been cut in a tin shed during a storm, and the Cleveland Scene heard joyous alt-country.

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