Thursday, August 7, 2025

Chased the Setting Sun - The Old 97's

Chased the Setting Sun - The Old 97's
2:42
American Primitive, 2024
Written by Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond, Rhett Miller, and Philip Peeples

A tale of loving and leaving with Hammond on the vocals, with his cowboy twang, and train whistle croon on the held notes, adding a much appreciated jolt of country to the Old 97's, their Americana alt-country now diluted by Miller's usual, albeit terrific, pop-rock sound.  Murry boasts, or maybe laments, his tendency to leave a woman angry and spreading lies about him ("She's howling 'bout my cruelty / For any who will hear."  But he remains unmoved: "We'll ride about and care aloud some glad and gilded song / About a red dirt river road with thrills to tag along."

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