Old 97's - Hitchhike to Rhome (20th Anniversary Edition) (2014)

The Old 97's burst onto the alt-country scene in 1994 with their debut, HITCHHIKE TO RHOME. To celebrate this anniversary, Omnivore Recordings is proud to reissue HITCHHIKE with an expanded 2 CD release. When band member, and set co-producer, Ken Bethea was revisiting the original tapes for this reissue, he discovered a whopping eight extra tracks cut at the album sessions - many of which the band hadn't even remembered recording. It seemed the perfect time and place to bring those previously unissued songs to light and add the tracks from their first four song demo cassette to round out the early picture of the 97's. The 2-CD version of HITCHHIKE TO RHOME contains the original album, coupled with a 2nd disc of those 12 rare and unreleased tracks, many mixed from the original multi-tracks for the first time by longtime Old 97's engineer Rip Rowan.