Most Messed Up

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Most Messed Up
Old 97s-Most Messed Up.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 2014
RecordedJanuary 2014, Treefort, Austin
Genre Country rock, alternative country
Length39:57
Label ATO Records
Producer Salim Nourallah
Old 97's chronology
Old 97's & Waylon Jennings
(2013)
Most Messed Up
(2014)
Graveyard Whistling
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (77%) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club B− [3]
Cuepoint (Expert Witness)A [4]
Paste 8.2/10 [5]
Pitchfork Media 6.4/10 [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Most Messed Up is the tenth studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on April 29, 2014 (see 2014 in music).

Contents

Track listing

All tracks by Rhett Miller, Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond and Philip Peeples except where noted.

  1. "Longer Than You've Been Alive" - 5:52
  2. "Give It Time" - 3:23
  3. "Let's Get Drunk & Get It On" - 3:03
  4. "This Is The Ballad" - 2:39
  5. "Wheels Off" - 3:05
  6. "Nashville" (Miller, Bethea, Hammond, Peeples, Jon McElroy) - 2:35
  7. "Wasted" - 2:53
  8. "Guadalajara" - 2:52
  9. "The Disconnect" - 4:00
  10. "Ex Of All You See" - 2:52
  11. "Intervention" - 3:49
  12. "Most Messed Up" - 2:48

Personnel

Old 97's

Additional Musicians

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  2. Allmusic Review
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