Press
Rhett Miller, Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach CA (Impose Magazine)
Sunday night at the Belly Up Tavern. An acoustic show by the singer of an alt-country band, whose solo work is even more mellow that than of said band. These are the things that should have tipped off this writer to the fact that the show would probably run on the earlier side.
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Author/Songwriter Rhett Miller’s Five Rules of Good Composition (Paste Magazine)
1. Don’t overthink your plot: “I used to pore over every lank aspect of my protagonists, but now I don’t think about it so much,” cedes professional Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller...
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Review: The Instigator (Giant Magazine)
For his 2002 solo album debut The Instigator, Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller wrote pain-stricken post-9/11 pop numbers that tried to make sense of an increasingly senseless world.
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Record of the Month: The Believer by Rhett Miller (Esquire)
After more than a decade of strum and twang with Dallas’s alt-country pioneering Old 97’s, Rhett Miller is releasing his second solo album, a heaping mound of creamy pop confection-albeit a twisted sort...
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Untitled (Time Out New York)
My mom used to play the Beatles’ Rubber Soul for me, and now I play it for my son, Max. Whereas I was a Lennon kid, Max responds most enthusiastically to Paul McCartney’s “Drive My Car.”
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Rhett Miller: The Believer (No Depression Magazine)
In contrast to the comparatively straightforward alt-country of the Old 97’s, The Believer relies on the tension of contrasts: propulsive guitars against synthesized strings, eternal innocence against hard-bitten experience...
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