Artist: Rhett Miller
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Believer
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Texan Rhett Miller is best known as leading singer/guitarist for Dallas' alt-country stripe the Old 97's. The Old 97's, formed in 1993, issued their debut LP, Wreck Your Life, in 1995. Their follow-up, Scrap Songs, was issued in 1999; the same year, the early-1994 recording Hitch to Rhome was reissued on CD, and the mini-album Early Tracks delivered more of the same in 2000. Their 2001 release, Planet Rides, gained critical herald as well as significant airplay on college radiocommunication stations around the United States.
Rhett Miller has as well had a successful music calling away from the Old 97's. He recorded his first-class honours degree solo album, Mythologies, in 1989. Future Old 97's bassist and ballad maker Murry Hammond produced the album, which was a series of acoustic folks songs. Miller and Hammond as well perform as the Ranchero Brothers; a group that started as Miller and Hammond's way to test new music for the Old 97's in presence of a live audience as a two-man acoustic duette. The Ranchero Brothers developed their possess undermentioned, nevertheless, and hit the studios to record an album of their have in May of 2000.
In February of 2002, Miller began recording his second solo album, this time with the help oneself of Jon Brion. The Instigator appeared nearly septet months later. Critics loved Miller's riotous, passionate songs, allowing The Instigator to become a deary among the campaign. A tour with ex-Crowded House frontman Neil Finn followed in early 2003. Truster, his offset outlet for Verve, arrived in February of 2006.
