Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller
Stewart Ransom Miller II, better-known as Rhett Miller, is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' school in Dallas, in 1989 and briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College on a creative writing scholarship before dropping out to pursue a music career. His first musical endeavor was in 1990 with Murry Hammond and drummer Benjamin Warrenfells, who formed the Sleepy Heroes, an alterna-pop...
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth6 September 1970
rocks train liberating
I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's
stuff homeless instigators
I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience
song writing democracy
Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record
song girlfriend night
Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.
game percent possession time
Time of possession in that game was probably 75 percent us.
athletes ball bridges controlled great watch worked
We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because he's a great player, but we pretty much controlled the game. We worked the ball real well.
watching
We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.
albert date drummer last london mutual royal shared spent time wife
We weren't that close, but I spent some time with him in his last years, and we had some mutual friends and even shared a drummer (Scott McPherson). My first date with my wife was to see his London show in the Royal Albert Hall.
sort
With the 97's, it rocks, but it's always this one sort of thing: They won't do anything that doesn't swing. It's just real specific.
band becoming
The band is accusing me of becoming Springsteen-ian.
matter obvious
It was an obvious foul, it was just a matter of where it occurred.
knock
And knock on wood, this one will be a girl.