Rhett Miller

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Stewart Ransom "Rhett" Miller II (born September 6, 1970) is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's.

He writes and performs as a solo artist, as well as being recognized as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Early life

Miller, a seventh-generation Texan, was born in Austin, Texas, to father Stewart Ransom "Randy" Miller, an advocate, and mother Ann Morwood (née Wilson Pugh). When Miller's parents were 17 years old, they divorced. Miller, the oldest of three children, has a younger brother and sister. Giles E. Miller, the younger scion of a wealthy textile family, owned the first NFL football team in the South in 1952, the Dallas Texans. The Texans folded after seven games, the last time an NFL franchise would go bankrupt.

Miller's family lived in the Highland Park, Texas, neighborhood where he went to Armstrong Elementary School. Miller was hospitalized for several months in 4th grade due to a serious inner-ear disease. He began attending St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' academy in North Dallas, in sixth grade. Miller has said that his time at St. Mark's was difficult, that he was ostracized, and bullied. At the age of 14, his depression culminated in a suicide attempt. Miller converted to music and began playing in high school and became a local folk performer, playing in small venues and welcoming such nationally touring artists as Rosanne Cash, Chris Isaak, and The Lords of the New Church. He edited St. Mark's literary magazine and helped start The Rag, an alternative literary journal in which he wrote poetry. He started playing guitar lessons when he was 12 years old, started writing songs when he was 13, and performed at 500 Cafe in downtown Dallas in April 1985.

Miller graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1989. He briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College on a creative writing fellowship before deciding to return to Texas to pursue a music career.

Personal life

Miller went from Dallas to Los Angeles in 1997. He migrated to New York City in 2000. On 9/11, Miller and then-fiancée lived three blocks south of the World Trade Center and were home. He wrote a journal about their experience, which was published in The Atlantic in September 2011. Miller now lives in the Hudson Valley neighborhood of New York state.

In 2002, Miller married former model Erica Iahn a week after he began manufacturing The Instigator. Iahn discovered she was pregnant with their first child, Max, when Miller was on tour with Tori Amos to promote the album. Soleil, their daughter, was born in 2006 in the spring of 2006.

Miller said he got the nickname "Rhett" because his mother is a fan of Rhett Butler from the film Gone with the Wind.

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Career

Miller released Mythologies in 1989, when he was still attending high school. The album's name was taken from a collection of essays by French media scholar Roland Barthes. There are only 1,000 copies of the CD. Each one was signed and numbered by Miller.

Miller formed Sleepy Heroes with childhood friend and future Old 97's bassist Murry Hammond, when he returned to Dallas after his semester of college. Sleepy Heroes was a power-pop three piece. Before breaking up, they had released Under a Radio Sun, one of their first albums. "Victoria," the Old 97's song, was written during the last few months of Sleepy Heroes.

Miller was the lead singer of many bands in Dallas between 1990 and 1993: Rhett Miller's Third Eye, Buzz, Rhett's Explosion, and Retablo, for which Miller self-recorded an unreleased cassette that contained some early Old 97s hits.

Miller and Hammond formed Old 97's as a three piece acoustic performance with their neighbor, guitarist Ken Bethea, in Dallas. Darin Lin Wood was on drums for six months before he was added to the trio as a three piece. He played with the band for a few weeks in the summer of 1993 before being replaced by Philip Peeples, who has remained the band's drummer ever since.

In 1993, Hitchhike To Rhome, Old 97's first album, appeared on local Dallas' Big Iron Records. Miller appeared as a touring member of the band Killbilly in the first year of Old 97's. Miller met Nan Warshaw, the owner of Chicago's Bloodshot Records, who released Old 97's second album, Wreck Your Life, during a Killbilly tour.

Old 97's became the focus of a massive label bidding war after a sold-out SXSW show in 1995. 15 record labels fought for a deal to sign the band, with Elektra Records A&R rep Tom Desavia finally inking the band to a multi-album contract. Too Far To Care, Elektra's first Elektra issue, was released in 1997, followed by Fight Songs and Satellite Rides.

Miller on Elektra Records in 2002 introduced The Instigator. Jon Brion was born and filmed with Jon Brion, who received critical praise and brisk airplay on alternative radio stations.

Miller's Verve Forecast label first appeared on The Believer in 2006. It includes a preview of Brion's "I Believe She's Lying" and "Fireflies," a duet with Rachael Yamagata.

Miller's self-titled Rhett Miller, Miller's fourth album, debuted on Shout in 2009. The factory is located in the United States. Jon Brion on guitar and bass, The Apples on drums, and Billy Harvey on guitar are among the tracks on the album. Miller self-released a live recording of The Interpreter: Live at Largo in 2011.

Miller first published The Dreamer in 2012. The film, which Miller self-produced Maximum Sunshine, featured collaborations with Rosanne Cash and Ben Kweller.

Miller released The Traveler, his sixth solo album on ATO Records in 2015. Miller made the album a major change for him as he performed it with a Portland, Oregon-based bluegrass band called Black Prairie, which also includes members of The Decemberists. Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey of R.E.M. contributed to the album.

Miller's The Messenger was released on ATO Records in 2018.

Miller has written short stories, essays, and articles that have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Baffler, Sports Illustrated, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, and Salon.

Miller has been involved in several projects, including co-writing with other musicians, in addition to his solo projects.

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