So much old stuff has lingered there, and its history is still very present.” As much as Miller loves where he’s from, he’s always had a complicated relationship with home and never could figure out what to do with himself there. “There are three or four little towns I know well that make up the region,” he says, name-checking places like Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, Hedgesville, and Keyes Gap. Miller grew up in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia near the Potomac River. “I stumbled to Nashville and started to figure things out, so a lot of these have the feel of closing a chapter.” “I wrote most of these songs after finding myself single and without a band for the first time in a long while,” Miller says.
The album is almost novelistic in its journey, not only to the complicated relationship Miller has with the Shenandoah Valley but also into the mind of someone going through transitions. Recently lost heroes like Prine, Walker, and Shaver served as guideposts for the songcrafting but Miller has completely achieved his own sound. On the album, Miller says he was eager to combine elements of country, folk, blues, and rock to make his own sound. Miller’s own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.ĭepreciated is a collection of eleven gems that take us to his homeplace even while exploring the way we can’t go home again, no matter how much we might ache for it. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he’s “a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he’s seen, three chords at a time.” Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire. John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Summer Cult is a four piece indie rock band from Boston. To them, it’s all about being who you are love, support, friendship and good vibes. Bound to keep even the band on their toes as it flows seamlessly through a variety of moods and genres, their performance is dead set on always delivering a delight you’ve not yet experienced and never ever compromising who they are for it. They are perhaps best known for the spectacle of their refreshing, high energy live show riddled with laughter. Their latest album 11:22 was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois with the legendary sound engineer Steve Albini.Ĭozy Throne, (made up of Harry McCallum, Ben Ferrari, Lindy Snell, and Amara) tries their best to stay true to their roots with everything they do - 4 random kids in a basement trying things and seeing if it works. Since then, Marvel Prone has self-released three studio albums. As a result they had their first song aired on one of Boston’s most popular radio stations. In 2015, Marvel Prone released their first single “Nocturnal Life,” which placed in the top ten of New England high-school songwriting contest hosted by 92.5 FM The River. Rainor Vigneault formed the band in 2014 during his Junior year of high-school. Their eclectic styles range from power pop, punk, classic rock, psychedelic rock, to progressive rock.
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