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
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says he was infatuated with the Beatles from his toddler years, asking his mother if Daddy was the ''Nowhere Man.
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I thought we had a better opportunity to sneak up on them after Hoptown's second goal. But our problem was, we couldn't handle their speed. We couldn't stay with them all over the field.
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From my viewpoint it was in the box. The divot that was made was in the box, in my viewpoint.
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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.
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Fireflies. I thought it was kind of a whiny song ... But then she came in and made it a real sensual sounding take for the female part of it.
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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.
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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.
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Time of possession in that game was probably 75 percent us.
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It would be great to make some dough, retire to an island, ... OK, not really. I'd like to just make four or five more albums, rake in a million bucks, and then do something worthwhile with our lives.
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The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.
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We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.
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It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country,
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It was an obvious foul, it was just a matter of where it occurred.
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The band is accusing me of becoming Springsteen-ian.