Scott Miller

www.thescottmiller.com


5/09: TWANGVILLE - For Crying Out Loud Review
This is the Scott Miller album for which I’ve waiting. He’s always hinted at greatness, but has finally found the perfect balance of grit and wit while maintaining all his Southern charm... READ STORY

5/09: AMERICANA GAZETTE - For Crying Out Loud Review
Hold the presses!!! This is the template that any aspiring artist should follow when recording an album. God I love this CD. This is one of the very best CD’s I have ever heard! It is full of character, unbelievably well written songs, and punch. Did I say how much I love this CD?... READ STORY

5/09: TWANGVILLE - For Crying Out Loud Review
This is the Scott Miller album for which I’ve waiting. He’s always hinted at greatness, but has finally found the perfect balance of grit and wit while maintaining all his Southern charm... READ STORY

4/09: BLUEGRASS SPECIAL - For Crying Out Loud Review
All in all, chalk up this long player as a big winner for Scott Miller: there's neither a false note nor a bad song nor an impotent vocal in evidence. It may be too stylistically diverse for those who prefer to pigeonhole artists into neatly defined categories, but wherever he lands on this disc, Miller sounds like he belongs right there....
READ STORY

4/09: NO DEPRESSION - For Crying Out Loud Review
For Miller, the modus operandi is generally no-nonsense rootsy rock & roll, sometimes quieter and more reflective acoustic balladry, and almost always a way with words that few other Americana songwriters can match... READ STORY

4/09: NASHVILLE SCENE - Nobody Beats Scott Miller at Big Thrifty Hooks
Scott Miller became the master of his own destiny when he left his label not too long ago. Now surveying the state of the music industry as the head of his own tiny indie, F.A.Y. Recordings, he puts on a convincing show of Great Depression-like grimness... READ STORY

4/09: CITIZEN TIMES ASHEVILLE - Scott Miller Back with a Rockin' New CD
Scott Miller has been called too smart for his own good. With a folkie's ear for spinning a story, coupled with a little bit of rock 'n' roll swagger, Miller pens Southern tales of gritty realism and everyday heroes... READ STORY

4/09: PERFORMING SONGWRITER - For Crying Out Loud Review
You'd expect an album dubbed For Crying Out Loud to possess a certain amount of tenacity, and for Scott Miller, that feisty attitude comes naturally... READ STORY

4/09: CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE - For Crying Out Loud Review
Since his days leading the V-Roys, an excellent roots-rock band that was signed to Steve Earle's now-defunct E-Squared label, Scott Miller has been a stubbornly independent and hard-to-pin-down troubadour... READ STORY

4/09: HONEST TUNE, The Southern Journal of Jam - For Crying Out Loud Review
ormer V- Roys singer/guitarist Scott Miller paints a timely portrait of the modern American landscape on his roots-rocking For Crying Out Loud disc.... READ STORY

4/09: METROPULSE KNOXVILLE - Benny Smith's Music Picks
A bit biased here, but this might be Scott’s best since the V-Roys days. If the tune he sings with Patty Griffin does not give you chicken skin, then you need to check your pulse. Looking forward to seeing the boys live at The Shed on April 25.

4/09: KNOXVILLE.COM - Get Behind the Mule...
Miller looks to plow his next musical chapter on his own. Anyone who knows Scott Miller knows why he chose the mule as his spiritual mascot. Miller is stubborn and tenacious. He's also as independent a creature as has walked on the earth. As Miller sees it, these are good times for a guy with his qualities... READ STORY

4/09: DAILY TIMES KNOXVILLE - No Tears Here...
Scott Miller hates children. Well, not really. He doesn't wish them ill will, nor does he advocate throwing them in a nearby river. He wrote "For Jack Tymon," off of his album "Upside/Downside," for the son of his best friend, Shane (the motorcycle sales manager at Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson in Maryville)... READ STORY

4/09: CITYBEAT CINCINNATTI - For Crying Out Loud Review
Once upon a time, Scott Miller roared out of Knoxville with the V-Roys, a band that never made much of a mark on the charts but left lash marks and sweat stains on anyone who was ever fortunate enough to find themselves in a club with them.... READ STORY

4/09: Americana Roots - For Crying Out Loud Review
There are very few people like Scott Miller, which is truly a shame. His talents have yet to lead him to the fame and fortune he may deserve, but he has not given up. He is now standing alone, on his own label, putting out his new release titled “For Crying Out Loud,” which is set for release on April 14th... READ STORY

4/09: Birmingham Weekly - It's Miller TIme. Miller Performs at the Nick
Singer/songwriter Scott Miller is a man of few words. His interviews move at a brisk pace, but his delivery is sincere and his responses are thoughtful. Simply put, a conversation with Miller plays like one of his songs - plainspoken, direct and possessing the ability to find humor in tight situations,,,. READ STORY

4/09: Birmingham Magazine- Hard Working Scott Miller Returns with a New Album, New Label, True Sound
Did you know that May 9 is National Train Day? Neither did I, till I chatted with Scott Miller. The country-influenced troubadour is hopping onto the Amtrak Crescent,,,. READ STORY

3.18/09: Uncommon Music - Greetings From Knoxville: A Chat with Scott Miller
n concert, he’s effortlessly charming and devastatingly witty, whether he’s talking about the fact he hates babies or the more historical aspects of World War II.,,,. READ STORY

4/09: Sonic Boomers- For Crying Out Loud Review
Scott Miller is a son of the South, and proud of it. He uses the independence that comes from growing up on a Virginia cattle farm and learning how to do things for himself to shape an individualistic sound that veers from hoedowns to get downs, never sticking too close to any rules except his own. READ STORY

4/09: Hyperbolium - For Crying Out Loud Review
Miller can seem like a glass-half-empty romanticist; blowing blue harmonica as he declares his faults... READ STORY

4/09: Roughstock- For Crying Out Loud Review
Financed via sales of original demo recordings and an enhanced video CD, Scott Miller and The Commonwealth's "For Crying Out Loud" is the band's first album under their own record label F.A.Y. Records... READ STORY

6/09: Vintage Guitar Magazine- For Crying Out Loud Review
Since the release of Are You With Me in 2001, Scott Miller and his band, the Commonwealth, have been building a reputation as able writers and performers, picking up an ever-growing fan base... READ STORY

4/14/09: Press Release re: Amtrak Crescent Tour
All over the country, musicians are touring in buses and Econolines. Scott Miller has an idea that’s far more fun, greener and calls attention to a forgotten mode of transportation — trains. On May 9, he will embark on his “Mule Train MMIX” tour by boarding the Amtrak Crescent, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. READ STORY

5/01/07: No Depression-
Probably too smart by half for his own damn good, William & Mary alum Miller has straddled the cerebral and the visceral... READ STORY

3/16/07: USA Today Online-
Best CD I heard? Reconstruction, the new live disc from Scott Miller and the Commonwealth... READ STORY

2/3/07: Asheville Citizen Times-
With the same kind of charisma and Southern charm that has made Steve Earle an alt-country hero for decades... READ STORY

1/29/07: Bloodshot Records Press Release-
Bloodshot Records to Release Just One More, A Musical Tribute to Larry Brown... READ STORY

12/14/06: Knoxville Metro Pulse -
This past weekend, Scott Miller & The Commonwealth spent three nights at Johnson City's Down Home... READ STORY

12/06: Entertainment Weekly -
Stephen King - Stephen King, famed author and now columnist for Entertainment Weekly, named "Drunk All Around This Town" as one of the top 10 in music for 2006.

11/06: No Depression - MIKED: Mucklewain Review -
"...Scott Miller and the Commonwealth interrupted "Only Everything" for a chorus of "Muckle Wain, Muckle Wain" sung to the tune of "Purple Rain" - followed by a ruckus caused by all the performers who went on earlier kicking themselves for not thinking of it first..."

11/02/06: Paste Magazine-
Americana singer/songwriter Scott Miller will reprise his 2004 Mule Train tour this fall... READ STORY

10/31/06: Press Release-
Use Your Brain... Use a Train... READ STORY

6/30/06: Washington Post -
In "FREEDOM'S a Stranger," which evokes a particular Bryan Adams tune so strongly that Scott Miller jokes... READ STORY

6/06: Amplifier -
Scott Miller’s third Sugar Hill release, recorded and produced in Memphis by legendary character Jim Dickinson... READ STORY

3/17/06: Knoxville News-
It's 1 a.m. Sunday in the studios of WDVX... READ STORY

3/16/06: MetroPulse, Knoxville
It’s hard not to be “with” whatever comes caterwauling out of Scott Miller’s mouth. His songwriting drives like a Cadillac, equally adept at navigating blue highways and Civil War battlefields, with a knack for winding up in the parking lot of the nearest saloon... READ STORY

3/06: Performing Songwriter
Citation is Scott Miller and the Commonwealth’s third outing on Sugar Hill, following Thus Always To Tyrants and Upside/Downside, both of which were met with tremendous critical acclaim... READ STORY

3/06 Amazon.com
The third solo album by the former V-Roys frontman combines the storytelling of a Tennessee troubadour with the reckless soul of a diehard rocker. It's been a long
ime since even Bruce Springsteen has recorded an anthem as Springsteenesque as the opening "Freedom's a Stranger..." READ STORY

2/04: Baltimore City Paper
Singer/Songwriter Scott Miller Talks About Time Passing Between His Tour's Whistle Stops... READ STORY

12/01/96: NY Times
Mr. Miller is this year's Ryan Adams, a talented singer-songwriter emerging from a cult band (the V-Roys) with an astonishingly good solo album... READ STORY