Great New CD Crying Out Loud!
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Tower of Song concert series rolls on…

Horizon is extremely pleased to have an in-store concert from one the best things about the south, a fellow independent entity and a delightfully outspoken rockin songwriter, Mr Scott Miller, whose new CD “For Crying Out Loud” is in stock (on sale $9.99) and on our must have list. Here’s the dope:

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. Opener “Cheap Ain’t Cheap” blows open the gates with a rumbling beat. “The dollar’s weak but its stronger than me,” sings Miller, “I’m so damn broke that I can’t even pay attention to anything that you say.” Miller serves up a pair of rockabilly-influenced numbers with “Claire Marie” and “I Can’t Dance.” The former is a furious romp fueled by a pounding piano while the latter is more loose and rich with harmony vocals. “Let You Down” leans more towards the country end of the spectrum, heavy on the acoustic guitar and fiddle. Start to finish, Miller succeeds with a down-home and rowdy affair. —twangville.com

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. Miller first surfaced as a member of Knoxville, Tennessee’s V-Roys signed to Jack Emerson and Steve Earle’s E-Squared Records. And even if that band looked like they had legs for the long haul, it ended up being not quite their time. But singer-songwriter Scott Miller didn’t let that slow him down, quickly forming the Commonwealth and taking up right where his former band left off, but with a lot more personal touches to the music, taking the reins more firmly in his own hands.

His songs now had influences from all over below the Mason Dixon line, and then some. “Let You Down” kicks up some serious dust, while “Heart in Harm’s Way” goes the blue-eyed soul route, bumping up on the glorious grooves of the Amazing Rhythm Aces to get good and greasy. Miller financed For Crying Out Loud by selling home-made copies of different demo recordings he’d made, each coming with an original cover, and started his own label to release it. You can hear that fierce streak of DIY in his music, too. It comes in the high lonesome sound of his voice on “She’s Still Mine,” the backwoods roadhouse rock of “Claire Marie” and the humble beauty of “Appalachian Refugee,” which shows how a person’s past will almost always point the way to their future. In Scott Miller’s case, it feels like a future of unlimited musical promise and wide-screen appeal. Maybe the South really will do it again.
—sonicboomers.com

SCOTT MILLER “FOR CRYING OUT LOUD” on CD