• Rhett Miller with the Spring Standards- Aug 12th
• 8:00pm

Rhett Miller is an accomplished guitarist and lyricist and continues to produce moving and pointed songs about the human condition. Shifting seamlessly from love worn odes to solemn recounts of loss, the songwriter is able to craft compelling story lines that reward and enrich the audience. Join Rhett Miller for a superb residency series with special friends and guests for each sold out show.

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ABOUT RHETT MILLER

Texan Rhett Miller is best known as lead singer/guitarist for Dallas' alt-country band the Old 97's. The Old 97's, formed in 1993, issued their debut LP, Wreck Your Life, in 1995. Their follow-up, Fight Songs, was issued in 1999; the same year, the early-1994 recording Hitchhike to Rhome was reissued on CD, and the mini-album Early Tracks delivered more of the same in 2000. Their 2001 release, Satellite Rides, gained critical acclaim as well as substantial airplay on college radio stations around the United States.

Miller has also had a successful music career away from the Old 97's. He recorded his first solo album, Mythologies, in 1989. Future Old 97's bassist and songwriter Murry Hammond produced the album, which was a series of acoustic folk songs. Miller and Hammond also perform as the Ranchero Brothers; a group that started as Miller and Hammond's way to test new music for the Old 97's in front of a live audience as a two-man acoustic duo. The Ranchero Brothers developed their own following, however, and hit the studios to record an album of their own in May of 2000.

In February of 2002, Miller began recording his second solo album, this time with the help of producer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion. The Instigator appeared nearly seven months later. Critics loved Miller's lush, passionate songs, allowing The Instigator to become a favorite among the press. A tour with ex-Crowded House frontman Neil Finn followed in early 2003. Believer, his first release for Verve, arrived in February of 2006.

His most recent album, Rhett Miller, was released in June 2009 (Shout! Factory), and includes Jon Brion on guitar and bass, The Apples In Stereo’s John Dufilho on drums and Billy Harvey on guitar. Upon the album's release, Rolling Stone called it Miller's "strongest solo set ever." "I Need To Know Where I Stand" is the first single from the album, and was available for listen on Miller's MySpace page several weeks before the release of the album.

ABOUT THE SPRING STANDARDS.

The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-part harmony circling over a rock'n'roll sound with an old country aftertaste. From small towns to big cities, they explode on stage with spirit, spontaneity, and a style all their own. They are, in no particular order: James Cleare, James Smith and Heather Robb. Each member of the band is a songwriter and multi-instrumnetalist and they use their strengths as a trio to create a sound that listeners might expect from a band twice their size. With an emphasis on three-part harmony and a variety of instrumental switching, their range and energy make each live show a unique event.

In fact the band's performance set-up is as distinctive as their sound: They take a drum kit and break it up among the three of them, and then they set up along the front of the stage. So whoever is playing bass(James and James alternate between bass and guitar,) is also stepping on the kick drum...and whoever is playing guitar is also stepping on the hi-hat (and sometimes playing harmonica simultaneously). Heather, in the middle, switches between melodica, keys, glockenspiel and snare drum, often playing several at a time. And even wit all of this going on their harmonies are astounding.

An independet band in virtually every sense of the word (no lable, no publisher, etc) The Spring Standards have let their music speak for itself, and have seen a path unfold for them that just seems to get better and better. Their EP, No One Will Know (co-produced by Rhett Miller) was released in August 2009 and was celebrated by a packed house at The Bowery Ballroom. Within weeks of the release the band celebrated their national television debut on NBC's Late Night With Conana O'Brien. Surrounding this, the band has enjoyed a busy schedule of touring with Squeeze, The Old 97's, Marc Broussard, The Clarks and Stephen Kellogg and The Sixers.