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Reckless Kelly w/ Scott Miller
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- 18+ Show -
"If you like country music, enjoy some rock 'n' roll and want to get a mixture of two, Reckless Kelly offer as much as you can handle."
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Schedule
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Scott Miller
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9:00PM
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Reckless Kelly
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9:45PM
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Scott Miller | 9:00 PM
 Scott Miller is best known for non-stop touring
with his band the Commonwealth, and for his eight prior critically
acclaimed albums including the recent Appalachian Refugee Demos. In
fact it was with proceeds from Internet sales of that album (demos from
a Marantz hard-disc recorder with handmade cover art for each copy)
that he financed his forthcoming release titled For Crying Out Loud. The
album, due out April 14 on Miller’s own F.A.Y. Records, was produced
by Nashville producer Mike Webb (Allison Moorer, Stacey Earle, Glenn Tilbrook) and features the Commonwealth (guitarist/keyboardist
Jeremy Pennebaker, bassist Chris Autry and drummer Shawn McWilliams) and includes guest artists Patty Griffin and Tim O'Brien.
In making the new album, Miller took the idea one step further: He’d have the band play to guitar and vocal performances on those
demos, building them into full-on band tracks. The ultimate wisdom of this wild notion can be found within the smokin’ grooves of For
Crying Out Loud.
The album possesses a prevailing character and gritty, hard-earned spirit. It’s jammed full of scrappy, defiant rockers, interspersed with
tender tunes suffused with the quiet joys of home and hearth. The pummeling, power-chord driven opener “Cheap Ain't Cheap (For
Crying Out Loud)” is a shout-along anthem for the legions of newly unemployed.. Miller had a hunch that the blackly (and bleakly)
humorous song “would be a great soundtrack for the (then) impending economic meltdown which I had predicted years ago but wasn’t
smart enough to do anything about — like buy stock in cardboard boxes that people use to put their desk junk in when they lose their
jobs. Now the record’s coming out, and I’m pretty sure we still haven’t seen the bottom yet.”
“Let You Down,” co-written with Doug Lancio (who produced two of the tracks on For Crying Out Loud) is an exercise in brutal selfawareness.
(He and Miller also teamed up for the eerie sounding “Double Indemnity,” a tale based on the actual murder case that
inspired Billy Wilder's classic film.) The Cajun-spiced torque of “Claire Marie” channels the very essence of seminal rock and roll, and
then there’s the wicked-clever “Sin in Indiana,” its characters — Henry Streator, Chalmers Wolcott and Magnolia Hempstead — named
after exit signs Miller had spotted and dutifully jotted down while touring the Midwest with his band.
The record’s gentle side is represented by the gorgeous “I’m Right Here, My Love,” a ballad on which he’s joined by Patty Griffin. “The
thing I like about working with Patty is that we got along great before we’d even heard each other’s music,” Scott marvels. “We also
grew up in the same home town, except mine was in Virginia and hers was in Maine.”
Miller, one of the founders of the seminal roots rock band The Vroys, who recorded three albums for Steve Earle and Jack Emerson's
label E-Squared Records--went on to a successful solo career at Sugar Hill records where he released four critically acclaimed albums
from 2001 -2008. He now joins many independently minded artists of today by releasing his own record, For Crying Out Loud.
Throughout his career, Miller has attracted favorable press notices. No Depression observed, “Probably too smart by half for his own
damn good, Scott Miller straddles the cerebral and the visceral.” Added the Washington Post, “In addition to his considerable talents
as tunesmith, Miller has two things going for him: a voice gruff enough to suit the music he loves and a personality lighthearted enough
to keep the performances from dragging.” And the Nashville Scene summed it up: “Miller stays in touch with his inner rebel while alternating
between hillbilly folk and spitfire garage rock that tried to ignore how well-crafted his songs are.”
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Reckless Kelly | 9:45 PM
 Reckless Kelly's roots reach back to Idaho and Oregon, where brothers Willy and Cody Braun paired their state-required education with a musical school of learning taught by their father. Muzzie Braun and the Boys (that also included other members of the Braun clan) took to the stage, playing western swing regionally, as well as on the Grand Ole Opry and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
By their late-teens, the Brauns had been bitten by a rock and roll bug and started their own band in high school. After their first incarnation hit the skids, they ran into Nazz and formed a new alliance, one that would shape their sound. The band played one final show in the Pacific Northwest before packing the bags for Austin, Texas.
For a band weaned on monthly gigs in the few venues Bend, Oregon, had to offer, Austin created a whiplash effect, with stages available seven nights a week. Prone to familial musical habits, the members of Reckless Kelly took up residence in the same home, leaving only for nightly gigs, including the acoustic sets that Willy says helped the band further define its identity. The band later picked up guitarist David Abeyta and bassist Jimmy McFeeley.
Their self-released debut album Millican (1998) sold over 20,000 units, and the Austin Chronicle named them the "Best Roots Rock Band" three years in a row. Following a live album and another studio album on their own label, they released Under the Table and Above the Sun on Sugar Hill in 2003. The band is named for the 19th century Australian bank robber Ned Kelly.
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