JOHN R. MILLER’S HEAT COMES DOWN ALBUM OUT NOW VIA ROUNDER RECORDS
MILLER BREAKS FREE IN ALBUM STAND OUT SINGLE PRESS ON
WATCH MUSIC VIDEO HERE
MILLER IS CURRENTLY ON A TWO-MONTH NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
WRAPS WITH A LIGHTNING 100 “NASHVILLE SUNDAY NIGHT” SHOW NOVEMBER 19
OPENS ALL 11 DATES ON EUROPE/UK LEG OF TYLER CHILDER’S
MULE PULL 2024 TOUR
MILLER’S SIRIUSXM OUTLAW COUNTRY “INSIDE OUTLAW”
MINI-CONCERT AIRS
ON CHANNEL 62 THROUGHOUT THIS WEEKEND
FRIDAY AT 7:00 P.M. CT/8:00 P.M. ET
SATURDAY AT 8:00 A.M. CT/9:00 A.M. ET AND 4:00 P.M. CT/5:00 P.M. ET
SUNDAY AT 11:00 A.M. CT/NOON ET AND 8:00 P.M. CT/9:00 P.M. ET
“Vibrant and vulnerable”
-Holler
“Some songwriters write short stories. Some write anthems. Some write life itself…a record that reveals its facets with time”
-No Depression
TORONTO, ON – October 6, 2023 – Laid up in the hospital in a full body cast. That’s where viewers greet John R. Miller at the start of the music video for, Press On, a standout from his new album, Heat Comes Down, out today via Rounder Records. As the video rolls along, the incapacitated Miller grows increasingly frustrated by his predicament, his inability to move and communicate clearly fraying his nerves. A seemingly incompetent nurse doesn’t help matters. Eventually Miller breaks free, heading the songs advice to press on, and ends the video standing on his hospital bed, stripped to his boxers, sending pillow feathers and pieces of his casts flying around the room. A jaunty, piano led ode to soldiering on, Press On still manages to allow Miller’s sardonic wit to shine through (“Find your thing/ Let it take you away/ Don’t let it kill you/ press on”). Watch here and listen to the new album here.
Miller belongs to the rare breed of songwriters whose expansive introspection uncovers many truths about the state of the human condition. On Heat Comes Down, the West Virginia-raised, Nashville-based artist intimately narrates his sleepless nights and nostalgic daydreams, existential dread, and nuanced observations of the troubled world around him. But while a number of its songs convey a certain unease, Miller endlessly imparts the kind of lovely reassurance that can only come from shared catharsis.
The follow-up to his 2021 Rounder Records debut, Depreciated, Heat Comes Down finds Miller teaming up with producers Andrija Tokic and John James Tourville (both known for their work with artists like Sunny War and The Deslondes). Over a three-day session at The Bomb Shelter (Tokic’s Nashville studio), Miller joined forces with several members of his longtime live band (drummer John Clay Burchett, guitarist J. Tom Hnatow, fiddle player Chloe Edmonstone) as well as bassist Craig Burletic, and Jeff Taylor (a multi-instrumentalist whose credits include Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello).
Miller is currently in the midst of a two-month headlining fall tour, which wraps up in Nashville, TN for a Lightning 100 “Nashville Sunday Night” show at 3rd & Lindsley on November 19. Next year, Miller will spend a month on the road opening the Europe and UK portion of Tyler Childers’s Mule Pull ’24 tour.
JOHN R. MILLER 2023 TOUR DATES
October 6 – Spokane, WA – Lucky You Lounge
October 7 – Walla Walla, WA – Billsville West
October 8 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
October 10 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
October 12 – Portland, OR – Show Bar
October 13 – Talent, OR – The Talent Club
October 14 – Albany, CA – Ivy Room
October 15 – Mariposa, CA – The Grove House
October 16 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy + Harriet’s
October 18 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer
October 20 – Los Angeles, CA – Gold-Diggers
October 21 – Phoenix, AZ – Last Exit Live
October 24 – San Antonio, TX – The Lonesome Rose
October 25 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
October 26 – Austin, TX – The White Horse
October 27 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips
October 29 – Little Rock, AR – White Water Tavern
October 30 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
November 2 – Chattanooga, TN – Songbird South
November 3 – Macon, GA – Grant’s Lounge
November 4 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl
November 5 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre
November 7 – Charleston, SC – The Charleston Pour House
November 8 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
November 9 – Richmond, VA – The Camel
November 10 – Thomas, WV – Purple Fiddle
November 11 – Morgantown, WV – 123 Pleasant Street
November 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
November 14 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
November 15 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Café
November 16 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House Revival
November 18 – Lexington, KY – The Burl
November 19 – Nashville, TN – 3rd & Lindsley
JOHN R. MILLER 2024 EUROPE/UK TOUR DATES WITH TYLER CHILDERS:
February 15 - Dublin, IE - 3Olympia Theatre
February 17 - Glasgow, UK - Barrowland Ballroom
February 19 - Manchester, UK – 02 Apollo Manchester
February 21 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo
February 22 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo
February 26 - Hamburg, DE - Docks
February 27 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA
March 2 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
March 3 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
March 5 - Stockholm, SE - Münchenbryggeriet
March 6 - Oslo, NO - Sentrum Scene