Rhett Miller, Courtney Jaye

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Rhett Miller

The pilot of alt-country heroes Old 97’s, Miller’s latest solo album is called The Misfit. The music is decidedly more far-out than the burn-the-barroom down-ballads of his full band. But then again, Miller has always been somewhat of a pop music astronaut. Miller made the latest record with his Hudson Valley neighbor, producer Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Danger Mouse), who also provided much of the instrumentation on The Misfit. That results in music more alt than alt-country, but Miller's storytelling muscle is as fit as ever. Opener Courtney Jaye self-describes her new album, Hymns and Hallucinations, as “spiritual music for weirdos.”

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