Subject: Scott Miller

• Live Shots: Scott Miller

  February 28, 2007

• Last Night: Scott Miller at the Mucky Duck

  May 14, 2008

• Tonight: Scott Miller and Mike McClure at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

  Scott Miller, "Drunk All Around This Town" Long ago, Scott Miller had a brief essay on his website about playing writers-in-the-round gigs. In his eyes, such shows come down to you, the one good, talented, brilliant songwriter sitting there silently wishing these other hacks would finish their goddamn long lame-ass story about why they wrote the song and just play the damn thing so it'll be your turn again. Yet the artist has to successfully act like he's hanging on every word the oth

  December 11, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives

  A few months back, Music Editor Chris Gray's Noise column bemoaned the fact that the 'roll' has pretty much disappeared from rock and roll. Enter John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives. Keith has an interesting history and rock and roll pedigree. His roommate in Knoxville, Tennessee, back in the day was another pretty fair songwriter and rocker, Scott Miller. In fact, their band the Viceroys had a short fuse and high energy that made them the club kings of Knoxville. Keith eventually l

  December 22, 2008

• Pasta Tense

  July 6, 1995

• Dish

  November 12, 1998

• SXSW: Scott Miller

  Photo by clared23 "I've been drunk all around this town, from the downside up to the upside down...." So sings Scott Miller in "Drunk All Around this Town," which he calls "the most beautiful ballad I have ever written." That might not be true but it is a most apropos song for SXSW, and it never sounded better than it did Thursday night at Waterloo Ice House. Like John Prine, Miller is not just a funny songwriter, although can be one of the most humorous out there. He can also come up with line

  March 23, 2009

• MySpaced Out: "Fuck Radiohead" and Some Twisted Tennesseeans

  Aurélie Decourteix The Russian Sextoys: No Thom Yorke fans, they.MySpace is a great place for discovering off-the-wall tunes and performers. Here are three wack jobs from cyberspace that hail from that weird place that Captain Beefheart found so easily and in so many forms. The Russian Sextoys: For every Radiohead fan, there's someone like this French trio who'd like to see the pretentious, self-absorbed hipsters loaded into a capsule and fired into deep space. Like the old Budweiser co

  April 8, 2009

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  December 11, 2008

• Scott Miller & The Commonwealth

  Thus Always to Tyrants (Sugar Hill)

  July 5, 2001

• Holocaust Museum Houston Lecture Series

  Examining Anti-Semitism

  July 19, 2007

• Houston Radio Still Sucks

  David Sadof shares his dream station with Racket

  May 10, 2007

• Ridin' Cupcake

  The Scooter Scene

  November 16, 2006

• Leaving the Wolfe Pack

  It's Johnny Falstaff's time to "Shine"

  October 12, 2006

• Scott Miller & the Commonwealth

  Scott Miller appears Tuesday, September 26, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 21, 2006

• Just Say Ho

  A Tennessee-based Virginia rocker salutes the Big Drunk in song; also: Mary Cutrufello gets back on track

  May 25, 2006

• It's a Gas

  Pump pains constrain some musicians and inspire others

  May 18, 2006

• Dana Cooper

  Made of Mud

  December 1, 2005

• The Bolivar Kid Strikes Again

  Hayes Carll continues H-town's hot streak with Little Rock

  April 7, 2005

• Playbill

  September 2, 2004

• Best Jukebox

  Under the Volcano

  September 25, 2003

• The South's Done It Again

  Southern rock comes in for another revival

  September 11, 2003

• Pull Your Load

  Get with Scott Miller right now

  August 28, 2003

• ¡Viva Compadre!

  Texas's greatest living songwriter signs with a Houston indie label

  August 8, 2002

• It Ain't Me, Babe

  When Jack Ingram chose the path of most resistance, he stumbled across himself

  June 6, 2002

• The Gift Of Music

  2001’s top ten picks

  November 29, 2001

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Scott Miller at McGonigel's Mucky Duck Friday

  Scott Miller's new album, For Crying Out Loud, finds Miller still rocking, but often in a folky, more Appalachian approach than on previous records. Working with Nashville vet Michael Webb, Miller has put together a rocking album that stays true to his mostly rural musical roots. Of course, with Miller, the line between rural music and garage is a thin, faded demarcation at best. Miller has a track record of dropping wish-I'd-written-that lines and he doesn't disappoint here, with lines like "Th

  June 16, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Scott Miller Leaves Label, Licks Stamps

  How bad has the music business gotten? We seem to be living in an age when record labels are sinking like the Titanic, when fewer and fewer artists can get a label deal, when the gate to radio is harder to get through than St. Peters Gate. On the Americana scene, labels like Bloodshot and a few other independents seem to have found a formula for, if not swimming in streams of gold, at least making a living and staying afloat. But the true story is more like venerable bluegrass/roots label Sugar

  July 22, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Last Men Standing

  ​Lonesome Onry and Mean vaguely remembers someone telling us a couple of years ago that Las Vegas bookies actually had a line on whether Chuck Berry would die that year (we think it was 2007). The macabre factor aside, remembering this Wednesday got LOM to pondering about the Godfathers of Rock and Roll and who would indeed be, per the title of Jerry Lee Lewis' recent album, the Last Man Standing. Not meaning to demean the contributions of artists like Dave Bartholomew, but in our mind there a

  November 12, 2009