West Virginia-raised, Tennessee-based alt-country singer John R. Miller will follow 2021’s Depreciated with new album Heat Comes Down on October 6 via Rounder Records (pre-order). The album was made with producers Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff, etc) and John James Tourville (of The Deslondes) at Tokic’s Bomb Shelter studio in Nashville, and John was backed by several members of his longtime live band (John Clay Burchett, J. Tom Hnatow, Chloe Edmonstone), as well as bassist Craig Burletic, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Taylor, and an all-female trio of backing vocalists.
John recently released lead single “Nobody Has To Know Your Mind,” and we’re now premiering a live-in-studio video for another, not-yet-released track on the album, “Ditcher.” It’s a somber country song that John says “wrote itself after I’d been awake for about thirty-six hours.”
“I had been in a fever, recording and working on songs for several days in the basement of the house I used to live in in Madison, TN, and I started playing a melody that knocked me in the head,” he says. “The words came out in about ten minutes and I made a fully-formed demo of it right away, which has maybe only happened to me a handful of times. I don’t know where it came from, but I liked it enough that it became one of my favorites on the record, as well as the source of the album’s title.”
Check out the video and John’s upcoming list of tour dates (including Bethel, NY’s Catbird Music Festival) below.
Tracklist
1. Nobody Has To Know Your Mind
2. Insomnia Blues
3. Harpers Ferry Moon
4. Ditcher
5. Crumbling Pie
6. Smokestacks On The Skyline
7. Summer Lens
8. Conspiracies, Cults & UFOs
9. John R Miller – Basements
10. Dollar Store Tents
11. Press On
John R. Miller — 2023 Tour Dates
Jul 19 – Burlington, VT – Nectar’s
Jul 21 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
Jul 22 – Nelsonville, OH – Nelsonville Music Festival
Jul 26 – Thomas, WV – Purple Fiddle
Jul 27 – Winchester, VA – Bright Box Theater
Jul 28 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
Jul 29 – Galax, VA – The Blue Ridge Music Center
Aug 19 – Aug 20 – Bethel, NY – Catbird Music Festival
Sept 27 – St Louis, MO – Off Broadway
Sept 29 – Denver, CO – Cervantes’ Other Side
Sept 30 – Boulder, CO – eTown Hall
Oct 4 – Bozeman, MT – Rialto Bozeman
Oct 5 – Columbia Falls, MT – The Coop
Oct 6 – Spokane, WA – Lucky You Lounge
Oct 7 – Walla Walla, WA – Billsville West
Oct 8 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
Oct 10 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
Oct 12 – Portland, OR – Show Bar
Oct 13 – Talent, OR – The Talent Club
Oct 14 – Albany, CA – Ivy Room
Oct 15 – Mariposa, CA – The Grove House
Oct 16 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy + Harriet’s
Oct 18 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer
Oct 20 – Los Angeles, CA – Gold-Diggers
Oct 21 – Phoenix, AZ – Last Exit Live
Oct 24 – San Antonio, TX – The Lonesome Rose
Oct 25 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
Oct 26 – Austin, TX – The White Horse
Oct 27 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips
Oct 29 – Little Rock, AR – White Water Tavern
Oct 30 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
Nov 2 – Chattanooga, TN – Songbird South
Nov 3 – Macon, GA – Grant’s Lounge
Nov 4 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl
Nov 5 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre
Nov 7 – Charleston, SC – The Charleston Pour House
Nov 8 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
Nov 9 – Richmond, VA – The Camel
Nov 10 – Thomas, WV – Purple Fiddle
Nov 11 – Morgantown, WV – 123 Pleasant Street
Nov 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
Nov 14 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
Nov 15 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Café
Nov 16 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House Revival
Nov 18 – Lexington, KY – The Burl
Nov 19 – Nashville, TN – 3rd & Lindsley