{"id":8121,"date":"2015-07-08T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2015-07-08T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:00:11","slug":"album-mini-review-rhett-miller-the-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/album-mini-review-rhett-miller-the-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Rhett Miller &#8212; The Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/rhett_miller_traveler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center>File Next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?tag=old-97s\"><strong>Old 97s<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/features\/pete_yorn.shtml\"><strong>Pete Yorn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00UYZMZ5Y&amp;asins=B00UYZMZ5Y&amp;linkId=WZAXC6QUNLDGVNDD&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his role as guitarist and lead vocalist of Old 97s, Rhett Miller has been at the modern-day vanguard of successful rock\/country cross-fertilization. His solo career dates back even farther than Old 97s&#8217; debut, and while he put solo efforts on hold for most of that band&#8217;s first decade, he resumed his solo career in 2002. <em>The Traveler<\/em> is Miller&#8217;s seventh album. <em>The Traveler<\/em> doesn&#8217;t represent a major shift in musical emphasis; while album&#8217;s arrangement choices mean that a track like \u201cJules\u201d features a string section that will remind listeners of <em>Out of Time<\/em>-era <strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> (specifically \u201cLosing My Religion\u201d), Miller&#8217;s straightforward songwriting always keeps the melodic quotient high. His breezy, laconic vocal delivery has a genuine (but not overly earnest) quality that makes listeners stop and pay attention to what he&#8217;s singing about. And nobody combines c&amp;w&#8217;s musical virtues with glam-rock quite like Miller does on \u201cMost in the Summertime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review previously appeared in the<\/em> Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Old 97s, Pete Yorn In his role as guitarist and lead vocalist of Old 97s, Rhett Miller has been at the modern-day vanguard of successful rock\/country cross-fertilization. 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