With his sixth solo record The Dreamer, Texan-turned-New Yorker Rhett Miller blends his Americana roots with a modern rock-pop sound. The result is a striking album of lyrical folk, with catchy melodies and some awesome Western guitar riffs. The frontman for Old 97′s talked to American Songwriter about becoming a “competent songwriter” and finding lyrical [...]

It seems that even Rhett Miller, one of the most accomplished songwriters of his generation, gets stuck from time to time. “Lost Without You,” a tune from Miller’s forthcoming solo album The Dreamer, is a jaunty, five-minute ditty of new love found and quickly lost. But the writing of the tune did not come easily. [...]

Etta James The Dreamer Verve Forecast Rating: Multi-genre – and genre-defining – singer Etta James is apparently calling it quits. After half a century of recording with and for legends, battling addiction, opening for the Stones, coming back from the bottom to win Grammys, and showing two generations of female vocalists that being a great [...]