Rhett Miller
A Lifetime of Riding By Night
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Rhett Miller has been making records since he was 17 years old, and he's become a cult hero both as the frontman with alt-country lifers the Old 97's and as a solo artist drawn to smart, incisive pop music. His real or imagined life as a ladies' man was one of his favorite themes until 2015, when he finally came to terms with his alcoholism and got sober. Since then, Miller hasn't turned into a monk or a killjoy, but he's been willing to write with a greater maturity, giving a lot more thought to the consequences of bad behavior. Looking a potentially scary future in the face is not something that comes easy to Miller, and yet he does that with clarity and insight on 2025's A Lifetime of Riding by Night. The album feels like the work of a man who is wondering if fate is going to soon collect an overdue bill, and there's a good reason. Miller frequently blew his voice out while touring steadily with the Old 97's in 2023 and 2024, and when he discovered he couldn't hit his highest and lowest notes anymore, a trip to the doctor delivered sobering news -- he had a cyst on one vocal cord and a polyp on the other. While his problems could be treated with surgery, he was informed there was a ten percent chance it would fail and he'd never sing again. Before the operation, Miller went into the studio with Old 97's bassist Murry Hammond as producer, knowing there was a small chance he'd never make another album, and that informs the sound and feel of A Lifetime of Riding by Night.
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