Now ten albums into his solo career — while still keeping his day job as frontman for The Old 97’s — Rhett Miller delivers his most stripped-down and confessional work yet with A lifetime of riding by night.
This darker, more introspective tone can potentially be attributed to Miller’s recent gig teaching a songwriting class at Manhattan’s New School, asking his students to be vulnerable in their own writing. Regardless, there is a bare-it-all vulnerability that ties all these songs together. With his vocals, a strong, slightly nasally tenor, and acoustic guitar at the forefront of the near dozen songs here (plus a short prologue and interlude), the record is a pivot away from his last solo outing – 2022’s The Misfit, which leaned…
Rhett Miller – A lifetime of riding by night (2025)
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