John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song

on his thrilling upcoming debut solo album,Depreciated, is lush with intricate

wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on

fire. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he’s “a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he’s seen,

three chords at a time.” Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written

compositions. Miller’s own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the

high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.