Moe's Alley presents an evening with members of the Old 97's - Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond!

Tuesday, October 21st
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$25 in advance / $30 day of the show
21+

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RHETT MILLER
The tenth solo album from Rhett Miller, A lifetime of riding by night is a study in surrender. Days before undergoing potentially damaging surgery on his vocal cords, the Texas-born singer/songwriter headed into the studio with his Old 97’s bandmate Murry Hammond and recorded a batch of songs, then handed them off for Hammond to complete as he recovered. Threaded with his lived-in reflection on mortality and love in all forms, the album contains some of Miller’s most unguarded material yet—an achievement he attributes to revelations gleaned through his recent work in teaching songwriting at The New School in Manhattan, as well as the open-hearted nature of his collaborations with an eclectic lineup of co-writers (e.g., Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker, singer/songwriters Caitlin Rose and Nicole Atkins, former New Yorker editor Ben Greenman). Rooted in Miller’s soul-baring vocal work, A lifetime of riding by night ultimately proves the immense power in releasing all attempts to control the creative impulse.

Mainly recorded at Dave’s Room in Los Angeles, A lifetime of riding by night marks Miller’s first time enlisting Hammond as a producer since his solo debut album Mythologies (a 1989 LP created when he was 17-years-old). “Murry was a mentor to me when we made that first record all those decades ago, and this album felt like the right time to work with him in that capacity again,” he says. “I gave him carte blanche in a way I never have with any other producer—we went in and recorded 20 songs, and I flew home to New York without even knowing which songs he’d end up using or what the finished versions would sound like. I just let go and trusted Murry completely.”

MURRY HAMMOND
Murry here, and a little about me and the band you hear on my records.

I was born & raised in Texas, where in my 20's I co-founded alt-country legends Old 97s. Over the years the 97s have released more than a dozen studio albums and have appeared in films, television and had the pleasure of working with some of our musical heroes like X's John Doe & Exene, Waylon Jennings, and REM's Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey. I've written plenty within the group, both by myself and with my long time music partner Rhett Miller, but it was a few years living and writing as an Old 97 before I felt like my writing voice was unique enough to strike out on my own.