John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling 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 hes a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world hes 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. Millers 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.
