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SUMMARY:Colin Miller
LOCATION:Brudenell Social Club
DESCRIPTION:When you lose someone you love\, you don't just lose them once
 \; you lose them in every moment you're reminded they aren't with you: in 
 the drive-thru line\, at the bar\, or in the home you shared. You bury the
 ir body\, sure\, but living with the grief becomes its own perpetual "layi
 ng to rest" ritual. In his second full-length album\, Losin'\, Colin Mille
 r - the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Asheville\, North Caroli
 na - looks deep into the shuttered places heartbreak stirs inside us all.
 \n\nLosin' is the follow-up to Miller's much-praised release Haw Creek\, w
 here listeners were ushered into his home and place of inspiration: the co
 mmunity of Haw Creek located in East Asheville\, North Carolina. His house
  and studio was owned by Gary King\, who Miller describes as a father figu
 re to him during his high school\, college\, and early adult life. He rent
 ed Gary's house for thirteen years and took after the property\, mowing th
 e untended tobacco fields and creating music while Gary grew old next door
  and the abandoned cars he collected for years sunk into the woods behind 
 his house.\n\nIn his early life\, Gary was a truck driver\, the owner of K
 ing Automotive\, and a member of Street-Tiques Car Club. As his health beg
 an to decline\, Miller adopted a caretaker role which meant going to the m
 ain house where Gary lived to give him haircuts\, watch NASCAR races\, bri
 ng groceries\, and supervise him as he insisted on smoking cigarettes clos
 e to his oxygen tank. On July 8th of 2022\, Gary passed away and his obitu
 ary mentions Miller in a long list of family and special friends. Gary was
  family - a support net\, a lighthouse\, and always just a call away as Co
 lin navigated early adulthood relationships and fears.\n\nMiller stayed in
  the house for two years after Gary passed away\, still mowing the yard on
  the hand-me-down mower\, grilling with friends on the front porch\, and w
 riting these songs. He knew it would eventually sell but dreamed of buying
  the land to save it along with some of the memories he accumulated. Yet\,
  he knew this place was fleeting. People came by now and then to buy thing
 s from the family - his tractor\, his truck\, his tools - and Colin bought
  powerball tickets and scratch-offs to try to win enough to buy the home. 
 In the spring of 2024 the inevitable came\, and the property was sold\, li
 kely to be torn down for development. Colin and the others that lived on t
 he land and grew close with Gary relocated and tried to move on.\n\nLosin'
  is the story of grief's impact on the psyche. You can't help but note the
  biographical moments in "Porchlight" and "Cadillac"\, arguably the most p
 op-forward songs on the album that highlight Miller's strong narrative voi
 ce and knack for catchy hooks. Some of the album's most beautiful lines ar
 e tucked between liminal lyric thoughts: "You got your shadow\, / I got mi
 ne\," Miller sings in from a place of meditation and introspection. In "Ca
 dillac"\, verses come like postcards of memories layered behind a crunchy 
 guitar riff: "NASCAR crash on the big screen / Shirtless in the July heat"
  and "Turn your lazy eye / Put me in the brights." Before the pedal steel 
 guitar whines one more time\, Miller shows us the funeral ride: "In the bl
 ood-black tinted window Cadillac / It's a good day at the wreck-yard / It'
 s a bad day for my heart."\n\nFrom the pit of grief\, Miller brings forwar
 d "Has Been"\, "Four Wheeler"\, and "Little Devil". These songs all embody
  a type of lyrical minimalism accompanied by ambient echoed instrumentatio
 n. It's like he lets the swelling soundscapes take over when he doesn't ha
 ve much to say. But in "Lost Again\," Miller gets back on the microphone t
 o unabashedly plead for some relief: "I don't need another Christmas morni
 ng / I don't need another birthday picture cake / I just need you here for
  a second." Here\, he's strong and not afraid to bare himself in all of hi
 s hurt: "So excuse me for looking like I lost my best friend."\n\nFrom the
  start\, Miller acknowledges that living inside of this grief is not an op
 tion forever. In "Birdhouse"\, the first track on the nine-song album\, he
  sings\, "If I stay here\, I will die in silence here." Fittingly and to s
 tarve off the swells of loneliness\, Miller partners with Alex Farrar at D
 rop of Sun Studio and enlists his best friends and support systems to play
  on the record: Jake Lenderman (MJ Lenderman / Wednesday) offers drums and
  lead lines\, Xandy Chelmis (MJ Lenderman / Wednesday) provides the pedal 
 steel\, and Ethan Baechtold (MJ Lenderman / Wednesday) on the bass and key
 s. As much as Losin' is a record about grief\, it's also a celebration of 
 life\, complete with collaboration from some of Miller's best friends stil
 l above ground.\n\n"I Need a Friend" and "Thunder Road" are the record's b
 est examples of the unique cocktail Miller brings to music today. He is at
  his sharpest when he lets his songwriting\, pop hooks\, and ambient influ
 ence blend together to tell stories. On Losin'\, these stories are as much
  observable and open as they are close-cutting and personal. How fitting t
 hat the record\, inspired by the car lover\, Gary King\, bookends with a b
 eautiful tribute to both him and Springsteen. In "Thunder Road"\, Miller s
 ings on the final verse\, "I'm bad to be your one and only / Living junior
  / Lay right next to your snow angel forever." In an album that is fraught
  with desperation\, there are notable moments of wake and resurrection whi
 ch compliment the heavy emotional swells we feel as listeners. So\, listen
  and take in the times when you have been visited by those who have moved 
 on. Hold the objects they left you in your hands in the sunlight. Visit th
 e places you went together. You will see them living eternally in everythi
 ng.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/yowwm2-colin-miller-9th-nov-brudenel
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