Upside Downside by Scott Miller (CD, Jun-2003, Sugar Hill) like new

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Album Features
UPC: 015891107424
Artist: Scott Miller & the Commonwealth
Format: CD
Release Year: 2003
Record Label: Sugar Hill
Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. It Didn't Take Too Long
2. Raised by the Graves
3. The Way
4. Pull Your Load
5. Second Chance
6. Relax, Now Chill
7. Amtrak Crescent
8. Angels Dwell
9. Ciderville Saturday Night
10. I've Got a Plan
11. Red Ball Express
12. For Jack Tymon

Details
Playing Time: 37 min.
Producer: Scott Miller, Eric Fritsch
Distributor: Welk
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Full performer name: Scott Miller & The Commwealth.Personnel: Jack Miller (vocals, various instruments); Eric Fritsch (keyboards, background vocals); Park Chiolm (bass); Shawn McWilliams (drums, background vocals).Recorded at Eastwood, The House Of David Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.Personnel: Scott Miller (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, harmonica); Eric Fritsch (vocals, slide guitar, accordion, piano, Clavinet, hand claps, percussion); Richard McLaurin (vocals, lap steel guitar, hand claps); Shaun McWilliams (vocals, drums, percussion); Park Chisolm (vocals, hand claps, percussion); Patty Griffith (vocals); Rob McNelley (electric guitar); Tim O'Brien (mandolin).Audio Mixer: Eric Fritsch.Recording information: Eastwood Studios, East Nashville, TN; House Of David, Nashville, TN.Photographers: Christopher S. Tuscan; Rich McCoig; David McClister.Scott Miller's solo debut, Thus Always to Tyrants, was an ambitious, stylistically diverse set that fully lived up to the promise of his earlier work with the V-Roys, running from pop to hard rock to bluegrass and sounding fiery and convincing at all turns. However, for his second album Miller opted for something a bit less grand, and while he often sounds a lot more relaxed on Upside Downside (so named because it was sequenced to have a rock side and an acoustic side), he also offers up a few throwaways, which wasn't the case on his first outing. "It Didn't Take Too Long" and "Pull Your Load" are wiry rockers that could have been written during a lunch break, and while they're both fun, they don't hold a candle to Thus Always to Tyrants' high points like "Yes I Won't" and "Mess of This Town," while "Chill, Relax, Now" is an (almost) instrumental that doesn't serve much of a purpose other than taking up space. But if Miller the rocker isn't especially well served on Upside Downside, Miller the singer/songwriter is in fine form, especially on the romantic "Angels Dwell" (with guest vocals from Patty Griffin), the modern-day train song "Amtrak Crescent," and "Red Ball Express," an evocative tale of life on the front lines during World War II. While "Raised By the Graves" and "Second Chance" prove Miller still has some great rock songs up his sleeve, Upside Downside's second half thoroughly outclasses the first half. Advice to Scott: Next time out, do a little more woodshedding with that electric guitar, fellah. ~ Mark Deming

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