All right, here are John R. Miller, really excited. John, love your music. I've been listening

to it a lot lately. July 16th, the pre-shaded, the new album comes out. We'll get to that.

But for the fans that maybe are just learning about you, maybe listening to this and

having heard your music as much. It's kind of the back story because we definitely have some

questions about your journey, which is really interesting. But how would you kind of explain your

journey from starting to play music to where you are today in Nashville and making some really

awesome country music? Well, thanks for saying so. First off, and thanks for having me.

But yeah, I kind of started playing guitar when I was about 14, kind of trying to start

garage bands with friends mine when I was a teenager and kind of got more into like songwriters

and songwriting. About 18 or 19, someone showed me John Pran for the first time, you know, and sort of

you know, I think like anybody, here's John Pran for the first time. It sort of kind of opened my

whole world right up, you know, and this sounded like a magic trick. But I started playing with a

string band and writing songs for that around that time. And we did a lot of fiddle tunes, old time

music and stuff like that. And kind of played some original songs and we kind of did some touring

and some traveling. And we kind of, when we weren't able to get gigs starting off, we'd just kind of

go out to DC or New York or wherever to try to busk and earn a living that way. But we ended up doing

some, doing a lot of traveling with that band. And I got to meet a lot of people just traveling

around doing that for a number of years. And after that, I kind of was in and out of a whole bunch

of bands. I played bass for a lot of people. Just kind of trying to keep traveling and keep learning.

And yeah, I just loved traveling and playing music. So I just about play with anybody who'd have me.

And eventually moved down here when it's probably about a little over four years ago now

from West Virginia, which is, which is, I don't know if I said this, where I grew up.

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