Rhett Miller
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"Stewart Ransom Miller II ", better-known as "Rhett Miller", is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' school in Dallas, Texas/Dallas, in 1989 and briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College on a creative writing scholarship before dropping out to pursue a music career. His first musical endeavor was in 1990 with Murry Hammond and drummer Benjamin Warrenfells, who formed the Sleepy Heroes, an alterna-pop band. The Sleepy Heroes released one album, Under a Radio Sun, before their breakup.

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It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country.

I'm tickled to death with the way we played. They're supposed to be tops in their district. They've got seven seniors and they're all returning starters.

We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because he's a great player, but we pretty much controlled the game. We worked the ball real well.

Ended up covering Lennon's wistful ''Girl.

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

From my viewpoint it was in the box. The divot that was made was in the box, in my viewpoint.

I thought we had a better opportunity to sneak up on them after Hoptown's second goal. But our problem was, we couldn't handle their speed. We couldn't stay with them all over the field.

It was an obvious foul, it was just a matter of where it occurred.

Says he was infatuated with the Beatles from his toddler years, asking his mother if Daddy was the ''Nowhere Man.