John R. Miller w/ William Matheny

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH @ 8PM DOORS, BAR, & KITCHEN OPEN at 7PM SHOW at 8PM TICKETS GENERAL ADMISSION: $25 + admission tax & processing fee DAY OF SHOW: $30 + admission tax & processing fee Advance ticket sales end at 11:30pm the day before the show. If tickets are not sold out by this time they will be available for purchase when the doors open. ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES unless the show is postponed or cancelled IMPORTANT INFO This is an ALL STANDING show There will be no tables available All ages FOOD & DRINK available for purchase JOHN R. MILLER As John R. Miller started making plans to record his fourth album, his thoughts turned to challenging himself not just musically, but geographically. “I wanted to get out of my comfort zone, go somewhere less familiar to me and try a new approach,” he says. Born in the Washington, DC area and raised in West Virginia, Miller is a studious and acclaimed representative of the sound usually categorized as alt-country or Americana, but his work is rooted in sources from the punk he grew up around to more unconventional paths in rock history. So when the idea of heading to Tulsa and working at Leon Russell’s legendary, recently reopened Church Studio came up, Miller took notice. “Immediately the gears started turning,” he says. “Tulsa is one of the great legacy-bearing cities of American music—J.J. Cale is one of my all-time favorites, and Shelter Records was based there. So much of what I love in music history happened right around that block.” The result is The Great Unknowing—an ambitious, sprawling project that extends the sound and scope of Miller’s previous releases, 2021’s Depreciated and the 2023 follow-up Heat Comes Down. Those albums earned him praise from outlets including Spin and American Songwriter; Tyler Childers called him “a well-traveled wordsmith…

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