With her Joan Jett vibe, songwriting chops, and outstanding vocal tone, Alberta’s Shaela Miller has never bowed to the constant, overwrought attention-seeking bombast so common to today’s country radio.
As one of the Canadian prairie underground’s most respected independent artists, Shaela Miller is playing the music she wants to, adding the elements that progress for her vision, while firmly grounded in that go-to sound generation after generation grew up hearing on AM radio in single-cab farm trucks; picked-up shuffles and sweet, yearning songs depicting both the good times and hard times that only get written by someone who’s lived every minute of them.
Amid the subtlety of Miller’s classic sawdust boogie, Big Hair, Small City, the latest single, shows her growing, record cutting maturity, adding just the right elements to build a distinct Tennessee Noir.
Classic Brill Building harmonies add a piece of the city to the churchy vibes of vintage organ tones painting her arrangements, a neon-sign-hanging-in-a-stained-glass-window feel.