Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Website: sherimiller.com
Band Members: sheri miller- vocals, guitar and piano.
Influences: First secret admission...I discovered the Beatles late. Later than the people who pretty much claim they were chilling in the womb listening to the White Album with a pair of tiny Sony headphones. Jon Brion changed my life one Friday night, about 7 years ago at Largo, when he played some wildly gorgeous songs with Elliott Smith. I was too young and naive to even realize what I was witnessing. Fiona Apple is a true original and so self-possessed artistically. Love her. Anyone named Elvis. Stevie Wonder's music makes me want to sing in a gospel choir. He is the human form of joy. Johnny Cash is the closest thing we have to a modern-day American hero and reminds me in some ways of my cowboy grandfather who wears sunglasses and boleros at age 90. Lucinda Williams' songs are so amazingly simple and direct (Essence record and "Sweet Old World") they make me want to take up a drug habit. Just kidding, mom. Bob Dylan is a prophet in black sunglasses. Etta James is my biggest singing influence, God bless her. Rodgers & Hart, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, Ron Sexsmith, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, Shelby Lynne. I'm digging KT Tunstall lately. And of course Charles Bukowski's poetry, so raw and real and gross and delicate. What a beautiful monster he was. Maya Angelou, who makes me want to crawl into sunflower fields to write poetry as sun fades into stardust. "The God of Small Things" tempts me to steal every line for a song. My tall angels who protect me in their white golden light. Dreaming and waking up in that groggy half-awake state, where the air is open and you can grab the little tiny things passing by. Hopefully you'll touch inspiration. Even just for a moment.
Sounds Like: honest, soulful music.
Type of Label: None