I saw Dub at Shadow Canyon here in College Station and it was awesome!! It was the first live Dub show that I have been to, but it for sure won't be the last! If you ever get a chance, go check him out live...action-packed and energy-filled!! Strongly rivals a Pat Green showand that says a lot!

I saw Dub and his Highway 6 Band play at a real small bar in Gainesville on the eighth of July, and they were damn good. They played songs from everybody - from Buddy Holly to Bob Wills, from Robert Earl Keen to Billy Joe Shaver. It was a helluva good time, and if you buy the band drinks at the break, they play FASTER as the level of intoxication increases. We bought his album, and he is a writer. His strength, it seems to me, is in the story song tradition - kind of like Tom T. Hall, he can write songs that tell you about a person of some shit that happened, and it can make you laugh or cry or feel like you were there. It's a gift, and he's got a good band. They're worth going to see.

Excellent song writting. Some of the best to come along since the likes of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Dub's authentic Texas style truly comes from the heart.

Dub Miller is a thief. Pure and simple. All the best song writers will tell you that they are thieves, too. And Dub Miller only takes from the best things the Texas Music tradition has to offer. On "American Troubadour", Dub Miller conjures up smoky honky-tonks, just south of legal escapades, an elderly East Texas gentleman, an aging mercenary, and undying love all with equal clarity. Dub Miller, along with members of his Highway 6 Band and production from legend Lloyd Maines and crew, has put together an album full of color and vitality. In Texas, where the music world has been beset by half-hearted album attempts as of late, Miller has set himself apart by doing things better than the other guys. Miller realizes that when it comes to country music nothing is new and everything old is new again. The difference is Dub Miller wouldn't have it any other way. From "American Troubadour"'s first song the listener knows what it is they're in for. With "These Old Boots" Mr. Miller may very well be describing his own traditional style of music. "These old boot's are cracked and dusty, and worn out on the ends, But they've walked with me a thousand miles and they've become my friends." he sings. Right up front letting the world know that he intends on carrying on the country tradition and honky tonk burdens of his musical heroes past and present. As if we still were not convinced "The Dancer" does it for us again. Only better. This is the stuff Jack Ingram is riding all the way to the bank. Miller's song of an elderly east Texas man still dancing his life away fueled by the adoration of all the women whose hearts he's stolen on the dance floor. This song is ripe and ready for hot summer dance halls. By the time the fiddles kick in you'll have taken on this southern gentleman's philosophy for a happy life. On "Postcards From Paris"(written with Clay McIntosh) Miller gives us a hint of what he can do with a sad song, and a voice that may soon rival the Robison brothers ( Bruce and Charlie ) for communicating pure heartache. On "End Of Story" He let's these gifts fly, singing, "And I can't tell where my heartache ends and your's begins. But, now darling how will our story end." The effect might well make any Texan weep. The desperation of the character's regret shown more in the voice than the words. The anguish within the song betrayed more by Dub's subtle phrasing than by the words themselves. This summer, it is likely that many a tear will fall across Texas in time with these songs. With tunes like "Nine Miles North of Mason" and "Paying The Fiddler" (co- written with Miller's Highway 6 Band guitar player Matt Skinner) Miller sings story songs to make many of his contemporaries quit the business altogether. On the former Miller sings of an oil field worker who loses his hand in an accident but refuses to give in. This song is a beautiful daydream for every working man who has ever felt picked upon by fate, the company they give their lives to, their neighbors, the law, and the modern world in general. Story's this good are usually found on Robert Earl Keen CD's. The latter song more closely resembles the work of Mark David Manders. "Paying The Fiddler" is the story of an aging mercenary who left "McArthur's side." The character trading the glory and notoriety of an American hero for the freedom and easy money of being a soldier of hire. Now growing old in obscurity and realizing the fighting is finally over for him he seems to be questioning this decision. "Do they know of all the deeds he's done or know of the battles won. Now he's too old to fight and know one really cares." Dub Miller sings "Of the scars that his battered body bears" as if he carried a few of his own. To put together an album this good at such a young age I believe he must. Pay close attention folks. This is only Dub's first album. There are no doubt years of great song writing ahead.

Dub Miller's voice echoes the legends that have come before him, and he stays true to the tradition. This man IS Texas. Dub Miller is not another Jack Ingram/Pat Green ripoff. This CD has the same flavor of Guy Clark's, "Texas Cookin." Just one listen to Dub Miller and it is obvious that like Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen, he is going to be around a long time.

This CD is well written and a great buy between "postcard from Paris and 9 miles north of Mason" it covers all song types it is a great CD.