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CRS 2021 New Faces

An accomplished performer with more than two decades of professional experience as a singer, songwriter, producer and voice actor, Jason Charles Miller has quietly established himself in the Country and Southern Rock genres.

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Jason Charles Miller is set to release a new album, From the Wreckage – Part One.. The first single from the album, “Better Late Than Never,” is available now via all streaming platforms. Straddling the line between rock and country, the new single and forthcoming album will be released through Miller’s own Haunted Mill Music record label, and puts his gritty, passionfilled style on full display.

“I threw out “Better Late Than Never” as a title to start with and he jumped on it right away. We actually wrote the song in ‘open G’ tuning, which always intimidates me, but I soldiered through it. The original writer’s demo is starkly different than the final recorded version, but the bones are unmistakably there. It’s basically a song about getting ghosted, and just wanting to know why. We all have that friendship or relationship that ends for no known reason. This song is all about wanting to know why. You know it’s over, and you’ve accepted that, you just want to know why. To close the book, to learn something about yourself or for your own personal growth. Was it your fault? Was it them? Not knowing why is the worst feeling!” ~ Jason Charles Miller

Produced by Jason Charles Miller, Stewart Cararas and Matt Hyde, From the Wreckage – Part One is Miller’s fifth fulllength and sixth studio release. The album features several collaborations, including Adam Shoenfeld (Tim McGraw) playing lead guitar and “Cowboy” Eddie Long (Jamey Johnson) playing pedal steel on “Better Late Than Never,” Duane Betts of the Allman Betts Band on “Expiration Day,” and Katie Cole from Smashing Pumpkins on “Day After

Jason Charles Miller From the Wreckage - Part One

Day” along with Eban Schletter (film composer) playing the theremin.

“I have so many friends who happen to also be great musicians, and I love collaborating with them,” said Miller. “I live in Los Angeles, so when friends from Nashville travel through on tour, I try and grab ‘em while I can and hit the record button - not to mention all the amazing musicians who live in Los Angeles. My long-time collaborator and friend Stewart Cararas was paramount in helping me complete both this album, and Part Two, another seven tracks that we are planning to release in summer 2021. And of course, I need to mention the great Matt Hyde - he produced my last full-length album, and we continue to work together when our schedules permit.”

In 2019, Miller was lead vocalist on the Billboard chart-topping theme song for the ‘Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers’ video game. He has also contributed two songs to the critically acclaimed ‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’ sound track and sang backup for Robert Smith of The Cure on the Reeves Gabrels/Robert Smith track “Yesterday’s Gone.”

“I think someone today that only writes songs is getting rare,” said Miller, “You’ve got to be a hybrid in today’s musical world. Music executives today want to fit you in to whatever their needs are, as opposed to promoting your natural talent. Americana pays tribute to original country music and infuses lots of rock. It’s basically what country isn’t. I’m just trying to be authentically me.”

As a voice actor, Miller has hundreds of animated and video game credits, and has even narrated a film for NASA. As the front man and founder of the rock band Godhead, he was the only artist ever signed to Marilyn Manson’s Posthuman Records and sold more than 250,000 albums touring the world with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Rammstein, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Korn front man Jonathan Davis. In 2004, Miller penned the all-star collaboration “Forever in Our Hearts,” a song to benefit the victims of the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, which included Brian McKnight, Mya, Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach), Nate Dogg, and many more.

Originally from Clifton, VA, Miller now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he owns and runs the successful recording complex Central Command Studios.

For more information on Miller visit, www.jasoncharlesmiller.com

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