LA-based and Detroit-born singer-songwriter JC Miller has released new single “Wayward Son“. The track is “ultimately a lament for lost time and the relentless hand of fate.”

As always, Miller works with musician-Producer Marty Rifkin (Tom Perry, Glen Campbell) on the track, who is also a member of Bruce Springsteen’s The Sessions Band where he plays pedal steel.

JC Miller shares:

‘Wayward Son’ was brought on by the feeling of being uprooted and overtaken by events and time… “In the fast lane comes change, still going but slowing to a crawl”… the opening lines say it all … My “truck-flattened history” … I’m “Longing for something I can’t quite name”  

Miller explains:

I read a lot of Larry McMurtry and I love the character development and the fact that he achieves a majesty — not through aggrandizing things but quite the opposite – questioning the essence of the lost rancho days, the wildcat era, the blasting juke boxes, the rough side of roadside taverns … the world on the road… The end of an era does not invalidate it … by being honest in his appraisals McMurtry prompts us to admire these flawed heroes even more IMO…

Creating “music for wanderers,” Miller pays homage to timeless artists like Neil Young, Leon Russell and The Band as much as prose of writers like Larry McMurtry, Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy.