**** Review of Thus Always to Tyrants, Uncut Magazine, October 2001

If Scott Miller sounds like a surrogate Steve Earle, it's hardly surprising, Miller was part of the late lamented V-Roys, whose albums were produced by Earle, and his first solo album strongly bears the great man's influence. The blend of rock guitars, muscular melodies, roots sensibility and brutally honest lyrics make it an outstanding debut, and "Absolution" ranks as one of the great drinking songs of our time. Spirited, sassy and visceral, Billboard reckons it's the best roots-rock album of the year. They may not be far wrong.

 

Nigel Williamson