Lance Miller

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NAME: Lance Miller

BIRTHPLACE: Mt. Vernon, Illinois

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Nashville

PETS/NAMES: No pets

CAUSES/CHARITIES: St. Jude

INSTRUMENTS: Guitar

INFLUENCES: My Dad, Merle Haggard, Austin Cunningham

FAVORITE SONG OR SONG YOU WISH YOU HAD WRITTEN: You Were Always On My Mind

DESERT ISLAND ALBUMS: Merle Haggard box set, Van Halen - 5150, Rodney Crowell Diamonds and Dirt. I guess I better take some George Strait too and definitely my own album since it took me ten years to get to make it.

FAVORITE BOOK/MOVIE: Book Merle Haggards My House of Memories: For the Record, Movies The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Patriot, Dumb and Dumber, Christmas Vacation

HOBBIES: Golf, Fishing, Boating

WHEN DID YOU START PERFORMING: My first actual performance was at age 14. My Dad got me up with a few of his old band members at a Catholic wedding reception. I sang Thats The Way Love Goes.

BEST PLACE EVER PLAYED: Nashville Star Hometown visit Fairfield, IL. The gym was packed and the energy and love in the room was overwhelming.

WORST PLACE EVER PLAYED: Salt Petre Cave, pronounced Salt Peter Cave in Murphysboro, Illinois. It was a beautiful location and beautiful day. Unfortunately only four people showed up. Two were family and the other two were strippers. I did sell CDs to half the crowd, not sure which half. Oh yeahwe didnt get paid either.

FIRST ALBUM OWNED: KC and the Sunshine Band

FIRST CONCERT ATTENDED: My Dad opening for Barbara Mandrell, Newton, IL 1974.

THE STORY BEHIND GETTING SIGNED: It started when Buddy Cannon introduced me to Tracy Gershon. I auditioned and later became a finalist on Nashville Star where Tracy and the Warren Brothers were judges. After NS, Tracy came out to see me at a show at the Exit/In in Nashville. The Warren Brothers were already working with me by this time. To make a long story short, it is because of Tracy Gershon and the Warren Brothers belief in me that I have a deal today.

FIRST PERSON YOU CALLED AFTER GETTING YOUR DEAL: My wife

WORDS OF WISDOM/WORDS TO LIVE BY/BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: I think everyone reaches an age when you look back at what your parents taught you, and wonder if it all makes sense. I went through that a few years back. My Dad told me to borrow the good things I had learned from him, and throw the rest away. Dad said, Sometimes when you follow in your familys footsteps, it makes the rut deeper.