Rhett Miller is the eponymous album from Old 97's

Old 97's

The Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993, they have since released nine studio albums, two full extended plays, shared split duty on another, and have one live album. Their most recent release is The Grand Theatre, Volume Two...

 lead singer Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Stewart Ransom Miller II , better-known as Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' school in Dallas in 1989 and briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College on a creative...

. This is his fourth solo album, and first since his 2006 album The Believer. In a four-star review, Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

 called the album Miller's "strongest set yet."

Track listing

(All songs written by Rhett Miller, except where noted)

1. "Nobody Says I Love You Anymore"
2. "Like Love"
3. "Caroline"
4. "I Need to Know Where I Stand"
5. "Happy Birthday Don't Die"
6. "Bonfire"
7. "Haphazardly"
8. "If It's Not Love" (Miller, Matt Scannell
   Matt Scannell
   Matthew "Matt" Scannell is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician. Scannell is the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and founding member of the alternative rock band, Vertical Horizon....
   
   )
9. "Another Girlfriend"
10. "Refusing Temptation"
11. "Lashes"
12. "Sometimes"

Dedication

The album is dedicated to Miller's grandmother, Narene Miller, who died shortly before the album's release. The album notes also contain reference to Miller's friend and writer, David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...

, who died several months before the release of the album.

Personnel

• Rhett Miller - vocals, acoustic guitar, handclaps, electric guitar
• John Dufilho
  John Dufilho
  John Dufilho is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead creative talent behind indie rock band The Deathray Davies. He partnered with Davies bassist Jason Garner and released an eponymous CD in 2002 under the name I Love Math. A second release, "Getting To...
  
   - drums, tambourine, shaker, group vocal, mouth percussion
• Jon Brion
  Jon Brion
  Jon Brion is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.-Early life:...
  
   - bass, electric guitar
• Billy Harvey - electric guitar, piano, twelve-string acoustic, acoustic guitar, bass
• Rip Rowan - piano, tambourine, wurlitzer, handclaps, organ, lap percussion, mellotron, group vocal, mouth percussion
• Salim Nourallah
  Salim Nourallah
  Salim Nourallah is a Texas-based singer, songwriter, and producer.-Music career:Born in Alton, Illinois on May 3, 1967, the eldest child of Fayez and Karen Nourallah, Nourallah was raised in El Paso, Texas, where his family moved when he was three. With his brother Faris, Salim relocated to...
  
   - background vocals, bass, electric guitar, piano, twelve-string acoustic, organ, acoustic guitar, finger tap, tambourine
• Paul Averitt - background vocals, twelve-string electric, tambourine
• Jason Garner - bass
• Gavin Nourallah - raygun
• Kristy Kruger - background vocals
• John Lefler
  John Lefler
  John C. Lefler, born March 18, 1975 is an American songwriter, singer, guitarist, pianist and has been with Dashboard Confessional since 2002.-Early history:...
  
  - B4 organ, sampletron
• Jason Janik - Photography
• Aimee Macauley - Package Design