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Blueburst is the brainchild of an unlikely “new” artist: guitarist/vocalist Craig Douglas Miller, who’s releasing a debut album at age 50, reviving a music career he’d once written off. After major label interest for his 90’s band The Reach never quite panned out, Miller entered a 20-year musical hibernation, the result of untreated depression, writer’s block, and “a few too many gin & tonics” as Miller puts it. But after connecting with guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:4FuGPMSRvk95Wrx8GcVUR7" data-name="Marty Willson-Piper">Marty Willson-Piper</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:2ZfogSsOWP4mVfEqfpLXCt" data-name="The Church">The Church</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:14rNOocOS3RnmAKhT4GnU4" data-name="Noctorum">Noctorum</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7K54cORjC5COKJRqVfKkGf" data-name="MOAT">MOAT</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6OWPd5ByKaNSFAZ3TCe5AO" data-name="The Saints">The Saints</a>), Miller found what he’d sorely needed: a trusted mentor and collaborator. Miller dug in and recorded an album’s worth of original songs, with contributions from Willson-Piper, drummer Michael Jerome (<a href="spotify:artist:4UuoJfJ9UybJft7a8E6UHX" data-name="Better Than Ezra">Better Than Ezra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5w75MoT8FfcGOMgjgrj1cz" data-name="Richard Thompson">Richard Thompson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:34U0LzjVJB674qoJYBmuPE" data-name="Course Of Empire">Course Of Empire</a>) and bassist Ryan Kelly (<a href="spotify:artist:1JhDi6L9z15cwlfbAiHAFz" data-name="Dayroom">Dayroom</a>) among others. The result is lush, guitar-based alt-rock, rooted in 80’s alternative and post-punk, but with a timeless feel that alternately crunches, chimes, jangles and pounds. Blueburst’s debut album, Significance, dropped Oct 20th, 2023 to stellar reviews. Their most recent single, "The Pass", is a Rush song from the 1990's, reworked acoustically with no drums as tribute to Neil Peart.
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