Rob Miller’s story exudes rock-and-roll aura. His first concert ended with someone vomiting on him (it was an Alice Cooper show). Decades later, Miller helped define an entire corner of American roots ...

In 1991, Rob Miller packed up his bags, his records and his memories and moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Chicago as an attempt to escape music. “Obviously, my plan didn’t work out so well,” Miller ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Bloodshot Records co-founder and former owner Rob Miller about his memoir, "The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low." SIMON: It was dubbed alt-country or even ...

The Austin-based one-man band channels George Jones to create a honky-tonk ballad that’s the perfect soundtrack for drowning your woes in the company of your demons.

SIMON: It was dubbed alt-country or even y'allternative, bubbling up alongside alternative rock and grunge. Rob Miller called it insurgent country. And in 1993, he co-founded Bloodshot Records, an ...