Rhett Miller talks about his ‘Nick Drake album’ ahead of show at LA’s Largo

In 2024, Rhett Miller was on the road with his band, Old 97’s, when his voice started to fray, showing wear and tear at both the higher and lower ends of his range.

A specialist found a cyst on one vocal cord and a polyp on the other, and Miller opted for surgery that December.

The odds were that he’d make a full recovery, but he knew that some people, including Julie Andrews, never got their voice completely back after surgery. So before the procedure, he carved out time to record...