Bringing It All Back Home

Here and there, too, are dabs of reggae, strains of soul, for which Miller credits his hometown. "Miami influences me in every way. I can't pinpoint exactly where it shows up, except that it shows up in a complete and whole way," he insists. "It's just the sights and sounds and the smell and the sky. It's so home to me, and it's where I'm centered, and because of that, every lyric, every note of my work, comes from some sort of homage to this city."

"It's been eating me alive for the last three weeks," Miller says by cell phone, slightly out of breath as he dodges kamikaze pedestrians on the streets of New York's Chinatown. "The song is called 'I'm Just a Witness.' Basically Rauschenberg always looked at himself as a sort of journalistic artist; he always says he's just reporting.... I'm trying to get it as true as possible and give people an insight into an incredible artist."

Recently, too, he scored an on-air gig on XM Radio's Loft Sessions on Channel 50 the Loft, its outlet for intelligent singer-songwriters.

But while he continues to play behind Who We Are, with a number of performances scheduled before and during the upcoming CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival in New York, the ever-prolific Miller is on a writing binge.

"I wouldn't say I'm thinking about a new album yet, but that's the next step later down the road. Although 99.9 percent of the world probably hasn't heard of me yet, I've been playing these songs for the last year," he says, "so I'm ready to put more stuff together."