The 2003 release on Powerless Pop by Chicago alternative country/folk-pop singer/songwriter Chris Mills, Plays and Sings/Nobody's Favorite combines two of his earliest releases. Plays and Sings was Mills' debut, a 7" single released in 1995 by Sugar Free containing two songs: "Nowhere Town" and "Steel Walls and Iron Bars." Nobody's Favorite was also released in 1995 by Sugar Free. It is a seven-track EP that features another version of "Nowhere Town" and the despairing   [ read more ]

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The latest collection from one of America's most wandering-est of wandering troubadours. After almost a decade of rave reviews and countless shows in stadiums and shoeboxes (the past 2 years alone have seen him touring alongside Ben Folds, Bishop Allen, Lucero and many more). Harvesting music and lyrics from headlines, horror movies, four-color ash-can adventures, and the black and white reflections of late night re-reruns, Mills returns with a raw and ready collection of true rock n' roll numbers, each one   [ read more ]

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Chris Mills' fourth full-length release was simultaneously recorded and mixed live to a 2-track tape machine, with no overdubs, no more than five takes of any song, and seventeen musicians filing in and out of the room. Ten incredible songs that prove the simplest and oldest means of making music is still the one that works the best. Features Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kelly Hogan, and members of Giant Sand, Head of Femur, Sea & Cake, and more.[ read more ]

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The 4th full-length. Recorded live in the studio with the 17-piece City That Works Orchestra.Spector-sized sound for today.

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Chris Mills is a talented singer/songwriter who specializes in heartache with occasional undercurrents of bitterness and self-pity. Unfortunately, he has a tendency to sound somewhat generic, a limitation that is particularly evident on "Sleepwalking," which seems so much like the work of a run-of-the-mill (no pun intended) bar band that it's easy to overlook the less-routine lyrics. On some of the other tracks, David Nagler and Eric Roth contribute tasteful string and horn arrangements th   [ read more ]

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