Jack Miller, Amarillo

JACK MILLER- Sandman b/w All Alone (Demand 7-11001, 1962)

The "Jack Miller Amarillo" internet search isn't helpful. While it does actually lead to a folk artist named Jack Miller that sounds eerily similar and has a connection to Amarillo, that road ends there. Mayhaps this Jack Miller is an architect from down south. Or still involved in Amarillo life.

And the producer lead might have ended with a train accident in 90s.

But whoever Jack Miller is he turned in two good-to-great moody teen folk laments on this 1962 release. And it's actually a surprising sound that doesn't strike me as 1962. You still had Amariller fellers ape'ing Buddy Holly, but here's this kid shooting off in another direction. There's a shimmering 50s optimism to "Sandman"... sorta like an ethereal Ricky Nelson. But in the same breath n' strum can hear the strumming singer/songwriter guitar folk of that was still 5 years off.