Mic Harrison

Country-rock performer Mic Harrison, who handles vocals, songwriting, and guitar, grew up in Bradford, Tennessee. There he started a high-school group alongside drummer Jeff Bills plus Carl Bell and Jeff Abercrombie, the latter two of whom would later establish the band Fuel. After that ensemble dissolved, Harrison began assembling material for a solo project while employed at a sawmill. In 1995 Bills, already playing with the alt-country group the V-Roys in Knoxville, invited him to take over lead guitar from the departing John Paul Keith. Harrison relocated to Knoxville and completed the lineup with Bills, singer-guitarist Scott Miller, and bassist Paxton Sellers. The V-Roys secured a deal with Steve Earle’s E-Squared imprint, which Warner Bros. subsequently acquired; Harrison performed on the band’s second album, All About Town (1998), and its third and final release, Are You Through Yet? (1999), also supplying several original songs to both records. The V-Roys concluded their run with a final show on New Year’s Eve 1999. During the same period Harrison finished mixing tracks he had cut in 1993, issuing them as his first solo album, Don’t Bail, on the Lynn Point label he co-founded with Bills in 1999.

Harrison launched a fresh project, the Faults, in 2000, again featuring Sellers along with guitarist Robbie Trosper and drummer Jason Peters. Lynn Point put out the group’s self-titled debut the following year, yet the Faults disbanded quickly. Harrison then joined Superdrag and appeared on their album Last Call for Vitriol (Arena Rock, 2002). When Superdrag entered a hiatus in 2003 he resumed solo work, completing his second album, Pallbearer’s Shoes, which Valley Entertainment released on June 1, 2004. His third album, Push Me on Home, credited to Mic Harrison & the High Score, came out on Lynn Point on February 13, 2007. The accompanying musicians—Trosper, drummer Brad Henderson, and bassist Vance Hilliard—had already issued two prior albums of their own on the same label.