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鈥淚 didn鈥檛 think they were any good,鈥� said the 24-year-old Columbus, Mississippi, native who grew up in 蜜柚直播 and has been performing for four or five years.

But even so, he would road-test a few of those originals in his live shows at a handful of 蜜柚直播 bars including Cowpony, Saguaro Corners and Marana鈥檚 The Station, sneaking them in between covers of songs by his 1990s country heroes including Garth Brooks, George Strait and Brooks & Dunn, and his new favorites Cody Johnson and Luke Combs.

Last summer, he decided it was time to go all in on his music career. He teamed up with Duhamel 鈥淒u鈥� Cassell 鈥� aka 蜜柚直播-based DJ Du 鈥� to record an EP of six songs he had written over the years. The EP is still a work in progress and could be released early next year. On Aug. 14, he released the first single, 鈥淩un Away With Me.鈥�

Cassell, who has toured with the likes of Jason Aldean and shared the stage with other Nashville superstars including Luke Bryan and Locash, said the pair began working on the song last summer. But after months of tinkering, Cassell said it needed a little umph to make it more radio friendly. So he reached out to the band members of Locash, the Nashville duo of Preston Brust and Chris Lucas (鈥淚 Love This Life,鈥� 鈥淚 Know Somebody鈥�), who recorded the guitars, bass and drum parts from their respective studios. 蜜柚直播 country singer Robert Moreno played keyboards on the song, which was Miller鈥檚 first ever single.

鈥淚鈥檓 extremely happy with it and thankful for Du for helping out,鈥� Miller said.

鈥淩un Away With Me鈥� is a boy-meets-girl/girl-has-a-boyfriend tale of romantic woe that Miller wrote from personal experience. The song was inspired by a girl he met at the now-closed Denim & Diamonds country night club on East Broadway. When he asked her to dance, she told him she was taken. Toward the end of the song, he pleads with her: 鈥淚鈥檓 leaving 蜜柚直播 on a one-way flight / So run away / Run away with me tonight.鈥�

Miller had written the song three or four years ago and was playing it in his live shows, where his audiences would often ask where they could get the recording.

Cassell, a partner in the year-old Marana country night club Whiskey Roads, said Miller鈥檚 EP is one song away from being finished. The pandemic actually made it a little easier to recruit top-notch Nashville players to participate, although many of them are now back to work doing recording projects as their communities slowly start to reopen from months of being shut down due to COVID-19.

鈥淚 believe in this project,鈥� Cassell said. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 wait to get the whole thing out. Mark honestly is a dynamic performer on stage. ... The girls love him and he鈥檚 very country.鈥�