Before Brandon Miller knew anything about nostalgia, one song already had the power to change the feeling of a room. His father, Russell Miller, worked long stretches away from home on pipelines. When he returned, the following morning had its own familiar details: bacon and eggs in the kitchen, the family together again, and BOSTON’s debut album playing through the speakers.
Then came “More Than a Feeling.”
For Miller, now the founder and frontman of A Foreigner’s Journey to Boston (AFJ2B), the song became inseparable from those mornings. Fifty years after BOSTON released its landmark debut album in 1976, he has recorded his own anniversary tribute with producer Kent Wells, honoring the late Brad Delp and the work of songwriter, musician, engineer and producer Tom Scholz.
A song attached to the sound of home
Miller was born in 1991, 15 years after “More Than a Feeling” first appeared. His relationship with the song therefore has little to do with remembering its original release. He inherited it through family, repetition and the particular way music can attach itself to a place.
In his memory, that place is a kitchen.
His father had been away. Breakfast was cooking. BOSTON was playing. The opening of “More Than a Feeling” meant the household was complete again.
“This song means so much to me because it’s a huge part of my childhood,” Miller says. “One of the reasons why I chose to be a singer is because of Brad Delp, and Tom Scholz’s brilliance as an engineer, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.”
Delp’s voice became one of Miller’s reasons for singing himself. Scholz’s meticulous approach to writing, performance and recording offered another kind of education. What began as a childhood soundtrack gradually became part of Miller’s own musical vocabulary.
Covering a song you consider untouchable
That history also created a problem. Recording a song that helped shape you means working under the shadow of everything you already love about the original.
“Brad Delp and Tom Scholz are two of my biggest heroes, and I wanted to honor them and their legacy,” Miller says. “I was born in 1991, so I’m from a completely different generation, but I understand how important this music is and how it became part of the soundtrack to millions of lives, including mine.”
His conclusion was straightforward: “If I was going to take on a song this legendary, I wanted to do it right and do it justice.”
Miller worked on the recording with producer Kent Wells, whose career includes a longstanding collaboration with Dolly Parton as well as work involving artists including Steve Perry, Steven Tyler, Rob Halford, Mötley Crüe, Stevie Nicks, Sting and Elton John.
The anniversary arrived after the idea
Curiously, the 50th anniversary was not the reason AFJ2B began working on the song. Miller realized after the project was underway that 2026 marked half a century since BOSTON’s self-titled debut arrived in 1976.
The coincidence gave an already personal recording another layer. Instead of selecting a famous song because an anniversary offered a convenient reason to revisit it, Miller found himself making the tribute at the moment the original was reaching a significant milestone.
There is also a direct thread between AFJ2B and BOSTON. Guitarist Kimberley Dahme previously performed as a member of BOSTON, touring with Delp and Scholz and contributing to Corporate America and Life, Love & Hope. She now brings that history to A Foreigner’s Journey to Boston.
Why the memory inside the song still matters
“More Than a Feeling” has always understood the peculiar relationship between music and memory. A melody can collapse years without warning. A room returns. So does a person. Sometimes the smallest physical details come with them.
Miller has spent 18 years working in music and previously toured as a guitarist with Artimus Pyle of Lynyrd Skynyrd. He nearly left music behind before an experience in late 2024 changed his direction and eventually led to the creation of A Foreigner’s Journey to Boston.
His version of “More Than a Feeling” brings that path back to one of its earliest points. Before the touring, recording and years spent performing, there was simply a child hearing Brad Delp sing while his father made breakfast.
Half a century after Tom Scholz wrote a song about the way music can return us to another time, Miller has supplied it with another memory. His is not Marianne walking away. It is Russell Miller coming home.
And somewhere inside the new recording, that kitchen remains: breakfast on the stove, BOSTON through the speakers, and the quiet certainty that Dad is home again.
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