SONGS WORTH LISTENING TO.

Some musicians learn to play the guitar.

Others discover a voice entirely their own.

At thirteen years old, Corey Coleman Miller wasn't studying under just another neighborhood guitar teacher. He became the protégé of Marzi Montazeri—internationally respected guitarist for Superjoint Ritual, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, Exhorder, Heavy As Texas, founder of Marzi's Army, and widely known throughout the guitar world as “The High Priest of Distortion.”

Only weeks into Corey's lessons, Marzi walked into the waiting room, looked at his father, and quietly said, “This kid is a genius.”

That moment would become the first of many milestones in a musical journey defined by creativity, discipline, and an unwavering commitment to the craft.

A trip to the prestigious Berklee Guitar Sessions in Boston further shaped Corey's direction. Winning first place allowed him to meet acclaimed guitarist Greg Howe, the featured guest artist that summer. The experience reinforced something Corey already knew—music wasn't simply something he loved; it was what he was meant to do.

Determined to understand every aspect of creating music, Corey followed in the footsteps of his cousin, multi-Grammy Award-winning engineer Andrew Coleman, graduating from Full Sail University in 2009 with a degree in Recording Arts.

Returning to Houston, Corey became much more than SiennaBlu's lead guitarist.

He became one of its principal composers.

Whether beginning with a memorable guitar riff, an unexpected chord progression, an unusual time signature, or a complete instrumental arrangement, Corey approaches every composition with one simple philosophy: Serve the song.

His influences reach far beyond traditional rock. Progressive rhythms, jazz harmony, country textures, cinematic orchestration, R&B grooves, blues, and emotionally driven melodies blend naturally into a style that refuses to fit neatly inside any one genre. After seeing the Trans-Siberian Orchestra perform live at sixteen years old, he became fascinated with large-scale arrangements and dramatic musical storytelling—an influence that can still be heard throughout SiennaBlu's music today.

In 2006, Corey joined his father's fledgling rock band as lead guitarist, making his live debut at Houston's legendary Fitzgerald's during the Emergenza Concert Series while performing songs from SiennaBlu's debut release, To The Afterglow.

The years that followed included performances throughout Texas, three appearances on FOX 26 Morning News, a victory in the Houston semi-finals of the Bodog Battle of the Bands televised on FUZE TV, and a second-place finish in the Houston Finals at the Verizon Wireless Theatre.

Away from music, Corey has always embraced creativity in many forms. From custom automotive fabrication and commercial photography to digital imaging and construction management, he approaches every challenge with the same qualities that define his musicianship—craftsmanship, curiosity, precision, and an uncompromising work ethic. Today, he serves as a superintendent overseeing the construction of luxury apartment communities for one of the Gulf Coast's largest builders.

For more than twenty years, Corey's creative partnership with lyricist and vocalist Keith Luke has become the heartbeat of SiennaBlu.

Most songs begin with Corey.

A guitar riff becomes a progression.

A progression becomes an arrangement.

An arrangement becomes an emotional landscape waiting for a story.

Keith then steps into that musical world, weaving melodies and lyrics through the music until each composition finds its voice.

From there, the two songwriters challenge one another, refine every detail, and continue shaping each piece until it becomes exactly what it was meant to be.

Built on friendship, mutual respect, and a shared commitment to writing timeless music rather than following trends, the songwriting team of Corey Coleman Miller and Keith Luke continues to define the sound and creative spirit of SiennaBlu.

Keith has never been interested in writing songs just for the sake of writing songs. He's interested in people.

Growing up in a small town in Southeast Texas, Keith spent his summers in the bayous of Southwest Louisiana, where long days were filled with fishing, hunting, family, and the simple rhythms of life in the South. Those experiences gave him an appreciation for honest storytelling long before he ever picked up a guitar.

As a teenager, Keith performed with a touring show choir, traveling to schools throughout Texas and discovering the unique connection that exists between a performer and an audience. Music wasn't simply entertainment. It had the ability to move people, comfort them, and create memories that lasted long after the performance ended.

That belief stayed with him as he entered the medical field. During breaks at the hospital where he worked, Keith would often bring his guitar and play for patients—especially those who had no visitors. It wasn't part of his job. He simply believed that a song, a conversation, or a familiar melody could make someone's day a little brighter.

“I just like people,” he says.

It's a simple statement, but it explains nearly everything about the way Keith approaches songwriting.

For more than two decades, Keith has partnered with composer and guitarist Corey Coleman Miller in one of the defining creative relationships behind SiennaBlu. Most songs begin with Corey, who develops the music, the arrangements, and the emotional landscape of each composition. Keith listens to where the music wants to go, then begins crafting the melodies and lyrics that give each song its voice. Their process is less about dividing responsibilities than about trusting one another's instincts.

One builds the musical world; the other fills it with characters, emotions, and stories.

Keith believes songwriting is much like cooking a great pot of soup.

“It's all about the ingredients,” he says. “If you get the ingredients right, everything else takes care of itself.”

That philosophy guides every lyric he writes. Rather than filling songs with unnecessary words, he searches for the phrase that says the most with the least. He enjoys the challenge of telling an entire story in three or four minutes, knowing that every line has to earn its place.

Over the years, Keith's lyrics have become one of the defining elements of SiennaBlu's music. Whether writing about love, loss, redemption, small-town memories, or the complicated moments that shape our lives, he looks for the emotional truth hidden inside each song.

He has never measured success by awards or recognition.

For Keith, success is knowing that someone heard one of his songs and felt understood.

If a lyric makes someone smile, remember someone they love, see the world a little differently, or simply makes a difficult day a little easier, then the song has accomplished exactly what it was meant to do.

Ask Keith about his accomplishments, and he'll likely change the subject. Ask him what matters, and he'll tell you it's the songs, the people who listen to them, and the privilege of creating something that might stay with someone long after the music fades.

And if you ask him for his greatest endorsement, he'll probably grin and say,

“My mom thought I was pretty great.”

Long before SiennaBlu, Clendell Rundles was already living the life of a working musician.

Growing up in southern New Jersey during the golden age of funk and R&B, the self-taught bassist from a military family outside of Fort Dix developed a style that was impossible to ignore. His philosophy was simple: put the groove first and have fun! Every note landed squarely “on the one,” driving the music with authority, soul, and the kind of pocket that can't be taught.

His stage presence became legendary among the musicians who knew him. While many bass players quietly disappeared into the background, Clendell seemed to fuel the entire room. The smile, the energy, the dancing, the unmistakable head bobbing—it was all part of the performance. Once he locked into a groove, the rest of the band barely needed monitors….

They had Clendell.

When his head started bouncing in time, everyone else knew exactly where the beat lived.

“Just follow the bouncing ball,” became the running joke.

Those early years led to countless performances throughout the Northeast, including an appearance opening for Earth, Wind & Fire—an experience few young musicians ever forget.

Fate has a funny way of bringing old friends back together.

Back in the 1970s, Clendell's younger brother fronted one of the local bands that regularly crossed paths with another neighborhood group whose drummer happened to be a young Jamie. Neither of them could have imagined that decades later, nearly 1,600 miles away in Houston, Texas, they'd find themselves making music together.

In 2005, Clendell joined the newly formed SiennaBlu alongside vocalist and lyricist Keith Luke while simultaneously playing in an R&B project with Jamie. One evening after rehearsal, Clendell approached James with an unexpected question.

“We need a drummer.”

Jamie hesitated. He had spent years playing funk, R&B, and blues—not modern rock.

Clendell simply smiled.

“Come try it.”

That single invitation changed everything. Jamie joined the band, and almost overnight SiennaBlu's sound began to evolve. Instead of becoming just another rock band, the music took on unmistakable elements of funk, soul, blues, jazz, and progressive arrangements. The chemistry between Clendell's deep pocket, James's groove-oriented drumming, Corey's adventurous guitar writing, and Keith's storytelling became the heartbeat of the band.

During the next seven years, SiennaBlu would write, perform, and record a catalog of more than fifty original songs while appearing throughout the Houston music scene, including performances at Fitzgerald's, The Meridian, the Verizon Wireless Theatre, multiple appearances on Fox 26 Morning Show, and a second-place finish in Houston's Bodog Battle of the Bands.

Many of SiennaBlu's most adventurous musical moments began with Clendell. Working closely with Corey and Jamie, he helped create some of the band's richest funk, jazz, and rhythm-driven passages—music that remains every bit as fresh today as when it was first recorded. Those performances will finally receive the attention they deserve- remixed and mastered as part of The SiennaBlu Project, with the upcoming release of the upcoming “Let Go” album.

To understand SiennaBlu is to understand the importance of its rhythm section.

Clendell didn't simply play bass.

He worked to shape the direction of the music.

Today, Clendell enjoys retirement in Bonita, California, where he operates a pretty cool special event dove release company outside San Diego. Though miles now separate him from his Texas bandmates, his unmistakable groove—and the joy he brought into every rehearsal and every stage—remains woven into the DNA of SiennaBlu.

He didn't just play the groove. He became the soul of SiennaBlu.

Perfection isn't an accident. It's repetition until the impossible sounds effortless.

Jordan Ronsonette builds electric sonic landscapes. Every note has purpose. Every rhythm serves the story. Every layer is deliberate. Whether he's creating crushing rhythm guitars, soaring melodic leads, or subtle atmospheric textures, Jordan approaches music like a high-voltage architect rather than simply a performer.

Proudly born and raised in Galena Park, Texas, music has always surrounded him. With a father and older brother who were both drummers, rhythm became part of his DNA long before he ever picked up a guitar. At six years old, after hearing Kirk Hammett's unforgettable lead guitar work on a Metallica record, he became captivated by the instrument and never looked back.

By age ten, Jordan was already turning heads, performing Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan live on Houston radio after station DJs refused to believe someone so young could play at that level. Just a few years later, he placed third in a Houston-wide guitar competition hosted by The Music Emporium, confirming what everyone around him already suspected—that music would define his life.

By the time most players had settled on one instrument, Jordan was comfortably moving between guitar, bass, and drums, developing a complete understanding of how songs are constructed from the inside out. His urban influences added another dimension to his playing, blending hard rock, groove, melody, and rhythm into a style that's uniquely his own. Those perspectives would later become one of his greatest strengths.

Throughout the '90s, Jordan honed his craft in Houston's live music scene with bands including Sibling Rivalry and Just Add Dirt, performing throughout the city, writing original music, recording independent releases, and building the stage experience that would prepare him for the years ahead.

Then came a very different chapter...

In 2001, Jordan enlisted in the U.S. Navy Seabees as a Construction Electrician, serving five years that included deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Coming home, he then endured the forces of nature- survivThe experience forged the discipline, precision, teamwork, and quiet confidence that would later define both his career and his musicianship.

Jordan joined SiennaBlu when Corey left Houston to attend Full Sail University. Rather than simply replacing a guitarist, he helped propel the band into its next creative chapter. Working alongside Jamie, Keith, and Clendell, Jordan quickly became a driving creative force during one of SiennaBlu's most productive years. He mastered the existing catalog, stepped seamlessly into the role of lead guitarist, and played countless live shows while helping shape much of the band's evolving sound.

His impact reached far beyond the stage. Jordan became deeply involved in developing new material, contributing arrangements, recording guitars, bass, and drums whenever needed, and helping transform rough ideas into finished songs. Long before remote collaboration became commonplace, he worked closely with Corey in Orlando as the band's music continued to evolve across state lines.

Many of the songs fans hear today bear Jordan's fingerprints—not only through his guitar work, but through the countless creative decisions that helped define the unmistakable sound of SiennaBlu.

His precision became legendary inside the band. Jamie often joked that Jordan could record the same guitar part three separate times, stack the performances together, and they'd sound as though they had been played on a 24-string guitar by a guitarist with 30 fingers.

It wasn't luck.

It was relentless discipline.

Jordan's style combines modern hard rock with Southern grit, cinematic textures, and melodic instincts that allow heavy music to breathe. Massive rhythm guitars, layered harmonies, tasteful solos, and meticulous attention to detail became trademarks of his recordings.

Like every member of SiennaBlu, originality has always been non-negotiable. Every riff, progression, arrangement, and lyric begins with a blank page. No borrowed formulas. No shortcuts. Just the pursuit of songs that sound unmistakably like SiennaBlu.

“Can Do!”

Following his years with SiennaBlu, Jordan reunited with longtime friend Joey Gaskill in Recovery Room, recording an EP at Rock Army Records in Austin and earning the opportunity to open for King's X during showcase performances in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Today, Jordan works as an industrial electrician at Houston's Toyota Center, balancing a demanding career with family life as a devoted husband and father of two while continuing to write, record, and create whenever inspiration strikes.

His contributions to SiennaBlu extend well beyond the notes he played. Four of his original compositions appear on the upcoming album The Box, a testament to his growth not only as a guitarist, but as a songwriter, arranger, and creative partner whose fingerprints can be found throughout the band's music.

Whether standing beneath the stage lights or quietly crafting songs one track at a time in the studio, Jordan has never chased recognition. He's chased the perfect take, the perfect tone, and the perfect song.

The applause eventually fades.

Great music never does.

Putting the pieces together: Some people spend a lifetime mastering a single craft. This guy has spent his life connecting them.

Musician, photographer, adman, producer, builder, artist, entrepreneur—each has become another expression of the same creative instinct that has guided him since childhood: Imagine something that doesn't yet exist, then build it.

Growing up in southern New Jersey, Jamie entered the construction trades at just twelve years old, learning that true craftsmanship isn't measured by speed, but by precision, patience, and pride in the finished product. Those early lessons became the foundation for everything that followed.

Music arrived early.

His Mom bought him a toy drum kit at the age of five, and his older sister taught him the basics of piano, planting the first seeds of musicianship before he ever picked up a pair of big boy drumsticks. In elementary school he played clarinet, but by junior high it became obvious that woodwinds weren't his calling. After struggling through another rehearsal, the band director moved him to the percussion section.

“I remember my band teacher stopping the rehearsal and saying “Miller- what the hell are you doing?”, I walked home from school that day singing a tune I made out of the admonishment”, he recalled.

Jamie has often joked that it was the best “failure” of his life.

The moment he sat behind a drum kit, everything clicked.

Throughout high school in southern New Jersey, he became immersed in the region's thriving funk and R&B scene, often finding himself as the only white boy in bands whose grooves, musicianship, and stage presence would shape his musical instincts forever. Those years taught him that great music has nothing to do with labels or genres—it lives in feel, pocket, dynamics, and listening to the musicians around you.

The influence of those formative years can still be heard throughout SiennaBlu's music, where rock comfortably shares space with blues, funk, jazz, soul, and country.

“Life is what happens when you have other plans” -John Lennon

Like many young musicians, life eventually pulled him in another direction. Jamie stepped away from performing for nearly a decade while building a career in the high-fashion clothing industry. It was there that another lifelong passion began to emerge. Working with apparel, catalogs, and marketing introduced him to commercial photography—a craft that would eventually grow into In Focus Houston and become one of the defining careers of his life. Then the kids came along and well, you know.

Photography became one of his greatest passions. What began with a camera eventually grew into In Focus of Houston, a commercial photography business that has spent more than three decades creatingtens of thousands of award-winning portraits and imagery for manufacturers, inventors, artists, and businesses throughout Texas and beyond.

Known for meticulous lighting, technical precision, and an uncompromising eye for detail, he built a reputation for producing photographs that don't simply showcase products—they tell their story.

Music, however, was never far behind.

A drummer from an early age, Jamie developed a style influenced as much by feel as technique. Blues, rock, funk, jazz, country, and progressive music all found their way into his playing, creating an approach that has always placed the song above the spotlight.

When he returned behind the kit, he brought with him something more valuable than technique alone: years of experience in business, design, visual storytelling, and craftsmanship. Those influences would later shape not only his playing, but the creative philosophy behind SiennaBlu itself.That philosophy eventually became one of the foundations of SiennaBlu.

As drummer, producer, arranger, and creative director, he became the person who connected the pieces. He helped shape the band's identity, built the studio where ideas became recordings, and worked alongside every member to transform inspiration into finished music. Perhaps his greatest contribution, however, was mediating the kerfuffles between bandmates.

From the very beginning, he encouraged his son Corey, introducing him to opportunities that included studying under Marzi Montazeri, attending Berklee Guitar Sessions, and pursuing Recording Arts at Full Sail University. Watching Corey mature into a composer, producer, and guitarist has become one of the most rewarding chapters of Jamie's own creative journey.

Over the years, SiennaBlu quietly evolved into something much larger than a local rock band. Together with Corey, lyricist Keith, Clendell and a close circle of talented collaborators, James helped create a body of work that refused to live inside a single genre. Rock, country, blues, funk, jazz, progressive arrangements, cinematic orchestration, and deeply personal songwriting all became part of the band's musical identity.

Outside the studio, Jamie has never stopped creating. Fine art photography and collage, furniture design, branding, website development, recording technology, studio acoustics, construction, and business development have all become outlets for the same restless curiosity that has driven him throughout his life. Friends know him as the person who can repair almost anything, design almost anything, and somehow locate the exact part needed from a workshop drawer that hasn't been opened in twenty years.

To him, there has never been much difference between building a home, lighting a product photograph, designing a piece of furniture, or producing a song. Every project begins with a vision, demands craftsmanship, and deserves to be done well.

Today, Miller continues to serve as the creative director of The SiennaBlu Project, helping preserve not only the music, but also the friendships, shared experiences, and creative spirit that gave those songs their life.

He has never measured success by fame. Instead, he measures it by the quality of the work, the people beside him, and the satisfaction of seeing an idea brought to life with honesty, excellence, and purpose.