Your Love and Other Lies

Your Love and Other Lies

ASIN: B0000005R9

Track Listings

1. You Wrecked up My Heart

2. Don't Listen to the Wind

3. That's How I Got to Memphis

4. I'm Pretending

5. Through the Eyes of a Broken Heart

6. I Don't Mean Maybe

7. Hold on My Love

8. Hole in My Head

9. Watching Amy Dance

10. I Can't Slow Down

11. My Love Will Follow You

12. You're Running Wild

13. Girl Like You

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Buddy Miller's debut solo album is stubbornly old-fashioned--full of twangy vocals, emphatic two-step beats, stripped-down arrangements, and unvarnished plain talk about romantic desire and disappointment. Unlike most honky-tonk revivalists, however, Miller turns the genre not into a downer but into an exuberant whoop of joy. Even on the broken-hearted songs, Miller sounds as if he's so revved-up he can barely sit still. He recorded most of the album in his own living room with harmony vocals by his wife Julie, Jim Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Dan Penn and picking by Williams's rhythm section and ex-Burrito Brother Al Perkins. --Geoffrey Himes

Tracks:

You Wrecked Up My Heart
Don't Listen To The Wind
That's How I Got To Memphis
I'm Pretending
Through The Eyes Of A Broken Heart
I Don't Mean Maybe
Hold On My Love
Hole In My Head
Watching Amy Dance
I Can't Slow Down
My Love Will Follow You
You're Running Wild
A Girl Like You

Amazon.com

Buddy Miller's debut solo album is stubbornly old-fashioned--full of twangy vocals, emphatic two-step beats, stripped-down arrangements, and unvarnished plain talk about romantic desire and disappointment. Unlike most honky-tonk revivalists, however, Miller turns the genre not into a downer but into an exuberant whoop of joy. Even on the broken-hearted songs, Miller sounds as if he's so revved-up he can barely sit still. He recorded most of the album in his own living room with harmony vocals by his wife Julie, Jim Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Dan Penn and picking by Williams's rhythm section and ex-Burrito Brother Al Perkins. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

real country music........2007-03-26

the goodwill would make a nice new home for your toby keith, vince gill, and garth brooks cds. you deserve something better. buddy miller comes quickly to mind. make room in your life for some true country genius. it's a good idea. it really is.

Very Very Cool!!!.......2006-07-24

Buddy Miller again!! Thank the heavens for some real talent these days. Some of the best music that you'll most likely never hear on any radio. Excellent!
"My Love Will follow You" is worth the price alone.

Buddy does it once again!.......2003-06-21

Just finished listening to this one for the first time. All I can say is "stop reading the reviews and go order it already". The sooner you have this one, the happier you will be.

Buddy, thank you for consistently putting out AWESOME music. This one is a keeper!

Flawlessly executed, superlative music from a true artist..........2002-03-01

This is Buddy Miller's debut 'solo' album, and even a casual listen (if you can manage that)reveals his immense talent. Miller co-wrote most of the songs on this CD, and receives backing from some stellar musicians including Emmylou Harris (whose band he has led for 7 years now), Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale, and Tammy Rogers, not to mention his wife Julie, who is a gifted songwriter in her own right. Julie wrote or co-wrote many of these songs as well. This is PURE, UNADULTERATED COUNTRY music with a bluesy edge that will knock your socks off. In addition, the recording quality is spectacular. Another of Buddy's many gifts - he produced and recorded not only this disc but his and Julie's subsequent ones, which I also highly recommend. Standout tracks for me me include "Don't Listen to the Wind", "Through the Eyes of a Broken Heart", "Hole in My Head", and "My Love Will Follow You", but there's not a bad cut on the CD.... If you like country music, or just great music period, you owe it to yourself to hear this recording. You will NOT be disappointed.

Solo debut filled with moving country/folk/rock.......2002-01-26

Miller's solo debut finds his roots-rich Americana already in full-flower. This self-produced, self-recorded album has an amazingly rich sound, not in small part due to Miller's expressive vocals and twangy guitar playing. He neatly combines the twang and swing of pre-Nashville Sound country with the personal, singer/songwriter approach pioneered by Waylon and Willie. Having played with outsiders whose songwriting flirted with mainstream success (Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale), Miller produces music that avoids Top-40 pop concession without relegating itself to "alternative." Instead, he and wife Julie pen moving songs that take in flavors of country, rock, folk and pop.

His backing band, including Gurf Morlix on bass, Donald Lindley on drums, and Al Perkins on steel guitar provide restrained support that provides subtle shape to the songs. Julie Miller provides terrific harmonies throughout. Their take of "Hole in My Head" (recorded by co-writer Jim Lauderdale three years later for his own "Whisper" LP) has a wonderfully bluesy edge, and their cover of "You're Running Wild" displays the sort of intertwined harmonies made famous by the Louvin Brothers. Tom T. Hall's "That's How I Got to Memphis" proves a perfect vehicle for Miller's soulful vocals - much as Otis Redding's "That's How Strong My Love Is" would on the follow-up LP.

Tracks:

Sonnet: When most I wink
If I could choose
The Primrose
A Dirge
The Devon Maid
Dawn and Evening
Where'er my bitter teardrops fall
E'en as a lovely flower
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Go not, happy day
Night lies on the silent highways
A Dead Violet
Cradle Song
Lean close thy cheek
Fair Daffodils
Adoration
So perverse
Tears, idle tears
The Violets Blue
Come to me in my dreams
My pent-up tears oppress my brain
Music, when soft voices die
Far, far from each other
Where is it that our soul doth go?

Tracks:

All things that we clasp
Love is a rose
Dear, when I look into thine eyes
Isobel
O that it were so!
Strew no more red roses
Where she lies asleep
Love went a-riding
Thy hand in mine
So early in the morning
Mantle of Blue
The Last Invocation
When you are old and gray
Into her keeping
What shall I your true love tell?
'Tis but a week
Day after Day
Speak to me, my love!
Dweller in my deathless dreams
Goldenhair
Journey's End

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