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 | Title : Midnight and Lonesome
Author : Miller, Buddy
Release Date : 20021015
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Buddy Miller, whose self-titled album with wife Julie won Album of the Year honors at the inaugural Americana Awards show in 2002, has been quietly changing Nashville with his gutbucket work as a songwriter, vocalist, sideman, and producer. His albums have served as an anchoring consciousness for country's roots, while his raw, twangy songs, filled with palpable heartache, have made their way into mainstream fare by the likes of the Dixie Chicks and Lee Ann Womack. Midnight and Lonesome may be his widest-ranging work (packing stunning original songs between covers of the Everly Brothers, Jesse Winchester, and Percy Mayfield), and also his best. With Emmylou Harris on board for a chilling rendition of Winchester's 'A Showman's Life,' and Womack dueting on Julie's achingly beautiful 'I Can't Get over You,' Miller proves himself the most pained and soulful honky-tonker since Gram Parsons. Positively killer.
Buyer Reviews :
Miller's fourth solo album for Hightone features the same canny mix of originals and covers as his previous three, along with the harmonies and songwriting of his wife, Julie. But as fine as their new songs are, the tracks that really give away the duo's roots are the covers. This time out, the Miller's cover The Everly Brothers, Percy Mayfield and Jesse Winchester. The effortlessness with which the Millers' combine country, folk, blues and rock is as impressive as ever.
The Millers recast The Everlys' 'The Price of Love' with swampy reverb-growling guitar and husband and wife harmonies more pointed than the originals. Percy Mayfield's 1950 R&B classic, 'Please Send Me Someone to Love' is a perfect match for Miller's soulful delivery and a beautifully balanced organ and acoustic-guitar arrangement. Similarly, Miller draws deeply on the emotional of Jesse Winchester's pained first-person examination of life on the road, 'A Showman's Life.' The latter, an older album cut, shows off not only Buddy Miller's ability to cover a song, but his golden ears for picking material.
The eight new songs, written mostly by Buddy & Julie (or Julie solo), range from twangy details of love's reforming effects ('Wild Card'), to devastating, clinging memories of love lost ('I Can't Get Over You,' featuring a duet vocal from Lee Ann Womack). 'Midnight and Lonesome' distills the Millers' mountain influences, while the same fiddle-driven sound finds happier times on 'Little Bitty Kiss.' Fats Kaplin's accordion creates the Cajun-style on 'Oh Fait Pitie D'amour.'
While the breadth of musical ground the Millers cover follows a map similar to their previous outings, the result retains the same high level of vitality and freshness. Their's is a rich strike, capped in this chapter by Julie Miller's of-the-moment ode to the rescued miners of 'Quecreek.' It's difficult to pick any one of the Millers' albums as 'best,' but this one is certainly representative of their unique artistry, and another fine chapter in their songbook.
4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings.
(by RedTunicTroll)
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