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Cedar Dream Songs

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This album is full of music that gets inside you. In my opinion, this is Bill Millers best CD. This is not just flute music. The mix on this CD just works, almost putting you in a trance. I do not suggest you listen to this while driving!
- playsaflute -

This CD is yet another side of an extremely talented musician, artist, poet. His ability to touch your soul with his music is second to none. I have had the pleasure of listening to his music since the 1970's, he is always improving and his music is never predictable. The sound quality of this CD is exceptional. Buying any of Bill's CD's will be a worthwhile investment for your music collection.

My favorite Native American flutes are cedar- especially Spanish Cedar. Pick up a cedar flute and feel how the wood feels in your hands. Blow on it and feel the cedar enter your nose, your lungs. Look at the flute and realize what Bill does with the pentatonic scale. Such simplicity, such eloquence, such genius.

I used to play a lot of his songs when I volunteered as a DJ at a tribal radio station. I liked to be in the studio singing with him, thinking of his words, his music, going out over the airwaves.

Bill distills experience and songs to their essence and shares his gift with us in the form of incredibly beautiful and soulful music. I am very grateful for that.

And really, pick up a flute and play it. There is no wrong note. There is playfulness and opening up to the music you have within you. Listening to this album is an excellent guide to what open heartedness and mastery sound like.

With the inclusion of Bill Millers artwork on the cover and inside - this made for a nice surprise when I got this - it is instrumental and not something I would normally listen too, however it is far from being all the same sound and in its variety displays the talents and gifts Bill Miller has been given.

Well worth it if you want an introduction to Bill Miller or are a fan.

Back to his roots, Miller has done an excellent job of putting together several fine pieces of wonderful songs. A great work that you will thoroughly enjoy.

Cleanses ones soul.....
I recommend that one listens
and after you do.........you will
be reborn. I recommend it.

I fell in love with Bill Miller with such albums as The Art of Survival and Reservation Road. The songs in these albums were unique and were colored with Bill Miller's Indian heritage. One of them has a really wonderful Indian flute instrumental, Wind Spirit. Each time, I looked forwarded to new releases from Bill. Then, one day it seemed that he felt guilty that he was denying his 'traditional' Indian heritage. From then on his albums, like this one, sounded like every other Native Indian recording. Sigh!!! The later albums are so ho hum. Bill, please go back to songs like Reservation Road, Ordinary Man and Tumbleweed. These songs and others on the other two albums I mentioned above, were drawn from your Native Indian heritage and are so far above anything you are producing these days.