Your Love and Other Lies

Buddy Miller

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hightone Records
• ASIN: B0000005R8
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,288 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest country americana music, February 18, 2000

By	Angela Griffin Gilmer (New Augusta, Indiana) - See all my reviews

Excellent recording. Liked the cut "Don't Listen to the Wind" composed by Julie Miller. Straight to the heart lyric and haunting melody. Every selection a winner. I wish country music on the radio sounded like this! I'm looking forward to catching one of their concerts this spring in Lexington, KY. What a great combination-Buddy and Julie Miller's music,the beautiful Lexington countryside and Kentucky Bourbon!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flawlessly executed, superlative music from a true artist..., March 1, 2002

By	Mark J. Koenig (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YeeeeeHaaaaaaaw!!, June 9, 2001

By	"rraabfaber" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews

YeeeeeHaaaaaaaw folks! We got us a kuntree rekerd! I say that in all sincerity and awe of this beautiful work. I'd been aware of Buddy for a few years, due to his work as a session man and producer on other people's work. After reading an article about him and wife Julie in No Depression (#23 Sept Oct 1999), I felt compelled to pick up a CD. There is not a weak song in the bunch. The production is dead-on. It is clean, sparse, not over done. Buddy's vocals make me think of the phrase "High-lonesome," in most songs, but there is also that cigarette/whiskey edge that feels like he's been down a few of the rougher roads of life. The lyrics range from get-down good-time fun "A Girl Like You" or "Hole in My Head" to haunting tear-jerkers "Watching Amy Dance", Don't Listen To The Wind", "Through The Eyes of a Broken Heart" and the Julie Miller penned "Don't Listen to the Wind" There is a 1960's country feel to a lot of these tunes. "I'm Pretending" has a very Buck Owens feel to it. All in all, the CD leaves you feeling as though you are listening to an exceptional house band in a Tennesee roadhouse. Tammy Rogers Fiddle is exceptional. Gurf Morlix' bass, Donald Lindley's drums and Al Perkin's steel guitar steel guitar stand out as prime examples of how these instruments should be played. All the musicians on this record just shine. As for a previous reviewer's comment that Buddy's music will never be big on radio, I can only say that it is merely a reflection of the industry's need to market the 'pretty people'. Buddy may not be pretty lookin', but his music is sure pretty sounding. If you are sick of the slick, over-produced pop music with a twang that passes for country these days, do yourself a favor -- buy this CD. If you're a fan of real country music, you won't be sorry.