Artist: Buddy Miller
Record Review from web archive March 11, 2009
Buddy & Julie Miller
[Editor's note: The following review appears in No Depression #77, the second in a series of "bookazines" edited by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock and published by University of Texas Press. The bookazine can be ordered here.] When news began trickling out that the next Buddy Miller album — the first since 2004′s widely acclaimed [...]
Column from web archive January 22, 2009
What else is new in ’09
Nine (Musical) Things That Will Almost Certainly Not Disappoint You In 2009: Besides the whole Obama-is-President thing, it turns out there’s a lot to look forward to this year, like a host of new releases. What follows is a very subjective list of potential highlights, but please bear in mind: Many of release dates are [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Buddy Miller – A disquisition on the centrality of love and faith in the music of Buddy Miller and the several other reasons he is artist of the decade. And stuff.
Where to begin, this ending? With the thing that has always mattered most: The music. In the spring of 1998, the fourteenth edition of this magazine proclaimed Alejandro Escovedo to be Artist Of The Decade. It was a puckish thing to have done, set off by the live More Miles Than Money album, which reprised [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Emmylou Harris / Patty Griffin / Shawn Colvin / Buddy Miller – Pabst Theater (Milwaukee, WI)
The aw-shucks modesty of this show’s title — “Three Girls And Their Buddy” — carried over into the coziness of the setup: four comfortably utilitarian chairs arrayed in a broad semicircle across the stage. When Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Buddy Miller came out to occupy those chairs, they had the relaxed, collective [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Buddy Miller – Well I hate to see your sun sinking down and the path you take while you’re losing ground
“Maybe the music would have won the war.” – In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason Buddy Miller can feel the migraine coming on, and he keeps apologizing for it. “I’m not a very good interview subject normally, but I’m even worse with this headache,” he says more than once. He is worried about it throughout our [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Buddy Miller / Daniel Lanois / Emmylou Harris – Sundance Music Cafe (Park City, UT)
With the film soundtrack compilation phenomenon still in full effect, songwriters and musicians are often drawn into the annual Sundance Film Festival, vying to get on the radar of the independent film world. Musical showcases and private-party performances abound, with Sundance 2003 drawing everyone from Low to Slash, Blackalicious to Sigur Ros. On a sunny [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Buddy Miller – Midnight And Lonesome
For all the kudos and award nominations that the Buddy & Julie Miller album of 2001 has notched to date, Mr. Miller remains, curiously, a restless artist. So much so that on his fourth solo record, he genre-skips with enough perverse glee as to suggest he’d rather torch his rep as an alt-country statesman than [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Buddy & Julie Miller – Self-Titled
Frame of reference is the conundrum of alternative country, this loose grouping of artists simultaneously celebrated as radically ahead of the times and dismissed as studied anachronism. That issue really hit home for me with the first album billed equally to Buddy & Julie Miller. By “hit home,” I mean literally, for it was plain [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Buddy Miller – Hearts on fire
Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. – St. Augustine How many times have you read a record review with the word “longing” in it? “The longing in her voice was palpable.” “Few write with such longing.” “On this wrenching ode to longing and loss, blah, blah, blah.” The word is [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Buddy & Julie Miller / Cry Cry Cry – Theatre Cedar Rapids (Cedar Rapids, IA)
A crowd of just over 500 braved the bracing cold to pack the lavishly restored Theatre Cedar Rapids, a two-tiered, turn-of-the-century wedding cake of a room newly available to concert performances. Unfortunately, the steep pitch of the aisles dictates a theater policy of not seating people once the house lights have dimmed, so a handful [...]
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