Buddy And Julie Miller-Written In Chalk-(Advance)-2009-RVP

| Artist : Buddy And Julie Miller |

| Album : Written In Chalk |

| Bitrate : VBR kbps |

| Label : New West |

| Year : 2009 |

| Genre : Country |

| Rip date : Feb-02-2009 |

| Store date : Mar-03-2009 |

| Size : 62,6 MB |

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|Track Listing: |

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| 01 - Ellis County 03:51 |

| 02 - Gasoline And Matches 03:14 |

| 03 - Don't Say Goodbye feat. Patty Griffin 05:11 |

| 04 - What You Gonna Do Leroy feat. Robert 03:45 |

| Plant |

| 05 - A Long, Long Time 04:14 |

| 06 - One Part, Two Part feat. Regina McCrary 03:44 |

| 07 - Chalk feat. Patty Griffin 03:41 |

| 08 - Everytime We Say Goodbye 04:35 |

| 09 - Hush, Sorrow feat. Regina McCrary 04:02 |

| 10 - Smooth 06:17 |

| 11 - June 04:16 |

| 12 - The Selfishness Of Man feat. Emmylou 04:20 |

| Harris |

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| 51:10 min |

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| Pop stardom has, for many years, attuned listeners to the arrival of |

| shining new faces filled with vital new ideas, to which attention must |

| be paid. Instantly. Briefly, for the most part. |

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| It says here that there is another path, at least if what one cares |

| about is music, and not celebrity. The steady lines in Buddy Millers |

| face, the passions which abide within his voice, and the effortless |

| inflection of his guitar all matched against words given shape by and |

| with his wife, Julie, her writing and singing voice twining against his |

| they speak, as well, to the arrival of genius. Just not clothed in the |

| baggage of youth. |

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| It works like this: Malcolm Gladwell (the brilliant and best-selling |

| synthesist of the varied research which seeks to explain how our brains |

| work) recently summarized the research of a University of Chicago |

| economist named David Galenson, who has been studying the age at which |

| genius presents itself to the world. Two paradigms emerge. The |

| precocious Pablo Picasso arrived as daunting and fertile talent in his |

| early 20s, while the meticulous Paul Cézanne did not have an exhibition |

| of his paintings until he was 57. Gladwell has also been advancing the |

| thesis that it takes 10,000 hours to acquire mastery of any given skill. |

| This explains the slow, steady career arc of Buddy and Julie Miller. |

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| Buddy will be 56 when Written in Chalk hits stores, though his work has |

| been on regular exhibit since his wife, Julie (who is somewhat younger), |

| began recording in 1990, and more so since he finally started making his |

| own records in 1995. If his genius has not yet been widely recognized, |

| no matter; the other musicians, they know. (There was a reason the final |

| print edition of No Depression magazine proclaimed him to be artist of |

| the decade, and it was not simply the mercurial humor of the magazines |

| two editors. It was the music.) |

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| He has been a singer, and the successful writer and co-writer of songs |

| other people sang, many of them country stars, including the Dixie |

| Chicks, Lee Ann Womack, and Brooks & Dunn. He has been a multi- |

| instrumentalist and harmony singer for a succession of acclaimed |

| performers, beginning with Julie, and then in prompt succession Emmylou |

| Harris, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams. And, most recently, Alison Krauss |

| and Robert Plant. And he has produced records in the studio he built in |

| their home released separately under his name and Julies, and bearing |

| their names together (as with Written in Chalk). That same living space |

| has produced acclaimed albums by Solomon Burke, Allison Moorer, and |

| Jimmie Dale Gilmore. |

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| For some years it was Julie who stood center stage, first back in |

| Austin, Texas, where they met (she didnt want the band to hire him), |

| then in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and, finally, Nashville, |

| where they settled in 1993, a short drive from Music Row. Along the way |

| the Millers became close friends and supporters of Shawn Colvin, Jim |

| Lauderdale, Peter Case and Victoria Williams, played in bands with |

| guitarists Larry Campbell and Gurf Morlix, and drummer Don Heffington. |

| Worked on their art, slowly, surely. Perhaps uncertainly, but working, |

| always. Beginning in 1990 Julie released four albums within the |

| Christian market, and then two on the now shuttered roots label |

| HighTone. Her last one, Broken Things, came out in 1999. Buddy has so |

| far made five proper lone players under his own name, though Julies |

| singing and writing voice is ever-present throughout. And then, at last, |

| in 2001, they finally, formally released an album under both names. |

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| Eight years later, one of the most respected creative teams in Nashville |

| and beyond has returned with a new suite of songs. |

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| All things being equal, its a remarkable accomplishment. Both the album, |

| and its making. Julie has had a tough time of it. Some years back she |

| was diagnosed with fibromylgia (which is characterized by muscular pain, |

| fatigue, and sleep deprivation), and so has had to cope with the ravages |

| of a chronic illness. Five years ago her brother, Jeff Griffin, was |

| struck by lightning while mowing their parents yard. She is a woman who |

| feels deeply, and there is a careful emotional raggedness to many of the |

| songs she unveils here. (And an unexpected helping of humor and joy, and |

| abiding faith, too.) And Buddy hes just been busy. In the two weeks he |

| had set aside to finish this album last spring originally simply to have |

| been another Buddy Miller album he was also trying to learn several |

| dozens of songs he would be playing on tour with Robert Plant and Alison |

| Krauss. And to remember how to play the steel guitar hed agreed to bring |

| along for that gig. In between lining up production gigs, and the like. |

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| It didnt get done. Or, rather, Written in Chalk didnt get finished |

| during that particular two-week slot, though he tried. But instead of |

| simply meeting a deadline and turning in what he had finished, Buddy set |

| the album aside and went back onto the road. This left time and room for |

| a duet with Robert Plant (which they played publicly for the first time |

| as part of the Americana Music Associations 2008 Honors & Awards last |

| September), and the additional gestation time seems to have emboldened |

| Julie to become a full partner in the process. (Indeed, Buddy has only |

| one co-write, and the balance of the album, save his well-chosen covers, |

| comes from Julies pen.) |

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| Buddy was born near Dayton, Ohio, to an Air Force family, and mostly |

| raised in Princeton, New Jersey. Julie Griffin was born and raised in |

| Waxahachie, Texas. They met, in 1975, in Austin, when he auditioned for |

| a band she was in. She didnt take to him right off, but theyve been |

| married a long time. Only a couple of such confidence and competence |

| could chance the emotional honesty of Written in Chalk. Only musicians |

| of such renown could round up collaborators like Larry Campbell (who has |

| played with Dylan, Levon Helm, and one or two others), keyboard player |

| John Deaderick (Dixie Chicks, Mindy Smith), drummer Brady Blades |

| (Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle), and singers like Patty Griffin, Emmylou |

| Harris, and that guy who used to be in Led Zeppelin. |

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| But, in the end, only Buddy and Julie Miller could make a record this |

| good.