Buddy & Julie Miller

Buddy – Don’t Forget To Breathe (2024) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:35:04 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Rap
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:43:16 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Folk
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Buddy & Julie Miller – In The Throes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:16 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC

Since their self-titled debut together in 2001, the Millers—Buddy, a supreme guitar texturalist and wise singer/songwriter Julie—have made three honest, unpretentious Americana albums as a couple. (Both also have solo careers.) Their 40-year marriage has not only survived but it’s been apparent since their definitive cover of Richard Thompson’s “Keep Your Distance” on their first album that somehow these two musical pros spark each other’s best creative impulses. Julie writes the songs and Buddy devises the settings. They sing together and alone. Music is clearly at the core of their relationship. It’s a point made abundantly clear in the aptly titled duet, “I Love You,” which also happens to be In the Throes’ most engaging melody with Julie’s words at their nimble best: “I’d go to any extent/ Call up the president/ To erect a monument/ I love you/ Nothing can make it untrue/ Nothing can make it undo/ I’d take a bullet for you/ I love you.” While both are acceptable singers on their own, together the vocal blend makes for a transcending force. Their duet singing, with Emmylou Harris added as a third voice, rises to an even higher level in the sweet and sad eulogy, “The Last Bridge You Will Cross,” which Julie wrote upon hearing that Congressman John Lewis had died. The loud rocked-up title track features Julie’s now raspy voice alone as the regretful lover admitting faults, on the edge of self-loathing: “I’d be independent if I could/ I can’t do anything I should/ I’m just a little bitty baby now/ I oughta grow up, but I don’t know how.” Their voices together add urgency to the raucous, “The Painkillers Ain’t Working”—”I’ve been biting this bullet so long I’m gonna break my teeth/ Feels like the bed I’m on has fire underneath.” Bob Dylan had a hand in writing lyrics for an early version of the solemn “Don’t Make Her Cry,” which Julie eventually set to music and Buddy sings with passion. Recorded in their home studio with Buddy as producer/engineer, the voices—not surprisingly—are particularly well-recorded. Musical guests include Austin guitarist Gurf Morlix, Alison Krauss collaborator Viktor Krauss on bass, and bluegrass fiddler Stuart Duncan. The Millers are a formidable musical duo who effortlessly share the spotlight while pursuing their passion together. – Robert Baird

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Buddy & Julie Miller – In The Throes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:43:16 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Blues, Country, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Buddy & Julie Miller – Breakdown On 20th Ave. South (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:31 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Country, Folk, Americana
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records

Mr & Mrs Miller might have been married since 1981, but believe it or not, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South is only their fourth album together, and the first in a span of ten years since the excellent Written in Chalk was released. That in itself is a shame – up to this point, the labors of love between the two alternative country stars have been brilliantly classical; beautiful, uncompromising and upfront. To be frank, a yearly dose would do no one harm. Buddy and Julie Miller are thick as thieves, which is nothing new really, but the honesty in their relationship is overwhelming. They sing about broken hearts, love lost to time, about “the old days”, sickness, death and hope. And above all, their voices: there is magic in the way their voices meld together, from Julie’s elf-like, Rickie Lee Jones warble, to her husband’s ever-gritty rasp. Porcelain and oak, yin and yang with the power to silence entire crowds. Then there’s the instrumentation itself: a fine wine for any Americana connoisseur. Buddy might be a freak guitarist, venerated by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams, but he also knows when – and how – to hold back. “What Julie and I create together satisfies me like nothing else in the world, and I should have given more time to that” he says. Julie’s health problems (Fibromyalgia, a form of severe joint and muscle pain) and the ever-looming fear of losing a loved one brought him down to earth, as she explains: “I took too much time to express my feelings. It was as if I was waiting for my turn. I know he feels guilty about it. I was sick and depressed which made everything complicated. Once he knew how I was feeling, he became incredibly kind and really focused to help me create what I wanted.” Recorded in the bedroom above their home studio in Nashville, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South (the address of the place itself) is that gut-wrenching, hold-on-to-your-hats kind of moment. Appalachian folk intertwined with sepia-tone honky tonk, melancholy rock’n’roll and bare-bones country music. Breakdown, thy name is candour and power. – Marc Zisman
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