Buddy & Julie Miller Announce New Album ‘In The Throes’

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Buddy & Julie Miller will release In The Throes on September 22 via New West Records. The 12-song set was produced by Buddy Miller and features Emmylou Harris, Regina McCrary, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Gurf Morlix, and Matt Slocum of Sixpence None the Richer. In The Throes follows their 2019 acclaimed Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, which was Buddy & Julie Miller’s first album in a decade.

In the Throes is a deeply soulful collision of dusty country, mournful gospel, cosmic blues, and ecstatic R&B. It sounds lively and diverse, eccentric and slightly askew, thorny with desire and blame. The fearless collection came to life during an intensely creative period for Julie. She says, “I got deep into songwriting mode, and they just kept coming along.” Buddy watched with wonder and admiration as his wife filled up notebooks with lyrics and recorded voice memos with melodies. By his count she ended up with more than one hundred songs—some of them fully written, others simply fragments. She wrote every song on the album with the exception of “Don’t Make Her Cry,” which is a rare co-write between Bob Dylan, Regina McCrary, and Julie. McCrary started the song several years ago, then met with Dylan, who wrote, and rewrote more lyrics. When it came time to write the music, Bob said to Regina “give it to Buddy Miller.” Buddy then passed it to Julie, who added more lyrics, moved others around, and set it to music. Featuring a sympathetic lead vocal from Buddy, “Don’t Make Her Cry” sits naturally on the album: a soft-spoken ode to perseverance and protection.

After over forty years of marriage, Buddy & Julie Miller have recorded only four albums as a duo, but they are always creating, always making art together. They’ve pushed hard at the boundaries of Americana music, devising their own idiosyncratic and imaginative equation of styles and genres. “Music is such a wonderful thing to have in a relationship,” Buddy says. “That’s how we met back in Austin in the mid 70s. We started playing together, and we’ve been playing together ever since. I love her writing and she tolerates my singing and playing. It’s a lot of give and take, but it’s such a joy.”

Buddy & Julie Miller In The Throes Track Listing:

  1. You’re My Thrill
  2. In The Throes
  3. Don’t Make Her Cry
  4. Niccolo
  5. I Love You
  6. The Last Bridge You Will Cross
  7. The Painkillers Ain’t Workin’
  8. Tattooed Tear
  9. I Been Around
  10. I’ll Never Live It Down
  11. We’re Leavin’
  12. Oh Shout

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