Your Love & Other Lies
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