Buddy Miller Slates New Self-Titled Solo Album For September

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Buddy Miller is releasing his new 12-track, self-titled album on Sept. 11 via New West Records.

The self-produced project is Miller’s first solo album in 15 years, and features appearances by Emmylou Harris, The War & Treaty, Lee Ann Womack, Shawn Colvin, Ashley Monroe, Elizabeth Cook, Jim Lauderdale, Dan Penn and Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams.

When compiling the songs for the new collection, Miller started with 50-odd possibilities before winnowing it down to include an early Temptations hit, a Jesse Winchester track,“Till the Wheels Come Off,” which Ashley Monroe, Elizabeth Cook, Angaleena Presley and Meg McRee wrote about Buddy and his wife Julie, and more.

“The intention was to make a country soul record,” Miller says, “but then I kept running into songs Julie had written that I wanted to put in.”

“Don’t Look Back” features Dan Penn, the legendary co-writer of “The Dark End of the Street,” “I’m Your Puppet,” “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” and countless other classics.

“I met Dan around 1994 when he came over to look at a Studer 24-track tape machine I’d listed in the PennySaver,” says Miller. “He passed on the Studer, but I gained a hero as a friend. He sang on my first record and I played a few sessions at his studio. His songs have been recorded by Aretha, Otis, Janis, Linda Ronstadt, and so many more — and his singing is as soulful as ever.”

Buddy Miller follows In the Throes, Miller’s 2023 collaboration with his wife Julie. The core band on the new album includes Fred Eltringham (drums, percussion), Viktor Krauss (bass), Tim Lauer (keyboards), and Steve Fishell (pedal steel), with frequent appearances from The McCrary Sisters.

Miller is a Grammy winner who has been named “Instrumentalist of the Year” multiple times by the Americana Music Association, and is also a highly sought-after and respected producer and guitarist who has worked with Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, John Fogerty, Solomon Burke, Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Frank Black of the Pixies, Steve Earle, and many more.

Buddy Miller Track List: 
1. “As Long as I Have You”
2. “You Never Really Get Over It” (with Shawn Colvin)
3. “Strange Desire” (with Jim Lauderdale)
4. “Ruby Hang On” (with Regina McCrary)
5. “Don’t Look Back” (with Dan Penn)
6. “Not Enough Time to Change”  
7. “Losers’ Celebration”
8. “Lay Down the Burden of Your Heart” (with The War & Treaty)
9. “Stop Me” (with Lee Ann Womack)
10. “Till the Wheels Come Off” (with Ashley Monroe and Elizabeth Cook) 
11. “The Inner Sanctum of God” (with Emmylou Harris and Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams)
12. “Masterpiece in the Sand”
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