When music is satisfying enough, it is rarely necessary to come up with endless comparisons to other similar sounds. Indeed, it's often difficult. It is difficult because at a point it becomes irrelevant. Taming that inner comparison-making beast is the most rewarding way to listen to Shelley Miller's newest record, When It's All Gone, You Come Back, which is enjoyable enough to discourage all brands of musical pinpointing. The album has a fervor that reveals its creator's reverence for folk influences, a reverence used tenaciously with Miller's personality to unleash [...]
When It's All Gone You Come Back is the third release from Chicago based singer-songwriter Shelley Miller who also fronts a roots rock band The Bitter Optimists and holds down a job teaching Guitar and Songwriting at the Old Town School of Folk Music in the Windy City, a quick scan of the press release reveales the that Miller co-produced the album and it features guest appearances from Micah Walk, Joe Darnaby and Steve Dawson - who's current album has been on heavy rotation with me recently. Shelley's garnered [...]
When you are a guitar teacher like Shelley Miller , you have a pretty good idea about how to make each note count. The Chicago singer-songwriter has just released When It's All Gone, You Come Back , her third album as a recording artist. Miller is a folkie branching out to Americana and country with a voice that is made for intimate songs played on the front porch at sunset. She may sound delicate, but she is by no means a push over. Her lyrics are about love and hate - the characters in her [...]
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TGIS!** I love Saturdays! (**please note that this post was supposed to go up yesterday, but you know how it goes...Sunday Morning Fever??) It very well could be the best day of the week (most definitely) and that is that, there is no back talk from any of you. Ya here me...the best day. I find Saturday great as you get to sleep in and stay up late in the same day with little repercussions due to standard work schedules. I do apologize to those of [...]
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