Comments on: Album Review: Buddy and Julie Miller – Written in Chalk

By: Awesome Song Alert: “Eliis County” - Buddy & Julie Miller | The Gobblers Knob

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:04 +0000

[...] also heart-tugging as they weave together just as effortlessly as the fiddle I mentioned earlier. It has been noted that the hubby-wife duo’s vocals are reminiscent of the makers of my favorite album of 2008, [...]

By: Robert Trigloff

Robert Trigloff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:25:50 +0000

The Julie Miller focused portions of the record are spectacular and the quality of the recording is high it really made my Vienna’s pop. Yet to say it is Julies best work is hardly worth disputing there is so much musical depth in her previous work (not to mention style difference) it is hard to compare those works with these rather light offerings. though it has tons of soul and I love Buddy’s tremendous ability to transfere some swing into anything.
It is not like the Julie that was. But she probably isnt that Julie anymore.good record compared to modern country stuff it’s probably brilliant but not Julies best.

By: Awesome Song Alert: “Eliis County” - Buddy & Julie Miller « The Gobblers Knob

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:56:27 +0000

By: Occasional Hope

Occasional Hope — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:48 +0000

I think I’m going to have to give this some time to grow on me, beacuse at the moment I’m not enjoying it as much as their previous duet work, or Buddy’s solo records. I just don’t think I like Julie’s voice much, and this album seems to feature her upfront much more. But the songs are good so it may work its way into my heart if I give it a chance. I love the album packaging, btw.

By: nm

nm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:56:35 +0000

Kelly, it was weird. Anyway, my real point was simply that Julie Miller was sounding like herself before anyone had heard of Kasey Chambers, so if it were me, I would compare them the other way round.

And I apologize for derailing the thread from the awesomenes of Written in Chalk, which I don’t for one instant dispute.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:16:31 +0000

Williams’ voice always sounded more husky to me than Chambers’.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:14:02 +0000

Their voices are so amazingly different from one another, I just cant picture that. Many of her earlier works bares a resemblence to Williams work, as she has cited Williams as a hero of hers, but I just cant wrap my head around her voice sounding anything like Williams voice as they are both remarkable but in differnt ways (to me at least)…

By: nm

nm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:58:07 +0000

The first US tour she did, years back, she sounded just like Lucinda. Which was kind of disconcerting, since she was performing a couple of Lucinda’s songs.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:31:51 +0000

NM: When did Chambers voice sound like Lucinda’s?

Leeann: You’re right, we still have Rattlin’ Bones. The truth is, I didnt dislike the Willie/Wheel album as much as I am just not a fan of Western Swing in general, for wahtever reason…I really wanted to like what i heard and just didnt….

By: nm

nm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:12:50 +0000

“Julie’s voice sounds remarkably like Kasey Chambers”

Surely it’s the other way around, especially since Kasey Chambers used to sound like Lucinda Williams but changed for her latest album.

I do just love this album, though, including Julie’s jazz turn.