Blue Pony

Editorial Reviews
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Julie Miller's first secular album, Blue Pony, combines the exquisite Appalachiana of Gillian Welch with the whispery confessionalism of Lisa Loeb. Julie and her husband Buddy sing on each other's albums and work with the same pool of musicians. Together they have released two of the best country discs of the decade. As good as Buddy's album was, Julie's is even better. She has a high, small soprano that evokes the emotional transparency of a teenage girl, but she's been through the love wars enough times to recognize the moment "when the lie comes down like a kiss on the lips." A strain of spirituality runs through the album that hints at her background in Christian music, and like Sam Phillips, Julie makes her religious concerns so down-to-earth that it's empathetic, not preachy. --Geoffrey Himes

Tracks:

A Kiss On The Lips
Take Me Back
By Way Of Sorrow
Dancing Girl
Give Me An Ocean
All The Pieces Of Mary
The Devil Is An Angel
Letters To Emily
I Call On You
Face Of Appalachia
Forever My Beloved
Blue Pony
Last Song

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Julie Miller's first secular album, Blue Pony, combines the exquisite Appalachiana of Gillian Welch with the whispery confessionalism of Lisa Loeb. Julie and her husband Buddy sing on each other's albums and work with the same pool of musicians. Together they have released two of the best country discs of the decade. As good as Buddy's album was, Julie's is even better. She has a high, small soprano that evokes the emotional transparency of a teenage girl, but she's been through the love wars enough times to recognize the moment "when the lie comes down like a kiss on the lips." A strain of spirituality runs through the album that hints at her background in Christian music, and like Sam Phillips, Julie makes her religious concerns so down-to-earth that it's empathetic, not preachy. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

A masterpiece.......2006-10-07

Solid and earthy, Blue Pony is wonderful Americana music. Julie and husband Buddy Miller deliver a fantastic blend of country, folk, rock and southern blues. If you are a fan of The Lost Dogs you will totally dig this.
Julie's haunting soprano with Buddy's grit gives a meaty performance.

Excellent album.......2004-01-10

Julie Miller's BLUE PONY album is truly amazing, from start to finish. The opener "A Kiss On The Lips", is a rockin little tune that will have you reaching for the repeat button. I find her lyrics to be very introspective and true speaking, especially on reflective ballads like "Give Me An Ocean" or "Blue Pony". Songs like "Dnacing Girl", "All The Pieces of Mary", "Take Me Back" and "The Devil is an Angel" will have you singing along. There's a good variety of music here, including country, americana, blues, roots, and more. Her unique vocals combined with the strength of the lyrics bring the songs alive, a listening experience like no other. Give BLUE PONY a try!

Quintessential American fusion...............2001-12-29

I don't have strong enough words to use in describing what a fantastic album this is.

Julie Miller's "Blue Pony" covers the range of the roots of America's musical history, form Rock, Folk, Country and Celtic all the way to Blues.

Give this a close listen folks. Rarely do we get to hear a recording that embodies so much mucical passion.

Julie and her husband Buddy are a treasure trove in American Music, and, as such, too well kept of a secret.

Buy 2, and prepare to want to give this album to everyone you care about!!

I don't get it........2001-07-20

If you like listening to women singers with annoying, little-girl voices, this CD is for you. I bought the CD because I'm an Emmylou Harris fan, and I noticed that, according to Amazon, people who bought some of Harris's CDs also bought Miller's. After listening to Blue Pony, I don't understand why.

Appalachian Spring ... Summer, Autumn and Winter.......2001-04-11

Hello Music Fans,

There's something quite satisfying, stunning and yet wholesome about traditional song-writing combined with the sophistication and professionalism of modern arrangements and the talent and poise of a great bunch of contemporary artists that made this album possible.

One of the great enigmas of contemporary art is in how to capture the intangible aspects of personal ways of seeing things, whether it is of pastoral themes, virtual communities or sordid city life, and then project what one wishes to say about these things in a way that is both commercially attractive and also is fairly faithful to the idea or the notion of what one might wish to say.

So, for example, the down to earthiness is of course all tinged with an ever present rosy glow or tinted for the tastes of the modern consumer, even the most potentially bleak of renditions, but this makes sense, after all, the degrees to which we can go to say what we want say to has to go hand in hand with the ability of the person who is listening to feel the right degree of empathy with what we have to say - too much, and we make the listener depressed beyond belief, too little, and we don't convey the idea that our hearts and minds are in what we do, sure it's a balancing act, and Judie Miller pulls it off to perfection.

This album has found the saddle point between too much and too little, between imagination and realism, between homeliness and staged professionalism - and it works well.

The songs are folksy, but not so folksy as to be corny, the spirituality of the songs are just enough to be supported by an agnostic without being a pain in the principles, and the musicality outshines everything else to make the whole experience worthwhile - believer or not.

Personally, I really liked the entry track "Kiss on the lips", which rocks quite nicely in an Appalachian sort of way, and "My blue pony", which is really pretty, and for me at least, evokes memories of childhood and innocence lost and log cabins and smoky chimneys and playing with friends in Elysium fields .

Judie Miller goes from strength to strength and this album was a great start.

Regards,

Martyn R Jones
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Mermaid Melody V.2 Hanon: Ever Blue
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Mermaid Melody V.2 Hanon: Ever Blue
Japanimation
Manufacturer: Pony Canyon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000A8UZX
Release Date: 2003-09-01