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12 tracks | 45 minutes
Released Apr 2006
on House of Trout
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:16 Hickory Tree lyrics BUY MP3 03:16 Hickory Tree lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:16 Hickory Tree
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:26 Job to Do lyrics BUY MP3 03:26 Job to Do lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:26 Job to Do
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:20 Nolichucky Idyll lyrics FREE 05:20 Nolichucky Idyll lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:20 Nolichucky Idyll
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:51 Highway 81 lyrics BUY MP3 03:51 Highway 81 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:51 Highway 81
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 I Walk When I Have to (but Mostly I Like to Drive) lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 I Walk When I Have to (but Mostly I Like to Drive) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 I Walk When I Have to (but Mostly I Like to Drive)
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:15 This Face lyrics BUY MP3 03:15 This Face lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:15 This Face
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:35 Finale lyrics BUY MP3 00:35 Finale lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:35 Finale
A gamut of Americana music mixed with handfuls of blues, country, and swing, with some rock ‘n’ roll undertones and a few dashes of Leon Redbone thrown in for good measure.
Bio / Background
From John Prine to Guy Clark to Hoagy Carmichael to Shakespeare, Keith Miles has always been a fan of storytellers whose well-honed prose and perfectly turned phrasing paints vivid images in the mind’s eye.
And that inspiration comes through loud and clear on Miles debut CD, What It Was They Became (House of Trout Records), which runs a gamut of Americana music mixed with handfuls of blues, country, and swing, with some rock ‘n’ roll undertones and a few dashes of Leon Redbone thrown in for good measure.
It’s the words that have always been important to Miles, a Virginia native who mostly grew up in a mid-sized college town in East Tennessee, where influences of the post-hippie 70s met head-on with the musical and storytelling heritage of the Appalachians.
↓ more ↓As Miles went through a professional evolution from daily newspaper reporter to Congressional press secretary to partner in a Nashville public relations firm, he never put down his guitar or his pencil, or especially his desire to burn a selection of his handicraft to disc.
Miles isn’t quitting his day job, but neither is What It Was They Became just a vanity project. While music is an avocation, Miles has had some success. He was a co-writer on Iola, which was released in the mid-90s by Great Plains, and he got a two-for-one, with cuts by Great Plains and Kenny Rogers on the also co-written Homeland.
Backed in the studio by a tight-knit band of topnotch musicians (and friends), Miles brings his stories to life with equal parts of wry, wit and imagery. The album was produced by Jack Sundrud, a longtime Nashville musician, former frontman for the band Great Plains, and now touring bassist for the legendary country rock group, Poco.
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