Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller and the Rockin' Rousers   digital and vinyl

(Self-issued)

The dust on Geoffrey's boot heels is hardscrabble certification of the pickin' bard's genuineness. From his songcraft pen and home-folks- affable guitaring flow good-humored, sway-backed, sittin'-on-the-fence minstrelsy that could raise up a barn or dig for kicks in a neon-flashing big city with nary a care, save for that specially warm honey. 

When I glimpsed song title "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch," I guessed Geoffrey would be having a time with the Buck Owens classic. Chalk that in my loss column. Turned out to be a sprawling instrumental during which the man whose name adorns the cover shuffled sophisticated dirt-road licks and dealt them out like a cowboy-hatted croupier.

To quote Ferlin Husky in Hillbillys in a Haunted House: "He picks a mean guitar!"

Recommended: "Don't Shake My Heart," "So Goes the Nation," "Good Morning Blues," "The Whip," "You're There," "Can't Catch a Star," "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch," "California Shakes"

Videos: "Don't Shake My Heart" (live)   "So Goes the Nation"   "The Whip"   "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch"

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Aaron Burnham and the Brushfires

smoke & mirrors

(Self-issued)

Four Bakersfieldian Jacks is a winning hand, according to Opry Hoyley. Sharp in Country gentleman attire, pasteboards two-step across the table. Pulling in winnings ("Come to Papa") and squiring home-and-hearth dollies - livin' the low life ain't so bad, a'tall.

Recommended: "High Life," "Runaround," "Crazy for My Daisy," "Alleycattin'," "Gussy Up," "Smoke and Mirrors," "In With the New" (album version), "I Only Smoke When I Drink," "Lonely Bottle Blues," "Salinas," "Dynamite"

Videos: "High Life"   "Crazy for My Daisy"   "I Only Smoke When I Drink"   "Dynamite"

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Brandon Wayne & His Lonesome Drifters

The broken everyman's shoulders slumped, as he leaned against the Seeburg. A nearly empty bottle of house whiskey was his sole pal. Digging in a pocket, he fed another coin into the juke, and selected Brandon's latest. For the seventh time.

Video: "Swimming in the Bottle"   

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Geoffrey Miller

Everything that Sparkles

(Self-issued)

A Tele-packin' Honky Tonk habitué, with back-home boys along, thumbs to Bakersfield to buy a longhorned Bonneville from a fast-talker with one hulking bodyguard. Finding themselves before a crowd constituted of Old Milwaukee folks and more metropolitan elbow benders, Geoffrey and pals rear back and send out swinging Country that freely twangs what's on its heart and mind (including hard-luck recitations and biographical reminiscences). Whole lotta shufflin' goin' on. Het up folks havin' a high old time, gettin' their en-joys as first chair amblings from quality stock step out. The Bonneville waits at curbside.

Recommended: "Everything that Sparkles," "Heartbreak, Coming Soon...," "Exes and Os," "The Crow Flies," "Crystal Bottle," "On a Bender," "In Pieces," "Okie Road"

Videos: "Everything that Sparkles"   "Crystal Bottle"   "On a Bender"   "In Pieces"

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