![]() The Vinyl configurations include: 2 LPs with printed inner sleeves, in a Gate- fold jacket. ![]() “I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice,” she says, “but I just wanted to do it so bad.” When her voice jumps an octave, it’s almost visible, like sparks at night. Since escaping the labels of country and Americana, the gorgeous train-whistle vocals of her early career sit submerged in her later style, where their ghost can appear any minute. Gathering power year after year, Neko sings with the fierce abandon of a newborn infant crying in a basket in the woods. With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated with The New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including ‘Fox Confessor Brings The Flood’, ‘Middle Cyclone’ and most recently 2018’s ‘Hell-On’. Wild Creatures is a career retrospective album containing twenty-three of Neko Case’s most impactful tracks from her discography, and will now be available on CD and 2x LP. The album includes guest backing vocals by Jeremy Ivey, Jesse Malin, Buddy Miller, Angel Olsen, Margo Price and Tommy Stinson. Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart was produced by Williams, Overby and Ray Kennedy, who also engineered. Williams is in great form as heard on her new single “New York Comeback,” written by Williams, Tom Overby and Jesse Malin, with Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen on backing vocals. Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart marks a triumphant return from one of our most revered artists and songwriters. Later that November, Williams suffered a stroke that partially impaired some of her motor skills on the left side of her body, forcing her to learn to walk again and taking away her ability to play the guitar. In 2020, a tornado damaged her new home in Nashville, followed two weeks later by the beginning of the COVID lockdown. ![]() The last couple years have been challenging for Williams. 2023 will be a special year for Williams: she turned 70 in January and on April 25th will release her long-awaited memoir Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You (Crown, a division of Penguin Random House LLC). Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams will release her highly anticipated new album Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart on June 30th (Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers). This June, Miller will embark on a handful of dates supporting Tyler Childers. Spending time off of the road allowed him to hone in on his songwriting and it became clear that the time had come to step away from the drum kit and focus on his own artistic vision. ![]() While drumming and vocals are what he has been most noted for, playing guitar is his first love. In 2009, he was discovered by acclaimed producer Dave Cobb after playing drum covers on YouTube at the age of 16. Raised in central Kentucky, Miller has spent the better part of the past decade on the road as a drummer for artists including Sturgill Simpson and Town Mountain. It’s an album about the cycle of a love story that crumbles.” It’s an entire story essentially about wanting to get back to the love you have, realizing you shouldn’t give it away, to love leaving, hitting the road because of it leaving, feeling love on the road, love from home, to realizing you need to keep walking and wish them well. Of the album, Miller shares, “Solid Gold is a love story, but about love being around and love leaving. The album was recorded over the course of three days in January 2022 in Nashville, TN. Produced by Sturgill Simpson, the album features twelve original songs and marks the first body of work released by Miller as a solo artist. Solid Gold, the long-awaited solo debut album from acclaimed musician Miles Miller will be released July 7 via Thirty Tigers.
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