Wide River to Cross

Roger Waters and the Wounded Warrior Band featuring Tim Donley performing Buddy and Julie Miller's song "Wide River to Cross".

Gasoline and Matches

An animated video of Buddy & Julie Miller's song "Gasoline and Matches" performed by LeAnn Rimes and Rob Thomas with Jeff Beck on guitar.

All My Tears

Buddy Miller performs "All My Tears"—a song written by his wife, Julie Miller.

2009 Favorites

This last post of the year contains videos of my five favorite songs from 2009. Not all of the videos have the best sound so I am also including a link to the lyrics for each song.

"Funny the Way It Is" written by Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews, Leroi Moore, Boyd Tinsley and Tim Reynolds.

The song is from the Dave Matthews Band album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.

I posted an another version of this song previously in my Animation post.




"Nemesis" written by David Gray, Robbie Malone and Neill MacColl.

This is from David Gray's album Draw the Line. I had trouble getting a video of this with good audio quality. Here is an extended version of the song that ends with what I think are a couple lines from the Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill".




"Chalk" by written by Julie Miller.

This song is from Buddy & Julie Miller's album Written In Chalk. On the album Buddy performs the song with Patty Griffin, but there is no good video of them performing it together, so here is a version with just Buddy performing.



"Remember Well" written by Luke Bulla.

This song is on the album WPA put out by the group Works Progress Administration. The band is fronted by Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sean and Sara Watkins from Nickel Creek, and Luke Bulla, who wrote this song and also sings lead on it.



"Sulphur to Sugarcane" written by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett.

None of the songs so far have been particularly upbeat, and the last song was about Alzheimer's. So I at least want to end with some levity. This song is off Elvis Costello's album "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane".

Death

Flowers, the theme of my last post, was a little soft. I was going to counteract this with a post of murder ballads, but when I found the first video below, I decided to just do Death. I will do a post of murder ballads some other time.

This is Emmylou Harris performing my favorite Julie Miller song, "All My Tears". Julie and her husband, Buddy, both appear with Emmylou in this video.

You can't get more to the point than this. Ralph Stanley singing "O Death" a cappella.

And for a really sad one, Alison Krauss performing "Jacob's Dream".