- Label: 'Think Like A Key Music'
- Genre: 'Alt/Country'
- Release Date: '20.3.26.'- Catalogue No: 'TLAK 1226'
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Child Of the Kindly South is the latest traditional country album Recorded by W.D. Miller at Small Blue Studio's in Lexington Kentucky with producer J. Tom Hinatow, he is backed by members of Magnolia Boulevard, Horse Feathers, and Frigidkitty, along with guest vocals from Maggie Noelle, Michelle Miller, Aaron Boyd, and Aaron Smith.
The album opens with Etude No 1 In A (The Rise Of El Guapo) that acts like a gentle introduction to the old-time country sounds of W.D Miller. Banquet Of Stone is dark deep ruminations on sinners, shackled, shuffling to hear the preacher's words, with a classic fiddles, banjos and lap steel backing, for this sad lament for breaking rocks on that ole chain gang.
Go, Go! (The Songwriters Lament) is a more upbeat country rocker for a crowd shouting out for the kid to write another one of them thar hit rekkids, the sad songs they love so much at the Grand Ole Opry, you too can sound more miserable than George Jones if ya try hard enough.
Carry Your Burden and make sure it ain't so heavy you sink under the weight of it. The slow skiffle beat trying to lift the weight of the world off your shoulders, but in times like these when the dust bowl years seem like the days of wine and roses, of course you are mired in pain and agony, when his mistress arrived to try to ease his coal black heart.
Dear John is one of those classic Country letter songs, like he is Red Sovine, with all the memoires of what you did over in Montgomery, a true angel of Alabama, while you ask for a few more pearls of wisdom be provided.
Best Revenge is living well is a slow plucked acoustic and fiddle tale of the darkness we all feel, when he sings Boombox it sounds so out of place, but the subtlety of the production and playing makes this sound revelatory.
Fell Apart is a whisky soaked song of heartbreak and despair that it all fell apart, this duet has the bitter regrets and knowledge of just what he did to make you flea the coop, she will never forgive your trespasses.
Watch It All Burn currently seems like it could easily be about the state of a nation burning and tearing itself apart from within, or the latest middle east news, rather than deep heartbreak and sadness at the dastardly deeds you did to the one who loved you most, but he lit the fire to burn it all down again.
Shades Are Drawn, you don't want to go out, your worried about that big black cloud over you, the ICE agents prowling the streets worry you less, than your old friends whose opinions you valued, who now are out for revenge for the pain you caused, summed up with the dark musical ruminations, the phone message trying to get you to answer and speak once more, rather than curling up in a corner with more re-runs of Nashville and Camberwick Green to see glimpses of your hero Windy Miller hard at work.
One Hell Of A Ride is honky-tonk country bar sing along, for all the good ole boys who have lived it like they meant it, who all agree they've had a Hell Of A Ride, I was waiting for cries of Yee Ha in the background, this sounds like it will get raucous live. The album closes with Little Things/Coda a slow picked reflection on the Little Things in life and how they affect WD Miller and his big ole heart.
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