The Red Road (Bill Miller album)
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Released | August 3, 1993 | |||
Genre | Country music | |||
Length | 55:52 | |||
Label | Warner Western | |||
Producer | Richard Bennett | |||
Bill Miller (musician) chronology | ||||
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The Red Road is a 1993 Country music album by Native American singer Bill Miller (musician). The album was his major-label debut, with Warner Western, and brought him to a broader popular Country music public.[1][2] The album has been classed among classic country "drivers'" albums.[3][4]
Track listing[]
All tracks are written by Bill Miller, unless otherwise noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Dreams of Wounded Knee" | 4:12 | |
2. | "Praises" | Bill Miller, Myron Pyawasit | 5:44 |
3. | "Two Hawks" | 2:16 | |
4. | "Reservation Road" | John Flanagan, Brent Holmes, Bill Miller | 4:34 |
5. | "Tumbleweed" | Bill Miller, Peter Rowan | 4:35 |
6. | "Faith of a Child" | 6:55 | |
7. | "Many Trails" | 2:42 | |
8. | "Trail of Freedom" | Bob Corbin, Bill Miller | 4:51 |
9. | "Inter-Tribal Pow Wow Song" | Myron Pyawasit | 2:30 |
10. | "Kokopelli's Journey" | Sam Bacco, David Hoffner, Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal | 12:43 |
11. | "My People" | John Flanagan, Bill Miller | 4:50 |
Personnel[]
- David Angell - violin
- Sam Bacco - percussion
- Richard Bennett - guitar
- Mike Brignardello - bass
- John Catchings - cello
- Joe Chemay - bass
- Bob Corbin - vocal harmonies
- David Davidson - violin
- Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
- Jim Grosjean - viola
- David Hoffner - keyboards
- Mary Ann Kennedy - voices
- Robert Mirabal - flute, voices
- Dave Pomeroy - bass
- Pamela Rose - voices
- Bill Miller - flute, guitar, harmonica, percussion
References[]
- ^ Billboard - 2 Aug 1997 - Page 18 "Prominent among that new generation is Bill Miller, a Mohican whose rock-tinged efforts ... With the boost from those gigs, and a more alternative-styled repackaging of his album "The Red Road," radio began ..."
- ^ Billboard - 7 Oct 1995 - Page 13 "His major-label debut, "The Red Road" on Warner Western, paid tribute to his Native American heritage and earned him an opening slot on ... "eveiyone who has ever been a Bill Miller fan goes right along with him in his exploration of his art."
- ^ Cecelia Tichi High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music 1994- Page 52 "Diffie's l Thousand Winding Roads, Native American Bill Miller's The Red Road. And Rodney Crowell's Keys to the Highway seems a driver's command performance."
- ^ Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia 2000 "Singer-songwriter Bill Miller started out in a Mohican band in the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation of Wisconsin. He mixes indigenous styles with the country flavours of his adopted base of Nashville. The Red Road (Warner Western, US)."
Categories:
- 1993 albums