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Track Listing
1. Ellis County
2. Gasoline And Matches
3. Don't Say Goodbye - (featuring Patty Griffin)
4. What You Gonna Do Leroy - (featuring Robert Plant)
5. Long Time
6. One Part, Two Part - (featuring Regina McCrary)
7. Chalk - (featuring Patty Griffin)
8. Everytime We Say Goodbye
9. Hush, Sorrow - (featuring Regina McCrary)
10. Memphis Jane
11. June
12. Selfishness In Man, The - (featuring Emmylou Harris)
Album Notes
The fourth official duo album by Nashville singer-songwriters Buddy and Julie Miller (although each always appears on the other's nominally solo albums as well), WRITTEN IN CHALK is as pleasantly evanescent as its title. Like Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's RAISING SAND as re-interpreted by the Band circa MUSIC FROM BIG PINK, there is an off the cuff, loosey-goosey feel to these songs that only serves to improve them. Plant makes a guest vocal appearance on the sly shuffle "Whatcha Gonna Do, Leroy," and Emmylou Harris sings a haunting duet with Julie Miller on "The Selfishness Of Man."
Industry Reviews
There's a soul-clasped gut intuition to the way their voices dance about one another that just breaks your heart.
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he real star is Buddy, who brings a poet's knack for fresh imagery to songs of spiritual thirst and romantic strife.
4 stars out of 5 -- Julie wrote most of the songs, most are country ballads -- sentimental, heartfelt and tend towards the sacred.
WRITTEN IN CHALK sounds like a breakup record, with the Millers picking through an emotional boneyard of broken promises, shattered hearts, and spiritual uncertainty.
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