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Buddy & Julie Miller Release Two Songs In Advance Of New Album

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Buddy & Julie Miller today premiered โ€œSpittinโ€™ On Fireโ€ and โ€œWar Childโ€ โ€“ two singles off their forthcoming album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South. The album, available June 21 via New West Records, follows the Millerโ€™s critically acclaimed 2009 release, Written In Chalk.

Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, produced by Miller, tackles many difficult subjects through the coupleโ€™s poetic storytelling and vulnerable honesty. The recordings (done in the Millerโ€™s bedroom), along with Julieโ€™s emotive voice and Buddyโ€™s instrumentation and harmonies, offer a purposeful intimacy.

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โ€œWe wanted the record to be just us,โ€ Buddy said in a press release. โ€œThe songs are all Julieโ€™s, and she wanted the sound to be as raw as the lyrics are.โ€ 

The โ€œSpittinโ€™ On Fireโ€ b/w โ€œWar Childโ€ physical single can be purchased in record stores starting this Friday, March 29. Dates will soon be announced regarding two additional physical singles that will preview Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, making this album the first in 10 years to be led by three seven-inch vinyl singles.

Listen to โ€œSpittinโ€™ On Fireโ€ and โ€œWar Childโ€ below.