Lee Miles was interviewed in an article about his new record, Heathen Blux. The article can be found in The Journal-Gazette today in Fort Wayne. In addition the article is available online.

Lee Miles' music is not strictly folk. Not in arrangement, not in attitude. Sure, his whiskey vocals - often fragile as a cracked glass - can sound like spot-on tributes to Neil Young and Bob Dylan at times. And his music owes a lot to the “folk” artists who rewrote the rules of rock, making it a safe home for poetry and introspection. But for Miles, the music is less a genre and more a “vehicle for the lyrics,” he says.

“Musically, I do what the song calls for,” Miles says. “I never put much emphasis on showing off musically. The lyrics are what's important.” Read More...

For those of you unlucky enough to have missed Lee Miles' CD release party on May 31st - Drew Allegre (Fahrenheit128.com) captured much of the night on film beautifully well. Here's a small sampling of his images from the show.





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