Posts tagged with ‘The Leaving’

Photos of The Leaving album release by Drew Allegre.

(Source: photos.fahrenheit128.com)

My Old Kentucky Blog did a great write-up on Lee Miles’ for their ‘New Song’ feature and made No You’re Not. You’re Disloyal their new song of the day today, December 28th. Here’s an excerpt: Fort Wayne’s Lee Miles is hell-bent on proving that, even if Jack and Diane are the blessed couple of Indiana roots music, the story need not end there for The Hoosier state. Through the course of a dozen thoughtful and tuneful numbers, Miles’ newest record, The Leaving, makes it abundantly clear that this is a young man with his own voice and plenty to say. More impressively, he avoids the temptation of trying to be too clever, a trap that has snared more young folkies than is fit for mention. (Read more)

My Old Kentucky Blog did a great write-up on Lee Miles’ for their ‘New Song’ feature and made No You’re Not. You’re Disloyal their new song of the day today, December 28th. Here’s an excerpt:

Fort Wayne’s Lee Miles is hell-bent on proving that, even if Jack and Diane are the blessed couple of Indiana roots music, the story need not end there for The Hoosier state. Through the course of a dozen thoughtful and tuneful numbers, Miles’ newest record, The Leaving, makes it abundantly clear that this is a young man with his own voice and plenty to say. More impressively, he avoids the temptation of trying to be too clever, a trap that has snared more young folkies than is fit for mention. (Read more)

Healing Refrains

Steve Penhollow did a write up of Lee Miles for The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette that was published yesterday. Here’s an excerpt:

I want Lee Miles to leave Fort Wayne.

As soon as possible.

That’s not the same as wanting him to be “run out of town on a rail” as they used to say back in the days when they had too much time on their hands and too many rails, apparently.

I want Lee Miles to leave Fort Wayne so people outside Fort Wayne can find out how good he is.

You can read the full article, which includes an interview, right here.

Listen to two tracks from the new album right here:

No You’re Not. You’re Disloyal - The Leaving

Ballad of Laura Belle - The Leaving

Chronicle of a Bad Year

from Lee Miles:

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Songwriter Lee Miles pays a lot of attention to words. There’s hardly a throw away line in his lyrics, no pat phrases chosen just to fit a rhyme scheme or fill a chorus, so it’s probably not surprising that when talking about his new album The Leaving, Miles seems a little… (Read More)

The Leaving - Lee Miles