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She recalls someone once telling her, “you know, Julie, a lot of people who are Christians are artificial, but you have become free and that freedom shows in your life and music.” But the song also describes some deep things that happened that caused me to have some disbelief about life.”Ī deep vein of spirituality runs through her life and through the songs on Breakdown on 20 th Ave. “I was seeking self-approval and drugs, and I was also wild because I thought boys wanted you to be wild. “I was wild,” Julie says of her younger days. A lot of the songs on here name the problem, others were more about God.”Īfter a slow fade-in, the propulsive, almost in-your-face, this-is-my-story title track opens with a chorus that forcefully dramatizes the darkness of any kind of breakdown: “In the night, in the night / Who hears the words coming out of your mouth / In the night, in the night / Breakdown on 20 th Avenue South.” The song also weaves in chapters from Julie’s life: “I was a joyride, I was a hippie girl / I was like a baton that you could twirl / Malevolent forces, but I couldn’t swerve / When I think about it they had a lot of nerve.” God has his hand in it I don’t think I’m that smart. I was telling Shawn Colvin that I have this radio station in my head.

As Buddy tells it, “There was every kind of breakdown: physical, emotional, breakdown of relationship, musical breakdown.” For Julie, “the songs that were going to be on the record are not the songs that ended up being on the record. Yet, the honesty on this album reflects a search for restoration, a search to move beyond life’s tragedies, a search for just a little understanding, and a search for answers to questions of injustice. “Buddy can get pushy in the studio sometimes when he thinks a song should go in a certain direction,” she laughs.

South may be the most personal album that the couple has made it reflects some of the tensions of two creative people moving in different directions for so long and then tentatively and slowly coming back together. I think it was because he felt bad about being away,” she says.īreakdown on 20 th Ave. Just to steer the boat and keep it out of muddy waters.” According to Julie, Buddy’s ability to play anything, his deep music knowledge - “he’s a musicologist of old country music!” - and his ability to hear things differently than she does are his greatest assets and what helped him steer this album. As a producer, he didn’t try to put his sonic imprint on the album. She will pick up a guitar and the song will just flow out.” He says he just tries to play something and to get out of the way of the song. Half of the songs we started out with didn’t even make it onto the album.”īuddy Miller says he wanted this to be Julie’s album. “We didn’t even say we were making a record. “I didn’t go into this thinking we were making a record,” Buddy recalls. “When Buddy told me that,” Julie laughs, “I had an accountable witness.” Once they had five or six songs, Buddy reminded Julie: “You know, we have this record label, and they’ve been waiting for your next album.” “This was different from every record I’ve ever made,” Miller says. She would bring him a song, and he would play all the instruments on it, demo-ing the song. “Julie has been on this creative output that doesn’t seem to end,” he says. Buddy admits that it was a challenge to record in such a small space, but, he says, “we have this honest batch of songs recorded in an honest fashion.” After recording one song - “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” - in a tiny space in an upstairs bedroom, they so liked the emotional clarity of the sound they kept recording there.

And he still tries to take the blame,” she laughs.īuddy Miller has a beautiful studio in their home on 20 th Avenue South in Nashville, but the couple didn’t make the album there. Every show was like making an album.”Īs Julie says of the space between albums, “I tried to figure out a way to make it his fault, but I couldn’t - though he’ll tell you it is his fault. I took over as executive music producer, from T Bone Burnett, for Nashville. “I didn’t take anything I didn’t love,” he says. “I got to make music with people I love. He toured with Emmylou Harris and with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant for Raising Sand, and did a lot of producing. Around the same time, Buddy was keeping busy with everything else. Ten years ago, Julie discovered she had fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by pain and fatigue, and dealing with her health kept her from working on anything new. South, out on New West on June 21, took them both a little by surprise, especially since they hadn’t worked together for so long. Their new record, Breakdown on 20 th Ave. Although it’s been 10 years since their last album, Written in Chalk, Buddy and Julie Miller didn’t have any special plans to make a new album.

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