Leavin' 101, by Geoffrey Miller

Leavin' 101

by Geoffrey Miller

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1.	Leavin' 101 03:38	buy track
2.	Cold Coffee, Warm Beer 03:56	buy track
3.	Stuck in Love 02:48	buy track
4.	I Didn't Know You Could Be So Cruel 03:42	buy track
5.	Just Another Stranger 02:59	buy track
6.	Grand Ville 03:08	buy track
7.	Good Morning Blues 02:10	buy track
8.	This Heart Could Be Yours 03:17	buy track
9.	My Heart Starts Jumpin' 01:59	buy track
10.	Discount Memories 03:10	buy track
11.	Population 3 02:43	buy track
12.	Steal My Kisses 03:20	buy track
13.	Wrong Way! 02:44	buy track

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On Feb 1, 2022, Geoffrey Miller releases his second full-length album comprised of 13 original songs. A native and life-long resident of rural California, Miller channels his deeply engrained sense of Bakersfield-style country into Leavin’ 101. From the lyrical content of the title track to stylistic nods toward Bakersfield sound pioneers Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Don Rich, and Red Simpson, the follow up album is true ‘California country’.

The title track “Leavin’ 101” is a play on words referencing California’s Highway 101 about a woman’s way of leaving, with geographic references harkening to songs by the likes of Rich and Simpson. The tunes “Good Morning Blues”, Population 3, and “Discount Memories” tell stories of resigned post-love desolation, faithfully adhering the Bakersfield ethos, while the tracks “This Heart Could Be Yours” and “Cold Coffee, Warm Beer” offer more contemporary leaning variations on the iconic sound. Somehow, the songs of betrayal, painful encounters with past love, and rueful isolation do not impede the album’s tempo, which is mostly upbeat and danceable. Still, if a slow, heart-crushing country ballad is needed, “I Didn’t Know You Could Be So Cruel” checks the box. The dark emotional caves of heartache are counterbalanced by light-hearted love songs “Steal My Kisses” and “My Heart Starts Jumpin’”, spanning the emotional extremes of falling in and from love. The album concludes with “Wrong Way!”, a cautionary plea for return, drawing upon psychedelic trucker country sounds characteristic of a late 1970s David Dudley.

Leavin’ 101 includes performances from industry heavies, including Scott Joss (Dwight Yoakam, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson) on fiddle, Travis Toy (Rascal Flats) on steel guitar, Max Hart (Melissa Ethridge, Katy Perry) on steel guitar, and Zack Sapunor (Hot Club of Cowtown, Wayne Hancock) on bass. The album is mixed and mastered by vintage country and rockabilly recording artist Deke Dickerson at Ecco-Fonic Studio.

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released February 1, 2022

All songs written by Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller - all vocals and all acoustic, electric and baritone guitars
Zack Sapunor - bass
Jim Frink - drums
Larry Carr - drums
Scott Joss - fiddle
Travis Toy - steel guitar
Max Hart - steel guitar
Bill Bergren - steel guitar
Tommy Phelps - steel guitar

Mixed and mastered by Deke Dickerson at Ecco-Fonic Studios

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Geoffrey Miller Sacramento, California

Boogie woogie cheating songs, love-lamenting ballads, rockabilly country bops, lonesome melodic soliloquies—the tones of Geoffrey Miller’s debut solo album “All Night Honky Tonk Man”—tell a story reaching back to Miller’s childhood.

For Miller, the album is the incarnation of personal truth rooted in the living lore of Americana country music. ... more

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