Jody Miller is a somewhat forgotten singer these days, but during the 1960\u2019s, she recorded several pop hits, and during the 1970\u2019s placed 25 singles on the Billboard Country Charts.<\/p>\n
Born in Phoenix but raised in Oklahoma, Miller signed a contract with the Capital label in her early twenties and quickly produced the biggest pop hit of her career with \u201cQueen Of The House,\u201d a clever re-working of Roger Miller\u2019s \u201cKing Of The Road.\u201d It also became a country hit and earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.<\/p>\n
Dropped by Capital at the end of the decade, her career took a dramatic turn when she formed a musical relationship with legendary country producer Billy Sherrill. He figured out how to harness Miller\u2019s booming voice and match it to the right material. It added up to one of the catchier and better catalogues of \u201970s country music. Real Gone Music has now reissued all 25 of her Epic label chart hits under the title Jody Miller: Complete Epic Hits<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The most memorable tracks are re-workings of early rock \u2018n\u2019 roll hits, which Miller moved over into a country style with slick production by Sherrill. Songs such as \u201cHe\u2019s So Fine\u201d (#5 on the country charts), \u201cBaby I\u2019m Yours\u201d (#5), \u201cBe My Baby\u201d (#15), \u201cWill You Love Me Tomorrow\u201d (#69), and \u201cTo Know Him Is To Love Him\u201d (#18) were light and breezy interpretations, and some of the earliest recordings to begin to bridge the gap between pop and country.<\/p>\n
Billy Sherrill wrote several songs just for Miller. \u201cThere\u2019s A Party Goin\u2019 On\u201d (#4) was similar to her early rock interpretations, while \u201cGood News\u201d (#9) went in a gospel direction. \u201cKiss Away\u201d (#65) was more of a traditional country song made unique by the addition of strings.<\/p>\n
The two most interesting tracks are covers of \u201cHouse Of The Rising Sun\u201d and Aretha Franklin\u2019s \u201cNatural Woman.\u201d Miller gave a country twist to these two well-known rock and soul songs.<\/p>\n
Jody Miller may not have changed the face of country music or achieved superstar status, but she issued a versatile and excellent collection of material during her career, and it remains a smooth listen today. While it would have been nice to have had her pop hits for the Capital label included too, Jody Miller: Complete Country Hits<\/i> contains most of the better material of her career. Besides, much of <\/a>her music has been out of print for years and it\u2019s nice to have it back in circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8799],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42554","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jody-miller","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42554"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}