The Red Road (Bill Miller album)

The Red Road
The Red Road
Studio album by Bill Miller
Released	August 3, 1993
Genre	Country music
Length	55:52
Label	Warner Western
Producer	Richard Bennett
Bill Miller chronology

The Red Road is a 1993 country music album by Native American singer Bill Miller. The album was his major-label debut, with Warner Western, and brought him to a broader popular country music public.[1][2] The album has been classed among classic country "drivers'" albums.[3][4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bill Miller, unless otherwise noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dreams of Wounded Knee"		4:12
2.	"Praises"	Bill Miller, Myron Pyawasit	5:44
3.	"Two Hawks"		2:16
4.	"Reservation Road"	John Flanagan, Brent Holmes, Bill Miller	4:34
5.	"Tumbleweed"	Bill Miller, Peter Rowan	4:35
6.	"Faith of a Child"		6:55
7.	"Many Trails"		2:42
8.	"Trail of Freedom"	Bob Corbin, Bill Miller	4:51
9.	"Inter-Tribal Pow Wow Song"	Myron Pyawasit	2:30
10.	"Kokopelli's Journey"	Sam Bacco, David Hoffner, Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal	12:43
11.	"My People"	John Flanagan, Bill Miller	4:50

Personnel

David Angell - violin
Sam Bacco - percussion
Richard Bennett - guitar
Mike Brignardello - bass
John Catchings - cello
Joe Chemay - bass
Bob Corbin - vocal harmonies
David Davidson - violin
Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
Jim Grosjean - viola
David Hoffner - keyboards
Mary Ann Kennedy - voices
Robert Mirabal - flute, voices
Dave Pomeroy - bass
Pamela Rose - voices
Bill Miller - flute, guitar, harmonica, percussion

References

Billboard - 2 Aug 1997 - Page 18 "Prominent among that new generation is Bill Miller, a Mohican whose rock-tinged efforts ... With the boost from those gigs, and a more alternative-styled repackaging of his album "The Red Road," radio began ..."
Billboard - 7 Oct 1995 - Page 13 "His major-label debut, "The Red Road" on Warner Western, paid tribute to his Native American heritage and earned him an opening slot on ... "everyone who has ever been a Bill Miller fan goes right along with him in his exploration of his art."
Cecelia Tichi High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music 1994- Page 52 "Diffie's l Thousand Winding Roads, Native American Bill Miller's The Red Road. And Rodney Crowell's Keys to the Highway seems a driver's command performance."
Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia 2000 "Singer-songwriter Bill Miller started out in a Mohican band in the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation of Wisconsin. He mixes indigenous styles with the country flavours of his adopted base of Nashville. The Red Road (Warner Western, US)."

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[1] Billboard - 2 Aug 1997 - Page 18 "Prominent among that new generation is Bill Miller, a Mohican whose rock-tinged efforts ... With the boost from those gigs, and a more alternative-styled repackaging of his album "The Red Road," radio began ..."

[2] Billboard - 7 Oct 1995 - Page 13 "His major-label debut, "The Red Road" on Warner Western, paid tribute to his Native American heritage and earned him an opening slot on ... "everyone who has ever been a Bill Miller fan goes right along with him in his exploration of his art."

[3] Cecelia Tichi High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music 1994- Page 52 "Diffie's l Thousand Winding Roads, Native American Bill Miller's The Red Road. And Rodney Crowell's Keys to the Highway seems a driver's command performance."

[4] Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia 2000 "Singer-songwriter Bill Miller started out in a Mohican band in the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation of Wisconsin. He mixes indigenous styles with the country flavours of his adopted base of Nashville. The Red Road (Warner Western, US)."