Dave Miller – Southern Dreams

Dave Miller was the leader of the legendary Arkansas-based band Gumbo back in the 70s and 80, and has returned to music with a splash, with this solo offering featuring his twinkling wit and warm insights into life and love.

Dry Spell The Hat Love Light She's so Gone I Miss Yesterday Shiny Shoes Too Far Gone Rollin' off a Log Counting on Love Right Wrong Turn Cowboys Last Show Big Boy Big Breakfast

Album Notes

Dave Miller traveled the North American continent as the leader of the “hillbilly rock fusion” band Gumbo back in the 1970s and 80s, enchanting and entertaining audiences everywhere with his ready wit and warm expression of a kind of Ozark-bred joy and wonder. He spent a few decades achieving great success in business and personal development, but the music never left, as is usually the case when it comes from the heart and soul. He’s been saving it up, and fortunately for all his listeners and fans, it’s all coming out, both with his previous release of “Just Flow”, his heartfelt tribute to his dear friend and bandmate Pat Hooper, and in this solo release, co-produced with Howlin’ Dog Records Don Richmond.

It has the blend, width and depth that Gumbo fans used to love, and more – featuring a fine blend of both an acoustic back porch vibe and driving electric guitars, featuring Richmond and Dave’s old Gumbo bandmate Robear Bosdorf. There are great open-hearted love songs and wry observations of southern culture, and most important, that twinkle in the eye that everyone who ever saw Dave perform will remember.

From Dave’s liner notes –
We all have dreams. When we close our eyes to think about the future, sing a heartfelt song, kiss some one we love, drift into sleep, or pray for grace, we come face to face with our dreams. They give us a reason to hope, to work, to persevere and to celebrate. We can travel through a dream world full of faces from the past, experiences we have imagined, magical landscapes, and flights through time. Sometimes we work and hope and nothing happens, and it hurts. Sometimes we get to live our dreams or something beyond even our wildest dreams. The songs you will find here are flavored with the spices, woven with the textures, and animated with the images that remind me of growing up, working, traveling, living, singing and dreaming in the South and Southwest regions of our beautiful country. I hope these tunes take you down a path through some of your own dreams and experiences, make you tap your toes, grin a little bit and sing along.