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The Red Road
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 1993
Genre Country music
Length55:52
LabelWarner Western
Producer Richard Bennett
Bill Miller chronology
Reservation Road - Live
(1992)
The Red Road
(1993)
Raven in the Snow
(1995)

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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dreams of Wounded Knee" 4:12
2."Praises"Bill Miller, Myron Pyawasit5:44
3."Two Hawks" 2:16
4."Reservation Road"John Flanagan, Brent Holmes, Bill Miller4:34
5."Tumbleweed"Bill Miller, Peter Rowan4:35
6."Faith of a Child" 6:55
7."Many Trails" 2:42
8."Trail of Freedom"Bob Corbin, Bill Miller4:51
9."Inter-Tribal Pow Wow Song"Myron Pyawasit2:30
10."Kokopelli's Journey"Sam Bacco, David Hoffner, Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal12:43
11."My People"John Flanagan, Bill Miller4:50

Personnel

References

  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)."