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Friday, October 20, 2006

Mrs Miller's Greatest Hits

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I discovered Mrs Miller while perusing Frank's Vinyl Museum and instantly fell in love with her. The album cover says it all. Mrs Miller exudes a seductive swagger that would intimidate the breath out of Frank Sinatra. Take a look at the way she holds that microphone. Enough said.

But does she have the goods to back it up? Sadly, not. If anything, she's the perfect example of someone who is too confident — and someone sought to take advantage of her own self-deception.
Mrs. Miller's album is definitely over the top, but I get the very sinister feeling from the liner notes that while Miller herself may have been completely serious about what she was doing, whoever coaxed her to make this album was laughing on the inside, and probably egging her on to be even more extreme.

Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits


With that said, there is no doubt in my mind that Mrs Miller is responsible for the best version of Downtown ever recorded. You got to hear it for yourself. There is nothing like it.

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