Buddy Miller will release Buddy Miller on September 11, 2026 via New West Records. The 12-track set is his first solo album in fifteen years and was produced by Miller, recorded by Mike Poole, and mixed by Miller and Alasdair MacKenzie. It follows In the Throes, his critically acclaimed 2023 collaboration with his wife Julie Miller and features appearances by Emmylou Harris, The War & Treaty, Lee Ann Womack, Shawn Colvin, Ashley Monroe, Elizabeth Cook, Jim Lauderdale, Dan Penn, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams.
The core band on Buddy Miller includes Fred Eltringham (drums, percussion), Viktor Krauss (bass), Tim Lauer (keyboards), and Steve Fishell (pedal steel), with frequent appearances from The McCrary Sisters. Together, they have made music filled with country soul, plus a sprinkling of early rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, and anything that comes straight from the heart.
The first single released from the album can be heard here: “Don’t Look Back” which features Dan Penn, the legendary co-writer of “The Dark End of the Street,” “I’m Your Puppet,” “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” and countless other classics. Miller says “I met Dan around 1994 when he came over to look at a Studer 24-track tape machine I’d listed in the PennySaver. He passed on the Studer, but I gained a hero as a friend. He sang on my first record and I played a few sessions at his studio. His songs have been recorded by Aretha, Otis, Janis, Linda Ronstadt, and so many more — and his singing is as soulful as ever.”
The songs on Buddy Miller came from those same places, and Miller will admit to having started with 50-odd possibilities, before the winnowing, which yields: an early Temptations hit, a Jesse Winchester track, plus the delightful “Till the Wheels Come Off,” which Ashley Monroe, Elizabeth Cook, Angaleena Presley, and Meg McRee wrote about Buddy and his wife Julie. “The intention was to make a country soul record,” Miller says, “but then I kept running into songs Julie had written that I wanted to put in.” So a record with soul, then. Written and performed with an awareness of time, and of its passing.
Buddy Miller is Americana Music royalty and a Grammy Award Winner. Miller has worked with Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, John Fogerty, Solomon Burke, Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Frank Black of the Pixies, Steve Earle, and countless others. He also joined T Bone Burnett on the musical team for the hit ABC-TV series Nashville, and following Burnett’s departure, became the show’s Executive Music Producer. Buddy also has scores of gold and platinum records from artists who have recorded his songs written with his wife, the great Julie Miller, and is also the longtime co-host of The Buddy & Jim Show on SiriusXM alongside his friend, Jim Lauderdale.
Buddy Miller will be available across streaming platforms, compact disc, and standard black vinyl. Limited “Ultra Clear” LP and compact disc editions autographed by Buddy Miller will be available via Independent Retailers and are also available for pre-order NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.