Julie Miller
There’s a reason you see so many t-shirts in Austin that read, “Burn, Nashville, Burn.” Nashville knows how to work the show-biz razzle dazzle, but aesthetic insight, a respect for history, and basic good taste are not its collective strong suite. The country-music industry completely ignored the nascent Outlaw movement in the late 1960s and early 70s, preferring to wring dry the commercial potential of saccharine, Nash Vegas dross. That left it up to artists like Waylon and Willie and Kris and Townes to emerge from the periphery and redeem country music. The same thing happened in the late 1980s and early 90s, when Nashville aped the very worst excesses of arena rock. When Garth Brooks started flying through the air on wires like a grotesque and... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Waxahachie, Texas, United States
- Genre:
- Gospel & Christian, Christian, CCM, Country, Contemporary Country
- Birthdate:
- 07/12/1956