The 30th anniversary vinyl release of Lisa Miller's debut album Quiet Girl With A Credit Card is now available for pre-order via Chapter Music on Bandcamp. Click here to order yours now!! Here is what Terry Reilly wrote about the album on its release: Quiet Girl With A Credit Card is that very album you put on your player to let the repeat button do it incessant work. In fact, the more you listen, the more you are converted. When country music mixes tradition with a little edge, the results are invariably stupendous. But Lisa Miller has taste and style. Her shot at Dan Penn's powerful A Woman left Lonely is a case in point. Its very own soul kind of feeling, if you will, gently rises like a determined vehicle climbing a damp, winding mountain road. You can feel a shiver and an eventual imminent relief which is heightened by sinuous pedal steel. The edge is tougher and more instrumentally defined on her own False Waltz with its inveigling sinister blues ambience where a creeping voodoo rhythm is punctuated by chipping rhythm guitar. Miller cuts through this superbly eerie canvas and marks her first album with a ripping uppercut. In an age when country music has become as safe as milk, Lisa Miller and that select band of performers like Iris DeMent and Billy Joe Shaver who defy this conservatism, do the music a service by stripping away it blandness. And there is nothing bland about Quiet Girl with a Credit Card. It's daring, different and teeming with integrity.
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