Palo Duro Records

Review by Mary Jane Farmer

I’ll admit I fell down on the job in getting notes about this CD out to you sooner. The reason, I’ll also admit, is that MFN had grown so between the first time I heard them live and this production, I didn’t think it showed them off. I told producer Joshua Jones it was good, even great, but not MFN. I was wrong, I learned, after putting miles on my little car to hear Miles From Nowhere live again and again. They have grown professionally, and this CD authenticates that growth and the chemistry of the band, stemmng from their own mix of musical influences.

Produced by Jones on Shiner Records after Miles From Nowhere became their 2006 competition winner, “Bloodline” came out at least six months ago. MFN fans already have their copies. For others, go get it.

Miles From Nowhere is unique in that they combine country with a fine sense of easy listening, rock, and danceable ballads. Someone said the band is as like a huge scrambled egg, only its scrambled music. You have to listen close to determine if Merrol Ray or Adam Walker is singing lead or playing lead guitar, or if they are switching leads back and forth. Ray, Walker, and another band member, drummer Wesley Joe Malone,  penned most of the songs, with Jones providing “Queen of California” to them, never expecting to get the quality cover they gave. The fourth band member is bass guitarist Joe Allen Jordan, a steady-as-she-goes sort of musician.

“When I Get Mean” moved along the Texas Music Chart for a while, as did the title cut before it.

This, too, is distributed by Palo Duro Records, and those who don’t want to wait until the next time Miles From Nowhere plays in their area can order the CD online, www.palodurorecords.com.

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