Buddy & Julie Miller In The Throes (CD)

(New West) 12 tracks, digisleeve

After forty years of marriage, Buddy and Julie Miller have learned to welcome a song no matter how it comes, and only ask where the song takes them rather than where it comes from. There's no process, no assembly-line procedure, just an openness to those bursts of inspiration and those hours of refinement, which means their fourth album together, "In the Throes," sounds vibrant and diverse, eccentric and slightly offbeat: a deeply emotional collision of sad gospel, dusty country, cosmic blues, fun rockabilly, ecstatic R&B and anything else that comes to mind.