Lisa Dawn Miller - Fly Away Review
by Dan MacIntosh
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Lisa Dawn Miller's Fly Away release is like a vocal blast from the past. It was around the time of Bob Dylan's '60s entry into the music world that singers began to almost exclusively write their own songs. Yet Miller is a singer, but hardly a writer. Fortunately, she's a fine singer.
Much of this CD's material reminds me of old Barbara Streisand albums where she would mix and match popular songs with older standards. Fly Away includes "Someone Like You", which is taken from the musical Jekyll & Hyde, and "For Good" from Wicked. But then, it also finds room for Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" and that old favorite, "Over The Rainbow".
Miller is the daughter of Ron Miller, the Motown songwriter who wrote "For Once In My Life" among others. So naturally, the younger Miller draws heartily upon her dad's work, as six of these songs include her father's words.
Unlike days of old, where record labels were nearly all-powerful, Fly Away is also a truly independent release. Miller produced it herself and released it on her own label. Now Barbara Streisand cannot make that claim about her musical career!
For those with the desire to fly away in a time machine, to that musical era before rock & roll took over, Lisa Dawn Miller gives wings to a nearly forgotten period in pop music's past.
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