Mama's Juke Book, by Lisa Mills

Mama's Juke Book

by Lisa Mills

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1.	Here I Am Again 03:31		buy track
2.	I Can't Stop Loving You 04:23		buy track
3.	The Awareness of Nothing 04:13		buy track
4.	Hello Darlin' 02:55		buy track
5.	You and Your Sweet Love 02:26		buy track
6.	Big Blue Diamonds 03:08		buy track
7.	Only You 03:26		buy track
8.	Together Again 02:45		buy track
9.	Lost Forever in Your Kiss 03:18		buy track
10.	It's a Matter of Time 03:36		buy track
11.	Never Been to Spain 06:02		buy track
12.	A Song of Love 02:29	lyrics	buy track
A SONG OF LOVE Jan Powell, Lisa Mills C You’re married to another Am I know you can never be mine G But I love you, my darling F C Til the end of time Em Til the end of time F C You’ll always be mine Am C Oh, it’s you I’m thinking of F C When I sing this song of love C Song of Love, Am Of Love, F C A Song of Love. Am Just one glance at your sweet face G To me is pure heaven F The joy of knowing you love me C Is enough G Am For my short while Am Here on this Earth. C Then one day in the great beyond, G When God calls us to His Heavenly home Am He’ll look at you and me and he’ll say F “Jan, your life has just begun..” C G You see that little cabin on the hill, F That is yours forever more…. C Pure Happiness will be ours Am No more separation will come our way G You’ll be mine, my darling, F C Forevermore C Em Til the end of time F C You’ll always be mine Am Oh, it’s you I’m thinking of F C When I sing this song of love C Song of Love, Am Of Love, F C A Song of Love.

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Hidden away in my late mother’s personal belongings, there it was a tattered old Dollar General Store notebook. I was stunned when I opened it to find there, in her beautiful handwriting, page after page of song lyrics from the early 1970s, mostly country hits. She had devoted hours to writing down these precious songs for her own safekeeping, and here they were, decades later, in my hands even though she is gone.

Surprisingly, I found some of the songs I already perform in my live shows. Songs that had spoken to me as well, binding me to my mother in ways I had never quite understood until I found the notebook.

That wasn’t the only surprise. Tucked carefully among the pages was a song of her own: “A Song of Love” by Juanita Powell. The more I looked through her notebook, the more I felt her calling me to bring these songs
back to life and to explore my cultural and musical heritage.

Stripped down, spare and atmospheric, the songs on Mama’s Juke Book have been transformed from their early ‘70s mainstream country origins by being deconstructed and then reimagined with black gospel, blues, soul and jazz as the defining elements—the roots music that has shaped my sound and sensibilities as an artist. Working primarily at The Parlor Recording Studio in New Orleans with Grammy winning engineer Trina Shoemaker and a small, select group of empathetic, top-tier Southern musicians, I felt a freedom in the studio I had never before experienced. Finally, on record, I’ve captured the passion and energy I bring to my live shows along with the full, rich glory of Josephine, my 1947 Epiphone archtop guitar.

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released August 17, 2016

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Lisa Mills Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Mobile, Alabama-based Mississippi native, Lisa Mills exemplifies the deeply embedded Southern musical influences that come together in unpredictable ways with the follow-up to her internationally praised 2010 release Tempered in Fire with a new take on her 2005 album of the same name, I’m Changing mixed by Trina Shoemaker, the first woman to win the Grammy Award for album engineering (Sheryl Crow) ... more

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