Written in Chalk
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Written in Chalk is an album by Buddy
Buddy Miller
Buddy Miller is a country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee...

 and Julie Miller
Julie Miller
Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...

, released in 2009. It won numerous awards at the 2009 Americana Music Association
Americana Music Association
The Americana Music Association is a trade organization developed to provide professional support and to promote awareness of Americana music. Toward these ends the organization works with artists, radio stations, record labels, publishers, and others to create networking opportunities and to...

 awards: Album of the Year and the song "Chalk" won the Song of the Year. Buddy Miller won Artist of the Year and the duo won Duo/Group of the Year.

Track listing

  • All songs by Julie Miller unless otherwise noted.
  1. "Ellis County" – 3:51
  2. "Gasoline and Matches" (Julie Miller, Buddy Miller)– 3:14
  3. "Don't Say Goodbye"– 5:10
  4. "What You Gonna Do Leroy" (Mel Tillis
    Mel Tillis
    Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....

    )3:45
  5. "Long Time" – 4:13
  6. "One Part, Two Part" (Dee Ervin)– 3:43
  7. "Chalk" – 3:40
  8. "Everytime We Say Goodbye" – 4:34
  9. "Hush, Sorrow" – 4:02
  10. "Memphis Jane" – 6:16
  11. "June" – 4:15
  12. "The Selfishness in Man" (Leon Payne
    Leon Payne
    Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...

    )– 4:20

Personnel

  • Julie Miller – vocals, guitar, background vocals
  • Buddy Miller – vocals, guitar, background vocals
  • Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

     – vocals
  • Patty Griffin
    Patty Griffin
    Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with...

     – vocals
  • Robert Plant
    Robert Plant
    Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...

     – vocals ("What You Gonna Do Leroy")
  • Larry Campbell
    Larry Campbell (musician)
    Larry Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist who plays many stringed instruments in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock...

     – fiddle, mandolin
  • John Deaderick – piano, keyboards
  • Chris Donohue – bass
  • Stuart Duncan
    Stuart Duncan
    Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...

     – fiddle
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • Byron House – bass
  • Brady Blade, Jr.
    Brady Blade
    Brady L Blade Jr. is an American rock, pop and country drummer, record producer and composer, who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden....

    – drums
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Byran Owings – drums
  • Kami Lyle – trumpet
  • Matt Rollings – piano
  • Greg Morlix – lap steel guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
  • Ann McCrary – background vocals
  • Regina McCrary – background vocals

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2009 Billboard Top Heatseekers 3
Billboard Top Independent Albums 21
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