Sweet Talk and Good Lies

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Sweet Talk and Good Lies
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Studio album by Heather Myles
Released 2002
Genre Country
Label Rounder Records
Producer Michael Dumas and Heather Myles
Heather Myles chronology
Highways and Honky Tonks
(1998)
Sweet Talk and Good Lies
(2002)

Sweet Talk and Good Lies is the fifth album by Heather Myles. Highlights include the title song, "Sweet Talk and Good Lies, " "Nashville's Gone Hollywood," in which she excoriates the current blandness of the country music scene, and "Little Chapel," a duet with fellow honky-tonker Dwight Yoakam. "One and Only Lover" sounds like something straight out of Buddy Holly's catalog, and she does decent covers of old standards "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Cry Me a River," although they are probably the least country-sounding tunes on the album (and the only ones that Myles did not write herself).

Heather Myles is a country music singer. Her honky tonk singing is in the Bakersfield sound-style and has been likened by many to that of Dwight Yoakam. She has had her songs featured in a major feature film.

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Dwight Yoakam American singer

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, known for his pioneering style of country music. First becoming popular in the mid-1980s, Yoakam has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple-platinum This Time.

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Talk and Good Lies" (Heather Myles) – 3:12
  2. "Nashville's Gone Hollywood" (Heather Myles) – 2:57
  3. "Never Had a Broken Heart" (Heather Myles) – 4:13
  4. "One Man Woman Again" (Heather Myles) – 3:04
  5. "Little Chapel" [with Dwight Yoakam] (Heather Myles) – 2:57
  6. "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:48
  7. "One and Only Lover" (Heather Myles) – 2:31
  8. "Big Cars" (Heather Myles) – 3:30
  9. "The Love You Left Behind" (Heather Myles) – 3:11
  10. "If the Truth Hurts" (Heather Myles) – 2:21
  11. "Homewrecker Blues" (Heather Myles) – 2:48
  12. "Sweet Little Dangerous" (Heather Myles) – 3:01
  13. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:57

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