Lynn Miles
Lynn Miles (born Sweetsburg, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In 20… Read Full Bio ↴Lynn Miles (born Sweetsburg, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In 2003 Miles won the Juno award for the Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year, Solo, and in 2005 she was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Awards. At the 2006 and 2011 Juno Awards she was again nominated for the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year, the latter being for her 2010 album Fall for Beauty.
Born outside Montreal, in Sweetsburg, Quebec, Miles grew up in a musical home. Her father played the harmonica and listened to his jazz collection while her mother was a lover of both opera and country music. During her elementary school years, Miles learned guitar, violin, flute and piano. She began performing in public at around the age of sixteen and when she was in her early twenties she studied with an opera singer to strengthen her voice and enrolled for a time at Carleton University in Ottawa where she studied classical music history and theory. Years later, Miles put this training to good use while serving as a voice teacher at the Ottawa Folklore Center. While at the center, she taught voice to many students including a then fourteen-year-old Alanis Morrisette. The lessons came just prior to the making of Morrisette’s first album.
Though Miles had been writing her own songs since the age of 10, she didn’t end up recording any of her own material until 1987 when she cut 9 original compositions for a demo at Happyrock Studio in Ottawa. An avid reader and music-lover, those early recordings were inspired by the books she loved to read, and the music she listened to on the radio.
In the early 1990s Miles released a self-titled album plus an additional recording called Chalk This One Up to the Moon. Her composition "Remembrance Day" became part of a nationally-televised video created by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Miles' 1996 album, Slightly Haunted received favorable reviews in the New York Times and was a Billboard Top Ten Pick of the Year.
In 1997 she released the album Night in a Strange Town.
Miles' reunited with collaborator and guitarist Ian LeFeuvre for her 2001 album, Unravel, which won the 2003 Juno award for Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo.
Miles was nominated in 2005 for a Canadian Folk Music Awards.
In 2006 Miles recorded the album Love Sweet Love which was released on Red House Records characterized as a "road album". It was recorded with guitarist Ian LeFeuvre and Keith Glass, drummer Peter Von Althen, John Geggiem on bass, James Stephens on violin. It was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award.
In 2008 and 2009 Miles re-recorded her earlier work in a two volume, songbook called Black Flowers.
Her 2010 album Fall for Beauty was nominated at the Juno Awards of 2011 in the Roots & Traditional Album of the year category.
Born outside Montreal, in Sweetsburg, Quebec, Miles grew up in a musical home. Her father played the harmonica and listened to his jazz collection while her mother was a lover of both opera and country music. During her elementary school years, Miles learned guitar, violin, flute and piano. She began performing in public at around the age of sixteen and when she was in her early twenties she studied with an opera singer to strengthen her voice and enrolled for a time at Carleton University in Ottawa where she studied classical music history and theory. Years later, Miles put this training to good use while serving as a voice teacher at the Ottawa Folklore Center. While at the center, she taught voice to many students including a then fourteen-year-old Alanis Morrisette. The lessons came just prior to the making of Morrisette’s first album.
Though Miles had been writing her own songs since the age of 10, she didn’t end up recording any of her own material until 1987 when she cut 9 original compositions for a demo at Happyrock Studio in Ottawa. An avid reader and music-lover, those early recordings were inspired by the books she loved to read, and the music she listened to on the radio.
In the early 1990s Miles released a self-titled album plus an additional recording called Chalk This One Up to the Moon. Her composition "Remembrance Day" became part of a nationally-televised video created by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Miles' 1996 album, Slightly Haunted received favorable reviews in the New York Times and was a Billboard Top Ten Pick of the Year.
In 1997 she released the album Night in a Strange Town.
Miles' reunited with collaborator and guitarist Ian LeFeuvre for her 2001 album, Unravel, which won the 2003 Juno award for Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo.
Miles was nominated in 2005 for a Canadian Folk Music Awards.
In 2006 Miles recorded the album Love Sweet Love which was released on Red House Records characterized as a "road album". It was recorded with guitarist Ian LeFeuvre and Keith Glass, drummer Peter Von Althen, John Geggiem on bass, James Stephens on violin. It was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award.
In 2008 and 2009 Miles re-recorded her earlier work in a two volume, songbook called Black Flowers.
Her 2010 album Fall for Beauty was nominated at the Juno Awards of 2011 in the Roots & Traditional Album of the year category.
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Lynn Miles Lyrics
Anywhere I'm so tired of this town And this town is tired…
Black Flowers I live beside This dark coal mine The whistle blows Everyday…
Brave Parade It's ok I'm not afraid Of marching in this brave parade Wi…
Flames Of Love Show me your mystery, show me your shame Tell me your…
I Know It Was Love Well I know it was love But love can be a…
I Loved a Cowboy I loved a cowboy I loved his cowboy ways I loved his…
I'm Still Here And you (Am7)wonder (D7sus4)why (G)You flew so (Em)high And …
I'm The Moon This is a cheap hotel it's cold in this room through the…
Last Night Last night I watched the first snow come floating down And…
Loneliness Loneliness is an envelope you can seal yourself into And…
Long Time Coming I remember how the sky looked On the first day…
Love Doesn't Hurt Love might make you want to sing Make you rethink everything…
Love Sweet Love Well I know it was love But love can be a…
Middle of the Night Like a poet wants pain Like a bride begs a kiss Like…
Never Coming Back The tom cats and the babies are howling at the moon the…
Now I Understand Never knew the world was such a lonely place Never thought…
Rust Every line in your face is a road you've been…
Sunset Blvd There's lithium in the sunset There's rats in the trees An…
Surrender Dorothy A yellow road, pair of new shoes No comfort, no laughs,…
The Ghost of Deadlock In this smoky bar Trouble's not too far Away If it would…
This Heart That Lives in Winter There is a tundra There is the snow There is a…
Unravel I've been livin' out here by the hydro towers Tryin' to…
We'll Look for Stars We will wax and wane just like the moon And in…
Wrong This love has (C)made you a hunter It has (Em)made you…
You The tom cats and the babies are howling at the moon the…
You Don't Love Me Anymore I saw you at the party, I tried to catch…
You're Not Coming Back The tom cats and the babies are howling at the moon the…