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Here's Jody Miller is a studio album by American singer Jody Miller. It was released in March 1977 on Epic Records and featured ten tracks. The album included country material, two of which were singles. Its most successful was the top 25 American country chart record titled "When the New Wears Off Our Love". It was Miller's final album with the Epic label and her thirteenth album overall.

Background, recording and content

Jody Miller had her most successful recording career as a country artist. In the early 1970s, she had top ten singles with "He's So Fine", "Baby I'm Yours", "There's a Party Goin' On", "Good News" and "Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home". Despite waning commercial success in the late 1970s, she continued recording for her label (Epic Records) until 1979. Her final Epic album was Here's Jody Miller. It was her first (and only) disc produced by Jerry Crutchfield. On her official website, Miller stated that Crutchfield was "a very nice person and a credit to the music business, and what a producer!"

Here's Jody Miller was recorded at Soundshop, a studio located in Nashville, Tennessee. Sessions were held in December 1976. The album consisted of ten tracks. It featured a cover of The Louvin Brothers's number one Billboard country single "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby". Remaining songs were original material. This included a song penned by Jerry Crutchfield and singer-songwriter Bill Anderson called "You Can Be Replaced". According to the liner notes, "Spread a Little Love Around" was dedicated to "Perry Walker and all the love we had for him".

Release, critical reception and singles

Here's Jody Miller was released in March 1977. It was issued by Epic Records as a vinyl LP featuring five songs on each side of the disc. It was her final Epic studio album and the thirteenth studio album of her career. It was reviewed positively by Cashbox magazine which called it "an album of the highest quality" and further commented that "Jody Miller's work gets stronger and stronger with each new release." Writers Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann named it among her best studio albums and made comparisons to the 1970s LP's by Linda Ronstadt. AllMusic gave the album three out of five stars.

Two singles were included on Here's Jody Miller. The lead release was "When the New Wears Off Our Love". It was issued by Epic Records in October 1976. It was a Miller's highest-charting single in three years, reaching a peak of 25 on the American Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. "Spread a Little Love Around" was released as the second single in March 1977. However, it only reached the number 71 position on the Billboard country chart.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Roll Me on the Water"	B. Koloc	3:26
2.	"Try Me Again"	L. Martine Jr.	2:06
3.	"You Can Be Replaced"	B. Anderson J. Crutchfield	3:13
4.	"Won't You Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)"	O. Young	2:42
5.	"Maybe I Should've Been Listenin'"	B. Rabin	3:01

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Montana Cowboy"	D. Pfeifer	2:32
2.	"Spread a Little Love Around"	R. Leigh	2:47
3.	"When the New Wears Off Our Love"	P. Craft	2:47
4.	"This Is Us"	J. Chesnut	2:36
5.	"I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby"	A. Inman	2:52

Technical personnel

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Here's Jody Miller

Bill Barnes – Album design
Lou Bradley – Recording and mixing
Jerry Crutchfield – Producer
Slick Lawson – Photography
Cheryl Purdue – Album design
Ernie Winfrey – Recording and mixing

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
North America	March 1977	Vinyl LP	Epic Records
United Kingdom	March 1977	Vinyl LP	Epic Records

References

^ "Here's Jody Miller: Jody Miller: Songs, reviews, credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
Brennan, Sandra. "Jody Miller Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ Miller, Jody (March 1977). "Here's Jody Miller (Disc Information)". Epic Records. KE-34446 (LP).
"Discography (click on 'Here's Jody Miller')". Jody Miller Music.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. various.
"Country Singles Reviews ~ Album Reviews" (PDF). Cashbox. March 19, 1977. p. 36. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
Bufwack, Mary A.; Oermann, Robert K. (2003). Finding Her Voice: The History of Women in Country Music. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. p. 373. ISBN 978-0826514325.
Miller, Jody (October 1976). ""When the New Wears Off Our Love"/"Silver and Gold" (7" vinyl single)". Epic Records. 8-50304.
Miller, Jody (March 1977). ""Spread a Little Love Around"/"Montana Country" (7" vinyl single)". Epic Records. 8-50360.
Miller, Jody (March 1977). "Here's Jody Miller (United Kingdom version)". Epic Records. EPC-81975 (LP).

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Discography
Studio albums	Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe (1963) Queen of the House (1965) Home of the Brave (1965) Jody Miller Sings the Great Hits of Buck Owens (1966) The Nashville Sound of Jody Miller (1968) Look at Mine (1970) He's So Fine (1971) There's a Party Goin' On (1972) Good News! (1973) House of the Rising Sun (1974) Country Girl (1975) Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1976) Here's Jody Miller (1977)
Singles	"Queen of the House" "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" "Home of the Brave" "Long Black Limousine" "Look at Mine" "If You Think I Love You Now (I've Just Started)" "He's So Fine" "Baby I'm Yours" "Be My Baby" "Let's All Go Down to the River" (with Johnny Paycheck) "There's a Party Goin' On" "To Know Him Is to Love Him" "Good News" "Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home" "Don't Take It Away" "When the New Wears Off Our Love" "Another Lonely Night" "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me"

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