Revisiting and old recording with Long Time Gone Band made current by the War in Ukraine

Find the Cost of Freedom (CSN & Y Cover) Gary Robert Miller & Long Time Gone Band

The ghost of Christmas Past.  So glad we recorded these songs while Al Bethune was with us.  Larry Butterton and I sing with Al.  Cliff Mitchell plays lead guitar, Mike Harris is on bass and Chris Kennedy plays drums and introduces song.

Zat You Santa Claus?

Christmas Peak

Zat You Santa Claus - Gary Robert Miller & Peak City Blues Project

Jordan Lake Swimmers do this classic traditional blues

Come on in the Water's Fine

If the River Was Whiskey - Jordan Lake Swimmers

What if an Old Time String Band played today?  Jordan Lake Swimmers answers this question.

Come in in the Water's Fine

Across the Mando-Banjo Universe - Jordan Lake Swimmers

I've Just Seen The Face (2) - MVOC

Kiss Me (2) MO

Dreamer - Gary Robert Miller & the Jordan Lake Swimmers

Tupelo Honey - Jordan Lake Swimmers

WEDDING MARCH - Jordan Lake Swimmers

Featuring Gary Black on Vocals and Guitar

Coming Down Off the Mountain - Jordan Lake Swimmers

Our Christmas Version of John Gorka's Christmas Bells

Christmas Bells - Jordan Lake Swimmers

Here we are playing a tribute to Apex, NC which was the highest point on the Chatham Train Line and got it's name from that.  Trains have always been and important part of Apex.  This song was written by the highly talented Fred Eaglesmith

I Like Trains - Live at Eva Perry Library - Gary Robert Miller & the Jordan Lake Swimmers

Taxman 2019  - Gary Robert Miller & the Jordan Lake Swimmers

While biking up Big Woods road in Chatham County I was falling behind the pack on a sweaty August day.  I thought I could just die here. Then they announced the Chatham Park Development and the possibility of fracking just across the river.  This song is about the history and development pressures that will rapidly changed the beloved rural character of Chatham County.

Songs About North Carolina

Bury Me in Chatham County - Radio Version - Gary Robert Miller - Apex Peak Music

Things are always more difficult than you expect.

Peakin' Around

Devil's in the Details - Gary Miller & Peak City Blues Project

I have used this song to open worship at my church

Room with a View

Spiritual Place - Gary Miller All Instruments

Having a Peak Christmas Season

Merry Christmas Baby - Gary Robert Miller & Peak City Blues Project with Connie Carringer

Staring at 4 walls with STAY AT HOME rules, your mind starts playing strange games with your artificial intelligence device.  Releasing this on April Fool's Day seems most appropriate.  Maybe it should be called Alexa Fools.

This song is about a love-hate relationship with Alexa

Alex

Alexa - Gary Robert Miller -Apex Peak Music

We did a Porsche shoot and just setting in a Porsche makes you want to sing. Like how could I tell my wife I needed a $110,116 car?

Need for Speed - Gary Robert Miller and Peak City Blues Project

My protest song about the Arab Spring turned into a have vs. have not protest.  How many protest songs have tweeting in them?  Performed with Peak City Blues Project.
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Summer of Discontent - Gary Robert Miller & Peak City Blues Project

I consider this a country song in the style of Steve Earle. One of my assessments said they liked the chorus as a sing along, so I added banjo, just like Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger. Hootenany!

Revolution Gonna Come - Gary Miller All Instruments

Mary Did You Know, Instrumental for Christmas

Mary Did You Know - Gary Robert Miller - Apex Peak Music

Gary Robert Miller is a cousin of Ola Belle Campbell Reed.  She was from Ashe County, NC and played with Gary's step granddad, Elmer Elliot in a mountain string band called the North Carolina Ridge Runners.  Gary spent his early years denying the power of mountain music in the foothills of North Carolina outside Winston-Salem knocking around in bands like The Missing Links, The Individuals and the Vandals.  They were below AWBs.  After many years of “jumping around the bonus room” with an electric guitar Gary returned to acoustic music being drawn back in through the church. “Once you have time to consider things, singing to God is the most important thing you can do.”  Then came the bluegrass period where Gary sang and played reso guitar with More Grass For Less, later called the Riverwood Life Boys. “We had the privilege to play about every school auditorium in Johnston County.” Today Gary is blessed to sing and play at area churches and for Alpha ministry events.  He has converted that bonus room into recording studio and has been fortunate enough to work and record with impressive up and coming talented musicians like Kristen Scott, Ian Verhaeghe (aka the Haitian artist known as Frank-Marc) and Seth Pierce. Living in Apex he manages a music business called Apex Peak Music.  You can hear Gary's work in other bands on Reverbnation.com by searching Peak City Blues Project, Jordan Lake Swimmers and Long Time Gone Band.

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