lyrics:

you better be careful when you talk like that
you just might get exactly what you're looking for

I ain't gonna hang around to watch you crash
or watch you wind up all in pieces on the floor

If I could change your mind
turn back time
save it all from ruin

If I could walk through walls
break your fall
that's what I'd be doing

But I'm only human

God knows I've made mistakes I'm sorry for
I've left some wounds that even time might not heal

I'd cut a few frames if I could change the past
I'm still looking for a time machine to steal

If I could change your mind
turn back time
save it all from ruin

If I could walk through walls
break your fall
that's what I'd be doing

But I'm only human

Did you think I was invincible?
you say that you need me
but look how you treat me
maybe it's best that you just go ahead and leave me be

If I could change your mind
turn back time
save our love from ruin

If I could walk through walls
break your fall
that's what I'd be doing

But I'm only human

musicians:
Mike Miz- electric & acoustic guitar/vocals
Sadler Vaden- electric guitar
Laur Joamets- slide guitar
Michael Borowski- piano & organ
Jon Radford- drums
Ted Pecchio- bass
Jared Reynolds- vocals

Only Human (w/ Sadler Vaden)

lyrics:

maybe I'm just crazy, acting like a fool 
making such a mess of everything that I do
always robbing Peter cause I'm too far in to Paul
I hustle and I hustle with my back against the wall

there's got to be a silver lining
some kind of better way

they say that somethings better than nothing
but there's a couple things that I can't figure out
how come you can't keep a hound dog from running
when he's got food and water right there at the house

it's been heartbreaking, sad, and confusing
I run myself ragged goin' round and around
they say when one door closes, another one opens
but it's hell in the hallway for now

something's got to give, I think it might be time to change
and the way I got it figured out, I don't know a thing
half the time I'm lying, half the time I just can't tell
who's that standing in the mirror when I'm looking at myself 

but it don't matter what I think
it's only what I do

they say that somethings better than nothing
but there's a couple things that I can't figure out
how come you can't keep a hound dog from running
when he's got food and water right there at the house

it's been heartbreaking, sad, and confusing
I run myself ragged goin' round and around
they say when one door closes, another one opens
but it's hell in the hallway..

when all the kids are acting
like they wanna be your friend
but they talk about you
when you turn your back around to them

they're telling secrets in the stairwells
and rumors in the halls
and the things they say about you
just ain't true at all  

they say that somethings better than nothing
but there's a couple things that I can't figure out
how come you can't keep a hound dog from running
when he's got food and water right there at the house

it's been heartbreaking, sad, and confusing
I run myself ragged goin' round and around
they say when one door closes, another one opens
but it's hell in the hallway for now

musicians:

Mike Miz- electric & acoustic guitar/vocals
Laur Joamets- electric guitar
Michael Borowski- keys
Jon Radford- drums & percussion
Ted Pecchio- bass
Nicki Bluhm- vocals

Hell in the Hallway (w/ Nicki Bluhm)

lyrics:

There's a place I know
I used to go when I was young
where the road winds down beside a silver stream
where I dreamed a dream, and felt so free
in that place I know, I used to go when I was young

I drove back to that memory just yesterday
passed the empty lot where we'd go after school and play
I heard St. Ann's bell ring, thought about the songs we used to sing
when I drove back to that memory, just yesterday

I'm trying to find a decent reason why
I got so far out of line
Looking for a way to make things right
maybe find forgiveness in my Father's eyes
and if every heartache was just a lesson
to help me understand
then I would understand

somewhere out there on the back roads
as these old memories flood my mind
half was scared, half way excited, 
cause I don't know what I might find
is this the dream I dreamed? 
of how it all might be
somewhere on the backroads
as these memories flood my mind

I'm trying to find a decent reason why
I got so far out of line
Looking for a way to make things right
maybe find forgiveness in my father's eyes
and if every heartache was just a lesson
to help me understand
then I would understand

there's no need for me to regret
the things I didn't know
there's no need to go on
holding on to such a heavy load 
I think it's time for letting go

I'm trying to find a decent reason why
I got so far out of line
Looking for a way to make things right
maybe find forgiveness in my father's eyes
and if every heartache was just a lesson
to help me understand
then I would understand
so help me understand
so I can understand 

musicians:

Mike Miz- acoustic guitar/vocals
Laur Joamets- electric guitar
Michael Borowski- piano
Ted Pecchio- bass
Jon Radford- drums
Eric Robert- organ

Understand

lyrics:

I've been fooled by my own thoughts of things
thought that I knew damn near everything
turns out I was wrong about it all

so I set sail to wander blue
find out some things I wish I knew
it's been funny, sad, and sometimes tragic too

Imagine your life as an epic of sound
let loose by you, hell bent and God bound
strike up the band and call out a tune
let the melody sing- pure, simple, and true
I got no destination, just wander blue

it could be that I'll never know
just which way the road would go 
I could wind up lost, and think I'm really found

and when I thought I really found the way
the truth came up as if to say-
the high road ain't for faint hearted clowns

Imagine your life as an epic of sound
let loose by you, hell bent and God bound
strike up the band and call out a tune
let the melody sing- pure, simple, and true
I got no destination, just wander blue

musicians:
Mike Miz- electric guitar/vocals
Laur Joamets- 12 string electric guitar
Ted Pecchio- bass
Jon Radford- drums
Michael Borowski- piano
Jano Rix- organ
CJ Colandrea- pedal steel

Wander Blue

lyrics:

there's only a ghost left of main street 
and a mean old sky pressing down
for five long days every single week
I'm getting eaten alive by this town

and the doorways' a mouth of a monster
made of bricks piled up to the sky
with windows like eyes that are haunted
the factory wants you for life

but my body refuses the burden
and my spirit rebels to the bone
it ain't been in vain, all of this hurtin'
hand of the sculptor, I am the stone

so do with me what you're gonna do with me..

the crashing and burning is over
but the dust ain't quite settled down
there might be a few things I could have told her
and it all would be different now

but I sell off anything of any value
and I settle some emotional debt
I don't let on to where I might be going
don't know how far it is I might get

and my body refuses the burden
and my spirit rebels to the bone
it ain't been in vain, all of this hurting
hand of the sculptor, I am the stone

so do with me what you're gonna do with me..

now I'm back up against the ropes again
and I might have to swing my way out
but it ain't no big thing, cause life's gonna hurt you
hand of the sculptor, I am the stone

so do with me what you're gonna do with me..

musicians:

Mike Miz- electric guitar/vocals
Laur Joamets- slide guitar
Ted Pecchio- bass 
Jon Radford- drums 
Michael Borowski- piano 
Jano Rix- organ
Amber Woodhouse- vocals

Hand of the Sculptor

lyrics:

Six different ways from Sunday
it's been seven different kinds of hell
I've been in eight different states in the last nine days
maybe Tennessee will suit me well

I'm still on paper up in Essex County
they threw the book at me when I was there
now I curse that mean old river
ain't never going back across the Delaware

I know a pretty girl down in Georgia
so I'm going down south and feeling free
gonna drive right through the night and catch the morning
cause I finally figured out where it is that I need to be

I need to be somewhere in a good song
running my fingers up and down the strings
somewhere out there singing from my heart strong
I need to be true to myself and true to the melody

just the other day it occurred to me
I might be missing her more than I thought
half the reasons she was giving, the way that I was living
should have known that I was gonna get caught

I made one bad decision on a two timing lover
I was three sheets gone to the wind
now I'm forever in a fix about a five dollar bill
got me six ways screwed up again

might run off to California
hell, I might wind up on the silver screen
man I'm just ramblin' I don't mean to bore ya
but I finally figured out where it is that I need to be

I need to be somewhere in a good song
running my fingers up and down the strings
somewhere out there singing from my heart strong
I need to be true to myself and true to the melody

maybe there might could be a slim chance
it all works out and I get away clean
ain't even gonna stick around for the last dance
cause I finally figured out where it is that I need to be

I need to be somewhere in a good song
running my fingers up and down the strings
somewhere out there singing from my heart strong
I need to be true to myself and true to the melody

musicians:
Mike Miz- acoustic & electric guitar/vocals
Sol Philcox-Littlefield- slide guitar
Laur Joamets- 12 string electric guitar
Ted Pecchio- bass
Jon Radford- drums
Eric Robert- piano & organ
Jared Reynolds- vocals
Leif Shires- trumpet
Chris Bellamy- tenor & baritone sax
Josh Scalf- trombone

written by Michael P. Mizwinski & Boo Ray

Six Ways from Sunday

Tracked live at the Cabin Studio in East Nashville TN. Featuring Laur Joamets on slide. Produced and mixed by Matty Alger. Mastering by Pete Lyman at infrasonic Sound. Written by Michael P. Mizwinski.

Heroes

Recorded live to 2 inch tape at the Studio Nashville March 15,16,17 2021.
engineered, mixed, and mastered by Brook Sutton*
produced by Mike Miz, Brook Sutton, and Ted Pecchio

additional overdubs recorded at:
LFT studios Nashville, TN
engineer- Chris Condon

album bio:

Mike Miz found just what he was looking for when he moved to Nashville in pursuit of the highest-level song-craft and guitar playing a little over 3 years ago. Hailing from Northeast Pennsylvania, Mike’s been a regular fixture on the Northeast
jam scene corridor from Philadelphia, to Asbury Park, to NYC for the last decade, playing festivals, clubs, and songwriter joints, (over 200 shows a year) opening for Jakob Dylan, Jason Isbell, Lukas Nelson, Derek Trucks, America, Shawn Colvin, Railroad Earth, Blues Traveler, Jackie Greene, Southside Johnny and many more.

Mike’s fierce and unique talent attracted Nashville pillars Ted Pecchio, Laur Joamets, Jon Radford and engineer/producer Brook Sutton. They assembled a top-notch band around Mike and recorded 11 new original songs live to tape in 3 days at the Wood Brother's studio in West Nashville.

This new record is a group of songs that tell the true story of a 15 year battle with heroin addiction, love lost, a stint in Newark’s Essex County Jail, and the ultimate redemption of a man who never gave up.

The eclectic all-star cast of players who joined the recording sessions include Sadler Vaden, Nicki Bluhm, Jano Rix (Wood Brothers), Amber Woodhouse and more.

It's a special thing when an artist connects with just the right producer and players, and the performances of a hot band are captured like lightning in a bottle. Greater than the sum of parts, Mike’s rockin’ new record is a songwriter’s champion and audiophile’s delight.

Only Human

Less Than Paper Thin MP3

Understand MP3

Only Human MP3

Recorded at The Studio Nashville with additional overdubs at the Cabin Studio East Nashville. 
Laur Joamets - classical and slide guitar
Jano Rix - piano and percussion
Brook Sutton - upright bass
Mixed by Matty Alger
Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic sound

Someone Else’s Shoes

recorded at The Studio Nashville 
+additional overdubs at The Cabin Studio 
Upright bass: Brook Sutton
Piano & percussion: Jano Rix 
Slide & nylon string: Laur Joamets 
Mixed by: Matty Alger
Mastered by: Pete Lyman at @infrasonicsound 
artwork by: @brandon_jesse_ at @nashville_blacklist
 Co-✍️ with: Boo Ray

Someone Else's Shoes

Out at the Lake

End Of Your Rope

Birds Don't Sing

Blame it on a Broken Heart

Adios

Trading Seats (on a Sinking Ship)

Emerald, Green, and Blue

The Rope Swing

No Good Explanation

Tornado Mind

I Sleep Better

I Got a Name

featuring special guest Jon Graboff of Ryan Adams and the Cardinals

October Skies

featuring special guest Buddy Cage on pedal steel

Dopesick Blues

Mike Mizwinski, better known simply as Mike Miz is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Northeast Pennsylvania known for soulful and energetic live performances. Mike performs over 200 shows a year and has had the privilege to open for Jason Isbell, Jakob Dylan, Blues Traveler, Derek Trucks, America, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Lukas Nelson, Shawn Colvin, Leon Russell, Chris Isaak, Peter Wolf, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Jackie Greene, Railroad Earth. His 2021 single ‘Virginia’ was called “a monster of a jam rocker” by Rolling Stone. The new album ‘Only Human’ comes out on April 14. Mike currently resides in Nashville TN.

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