Search - Mikki Brisk :: Distance and Miles

All of her homes and travels have given Mikki a pretty good understanding of what the country has to offer. This understanding, these travels, inform her songs ? from the opportunities offered and promise sought in "The Last American," to the Southwestern and Cajun inflections in "Desert Song" and "Me and Matthew." A pure country weeper like "We Don't Matter" can only come from her Georgia blood, and "I Really Need" has the flavor of whiskey, true to the spirit of honky-tonk ballads of times gone by. There's maybe even a little Hollywood in the declaration of independence that is her closing song, "Red Boots." "Distance and Miles" is more than simply the name of Mikki Brisk's debut CD, more than the literal lines on the map she's drawn as she moved around the country. It's a description of the creative and emotional journey she's taken to be able to tell her stories, to find her voice, and to put her heart and her soul on the line through her words and music.