The 3rd Time Around – ROGER MILLER***

Engine Engine No. 9/This Town/The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me/Water Dog/I’ll Pick Up My Heart/Swiss Maid/It Just Happened That Way/The Good Old Days/One Dyin’ & Buryin’/Kansas City Star/Big Harlan Taylor/ Swing Low Swingin’ Chariot

The 3rd Time Around was the last major hit album of original material from idiosyncratic country singer Roger Miller. Contains the US No. 7 hit single Engine Engine No. 9. Apart from the hits, many of his songs are likely to be an acquired taste for most people. (US:13)

"At least half of the dozen titles here are among his most famous, and every song is written by him."

"What a range of themes and characters are presented, from the little Swiss Maid to Big Harlan Taylor and the sad sap who sobs The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me, Miller gets so much out of so little."

"Every track seems as if an extra effort was made to make it sound fresh and different. Miller is indeed fortunate that such an individualistic style as he had was allowed plenty of breathing room."

"Roger Miller was unique. Not just because he sings and writes about things that the average singer/songwriter doesn't write about; it's because he does it in a way that everyone can understand; young, old it doesn't matter. He is definitely a unique artist."

"I would guess that this man's work would have limited appeal. It's crazy and it's country and not a lot of people like either one, but especially when you put the two together. But there was a fire in this man that you can feel."

"After being introduced to Roger over the last year, appreciating new music is even more difficult than it was before. There is so little else out there in the world of creative works that captures this wide spectrum of human emotion and thought."