Words and Music (Roger Miller album)

After releasing material during the two-day session that brought forth his debut album, some of the tracks from The Return of Roger Miller and The 3rd Time Around, Miller's recordings from the session as well as others between 1964 and 1965 were included on this album. Miller wrote all of the songs on the album, with the exception of "Heartbreak Hotel." Curly Putman received songwriting credit along with Miller on the track "Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit."[6]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[7]

Allmusic gave the album four stars. It labeled the first track, "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died," as one of Miller's "weirdest song[s]", calling it "an attack of pure dementia". But the second track, "Husbands and Wives" was lauded for being "clever" and "saying so much with so few words". The song was also noted in the publication for setting the tone of the album. The necessity of the seventh track, "Heartbreak Hotel" was questioned by the reviewer, and cited as a precursor to Miller's "laziness" in his later recordings. However, Allmusic stated that Miller still built "the album to a strong climax purely through emotion and sentimentality".[6]

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• Ray Edenton – Guitar
• Buddy Harman – Drums
• Roger Miller – Vocals, guitar
• Bob Moore – Bass
• Jerry Kennedy - guitar
• Thumbs Carllile - guitar