Sweet Talk and Good Lies is the fifth album by Heather Myles

Heather Myles

Heather Myles is a country singer. Her honky tonk singing is in the Bakersfield sound-style and has been likened by many to that of Dwight Yoakam. She has had her songs featured in a major feature film....

. Highlights include the title song, "Sweet Talk and Good Lies, " "Nashville's Gone Hollywood," in which she excoriates the current blandness of the country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 scene, and "Little Chapel," a duet with fellow honky-tonker Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...

. "One and Only Lover" sounds like something straight out of Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...

's catalog, and she does decent covers of old standards "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Cry Me a River," although they are probably the least country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

-sounding tunes on the album (and the only ones that Myles did not write herself).

Track listing

1. "Sweet Talk and Good Lies" (Heather Myles) – 3:12
2. "Nashville's Gone Hollywood" (Heather Myles) – 2:57
3. "Never Had a Broken Heart" (Heather Myles) – 4:13
4. "One Man Woman Again" (Heather Myles) – 3:04
5. "Little Chapel" [with Dwight Yoakam] (Heather Myles) – 2:57
6. "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb
   Jimmy Webb
   Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...
   
   ) – 2:48
7. "One and Only Lover" (Heather Myles) – 2:31
8. "Big Cars" (Heather Myles) – 3:30
9. "The Love You Left Behind" (Heather Myles) – 3:11
10. "If the Truth Hurts" (Heather Myles) – 2:21
11. "Homewrecker Blues" (Heather Myles) – 2:48
12. "Sweet Little Dangerous" (Heather Myles) – 3:01
13. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton
    Arthur Hamilton
    Arthur Hamilton is an American songwriter, who is best known for writing the song "Cry Me a River", first published in 1953 and most famously recorded by Julie London in 1955....
    
    ) – 2:57