Buddy Miller | Artist
Steven Paul "Buddy" Miller is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer born 1952 in Fairborn Ohio. Miller, who has won twelve Americana Music Honors & Awards and was nominated for seven others, is currently living in Nashville, Tennessee and married to singer-songwriter Julie Miller. A roots music renaissance man, Buddy Miller has made a name for himself as a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer, and he's worked with an impressive array of artists as well as creating a well-regarded body of work on his own. As a guitarist, Miller's work is rich, soulful, and evocative, more focused on atmosphere and tone than dazzling the listener with technique, while his songwriting offers an intimate glimpse into many sides of the human experience, and his production work lends a natural sound to the recordings that's honest but casts the artists in their best light. During the 1970s Miller was in a country-rock band called the Desperate Men, which played in the New Jersey area, including clubs like Stanhope House, Cuss From Hoe and others. In 1975, he moved to Austin, Texas and played rockabilly in Ray Campi's band. In 1980, he moved to NYC and formed the Buddy Miller Band, which included singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar. He also performed with Jim Lauderdale and Larry Campbell. Each Sunday Miller performed in Kinky Friedman's band at the Lone Star Cafe. Miller moved to Nashville in the 1990s, after a stint in Los Angeles. He worked on recording sessions as a guitar player and vocalist, and began producing his own records in his living room studio named Dogtown. His debut album The Man on the Moon, accredited to Buddy Miller and the Sacred Cows, showed promise, but that was soon eclipsed by his next album, the excellent Your Love and Other Lies, also released in 1995. Miller has gone on to release nine studio solo albums, plus a further four albums with his wife, billed as Buddy and Julie Miller. Standout albums include Your Love and Other Lies (1995), Cruel Moon (1999), Midnight and Lonesome (2002), Universal United House of Prayer (2004), The Majestic Silver Strings (2011), Jim & Buddy (2012), Cayamo Sessions at Sea (2016), Buddy and Julie Miller (2001) and, also with Julie Miller, Written in Chalk (2001). Miller has recorded with and produced records for a plethora of big name artists including production credits for Richard Thompson, Shawn Colvin, Allison Moorer, Robert Plant, Jim Lauderdale and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. He also played on Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, and provided instrumentals or vocals on records by Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, John Fogerty, the Chieftains, Rodney Crowell, Dixie Chicks, Elvis Costello, and Alison Krause. The guy is a legend.
Artist Website: buddymiller.com
Featured Albums: Buddy Miller
Related Artists: Julie Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Alison Krauss
