Buddy Miller
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Miller at the SXSW festival in 2010, Austin, Texas.
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| Background information | |
| Born |
September 6, 1952 Fairborn, Ohio |
| Genres | Country, Americana |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | HighTone, New West |
| Associated acts | Julie Miller, Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue, Buddy Miller Band, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Emmylou Harris, Band of Joy, Steve Earle |
| Website | buddyandjulie |
Steven Paul "Buddy" Miller (born September 6, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller.
While living in New York City in the late 1970s, Miller formed the Buddy Miller Band, which included singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar.
Miller moved to Nashville in the 1990s, where he worked on recording sessions as a guitar player and vocalist and began producing his own records in his living room studio. His first solo recording, Your Love and Other Lies, was released in 1995. It was followed by Poison Love in 1997 and Cruel Moon in 1999. He and his wife, Julie Miller, released Buddy & Julie Miller in 2001, which won the Album of the Year Award from the Americana Music Association .
Miller has toured as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris's Spyboy band, Steve Earle on his El Corazon tour, Shawn Colvin, Linda Ronstadt, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Patty Griffin. In 2002, Miller toured as part of the Down from the Mountain Tour along with Alison Krauss and Union Station. In 2004, Miller toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings as the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue.
Miller toured as part of the band on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand tour of the U.S. and Europe in 2008. He then joined Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on tour as Three Girls and Their Buddy. While on tour, following a performance in Baltimore on February 19, 2009, Miller suffered a heart attack. He underwent triple bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 20.
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