![]() ![]() Written in Chalk, his all-star collaboration with wife, Julie, won the 2009 Americana Album of the Year, while The Majestic Silver Strings, a guitar-centric confab with Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, and Marc Ribot, attracted a bevy of beautiful female vocalists including Griffin, Harris, Colvin, Lee Ann Womack, Ann McCrary, and his wife. On Buddy and Jim, his collaboration with Lauderdale, his Patty Loveless-covered “Looking For A Heartache Like You” shares space with the achingly beautiful ballad “That’s Not Even Why I Love You ,” both rippling like timeless refugees from a ’50s jukebox. But along the way, he’s created music that stands the test of time. Great songs transcend.”įor a guy who scammed his way into a record deal by telling the label he could make an album for $10,000 and yes, he had songs, the Americana Artist of the Year and T-Bone Burnett’s clandestine musical clearinghouse for ABC’s primetime soap drama Nashville has defied a lot of rules. “I think about songs this way: I’d love to sing that song, whatever band is playing it. “ A good song can take a steel guitar, no matter where it comes from,” explains the slightly grizzly Ohio-born musico. Or maybe it’s refusing to even acknowledge them. ![]() Uncompromising on their soul factor, Miller elicits a looseness from his players that gives listeners the sense of being in the room, not to mention melting labels in a single song. It’s more a joke than anything, because no one’s records receive more critical praise. So genre integrated, Solomon Burke made a country-tinged project, Griffin went full-tilt gospel, and Harris reclaimed her repertoire with a more rock lean with him. Humble to a fault, Miller has become the definition of a stylistic meltdown. “There was no other plan,” says the man who has anchored the Emmylou Harris/Shawn Colvin/Patty Griffin 3 Girls & Their Buddy roadshow, been central to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand collaboration, produced recent projects for Richard Thompson, Shawn Colvin, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and is a member in full of Plant and Griffin’s Band of Joy. Lauderdale, career stalled but his songwriting attracting interest from George Strait and Patty Loveless, rented a room upstairs, making the little house in the Belmont area a post-Bakersfield beachhead for West Coast progressives. Without looking back, Miller and wife, songwriter/Christian artist Julie, packed up and moved to Tennessee. Selling gears ’n’ guitars every month to make rent, something had to give. Miller had been straddling the indie record scene with a deal on HighTone, known for its breakout modern blues guitarist Robert Cray, and a job as country hipster Jim Lauderdale’s guitarist.
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