Buddy Miller

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Buddy Miller is a country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer/songwriter Julie Miller.

Miller formed the Buddy Miller Band, which included singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar.

In addition to releasing several solo albums over the years, Miller has toured as lead guitarist/backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris's Spyboy band, Steve Earle on his El Corazon tour, Shawn Colvin, and Linda Ronstadt. He co-produced and performed on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's 2000 album Endless Night. He has also appeared on several albums by songwriter/singer Lucinda Williams.

In 2004, Miller toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings as the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue.

At the 4th Annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards, the Ryman Auditorium September 2005, Miller received the Album of the Year Award for Universal United House of Prayer, and the opening cut of that album, "Worry Too Much" (penned by Mark Heard, and originally released on his Second Hand album), won the Song of the Year Award.

[edit] Discography

  • Streetlight, 1983
  • Strong Hand of Love, tribute to Mark Heard, 1994
  • Man On The Moon (Buddy Miller and The Sacred Cows), 1995
  • Your Love and Other Lies, 1995
  • Orphans of God, tribute to Mark Heard, 1996
  • Poison Love, 1997
  • Cruel Moon, 1999
  • Buddy & Julie Miller, 2001
  • Midnight and Lonesome, 2002
  • Love Snuck Up (Buddy & Julie duets compilation), 2004
  • Universal United House of Prayer, 2004