Buddy Miller

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.

Buddy was born in Fairborn, Ohio, near Dayton, and his family ended up settling in Princeton, New Jersey.

His grandfather gave him the nickname "Buddy."

During the late 1970s he was in a country-rock band called the Desperate Men, which played in the NNJ and New York area, including clubs like Stanhope House, Cuss From Hoe and others.

In 1975, he moved to Austin, Texas and played rockabilly music in Ray Campi's band.

He auditioned for and played in the band Partners In Crime with Julie Griffin (soon to be his second wife).

In 1980, they moved to New York City, and Miller 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.

In 1995, Buddy along with the Sacred Cows recorded a gospel album, Man on the Moon.

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 co-produced and performed on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's 2000 album One Endless Night.

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.

In 2002, he released Midnight and Lonesome and in 2004 he released Universal United House of Prayer.

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.

In 2006 Solomon Burke recorded his country album Nashville with Miller.

Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton appear as duet partners.

In 2008, Miller toured as part of the band on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand tour of the U.S. and Europe.

2009 brought another Buddy and Julie duet album Written in Chalk and in 2011 Buddy collaborated with Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Greg Leisz to release The Majestic Silver Strings.

In 2009, Miller joined Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on tour as Three Girls and Their Buddy.

While on that tour, following a performance in Baltimore on February 19, 2009, Miller suffered a heart attack.

He underwent successful triple bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 20.

In 2010, Miller again joined Robert Plant and Patty Griffin with Plant's Band of Joy, touring the U.S. and Europe.

Miller produced Patty Griffin's Downtown Church that was released in 2010 and won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album on February 13, 2011.

Miller has produced his own solo albums as well as recordings for and with his wife, singer-songwriter Julie Miller.

In 2012, Buddy and Jim Lauderdale released the duet album Buddy & Jim and in 2016, Buddy recorded sessions by Kacey Musgraves, Nikki Lane, Lee Ann Womack, Brandi Carlile, and Kris Kristofferson on the album Cayamo: Sessions at Sea.

Miller has toured as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris's Spyboy band, Steve Earle on his El Corazon tour, and Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on their Western Wall tour.

In 2012, Miller toured with Jim Lauderdale on the Buddy and Jim Tour.

In 2015, Miller was one of the leaders of the house band for Dear Jerry, a tribute concert for Jerry Garcia, which included over 20 acts and took place at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

In 2016, Miller was part of the Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees tour featuring Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and the Milk Carton Kids.

For the past decade, Buddy has often been a part of the Cayamo Cruise, which sails from Miami to St. Maarten and Tortola.

Each year, prominent Americana musicians are on board, and Buddy often collaborates and records with them.

He is a regular performer at the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival in San Francisco where, billed as Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars, he features a changing roster of guest performers.

Miller has produced albums for artists including Richard Thompson, Shawn Colvin, The Devil Makes Three, Allison Moorer, the Wood Brothers, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the McCrarys, and Ralph Stanley.

He has co-produced records with Robert Plant, Jim Lauderdale and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.