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Infobox musical artist | | name = Buddy Miller| image = Buddy-Miller in 2010.jpg| caption = Miller at the SXSW festival in 2010, Austin, Texas.| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| birth_date = birth date and age|1952|09|06|birth_place = Fairborn, Ohio | instrument = Singing|Vocals , Guitar | genre = Country Music|Country , Americana music|Americana | occupation = Musician , Singer-songwriter , Record producer|producer | years_active = 1983–present| label = HighTone Records|HighTone New West Records|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 = http://www.buddyandjulie.com/ Official Site Buddy Miller (born September 6, 1952 in Fairborn, Ohio ) is a country music|country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee|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 and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris 's Spyboy (album)|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 and 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.
Buddy Miller has also produced albums for a number of artists. During 2006 Solomon Burke came over to Miller's house at Nashville to record his country album 'Nashville' on which Emmylou Harris , Patty Griffin , Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton appear as duet partners.
He has a signature acoustic guitar made by the Fender company, and frequently uses vintage Wandre electric guitars.
Buddy Miller toured as part of the band on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 's Raising Sand tour of the USA and Europe, and with Emmylou Harris , Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour. While on tour, Miller suffered a Myocardial infarction|heart attack in Baltimore on February 19, 2009 following his performance as part of the MammoJam Music Festival and underwent Coronary artery bypass surgery|triple bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on 20 February. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090221/TUNEIN02/90221022/1005/ENTERTAINMENT Nashville music great Buddy Miller recovering after heart surgery
At the annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards program at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 18, 2008, Miller received the "AMA Instrumentalist Of The Year" award, which was presented to him by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss . Miller was joined by Plant on a performance of a new song "Whatcha Gonna Do, Leroy" from his album Written in Chalk which was released in March 2009. He also was part of the band for John Fogerty 's The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again in 2009. In 2010, Miller again joined Robert Plant and Patty Griffin with Robert Plant's Band of Joy , touring both the US and Europe.
Miller produced Patty Griffin's Downtown Church which was released in 2010 and won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album on February 13, 2011.
Discography
Year
Album
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US Country
US Christian
US
US Heat
US Indie
1995
Man on the Moon (Buddy Miller and The Sacred Cows)
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