Artist Biography

Reggie fuses the influences of Leadbelly, McTell, Charley Patton, all those old blues and ragtime authors, with original songs and those of musical acquaintances. The intensity and excitement he generates reflects the raw emotion of the rural Delta blues that rocked the juke joints of the twenties and thirties. Combine Reggie’s powerful vocals and hand-built *resophonic slide guitar bottle-neckin’ with the rhythmic huffs and moans of his harmonica and you’ve got a recipe for foot stompin’.

But to say that Reggie is merely all of the above is to deny his lighter side. His passionate past-time penchant for unearthing obscure nonsense narrative nuggets from numerous 78rpm archives by noted nutty nearly unknowns like Nervous Norvus, Lazy Larry, and untold others, has made Mr. Miles one of the Northwest’s favorite funny-bone ticklers.

Add to the mix Reggie’s explorations into the eerie tones and subtle timbre of the musical saw and his uncanny ability to flex the hand tool’s razor sharp spring steel betwixt quivering knees to produce a prodigious palate of pleasing panache. As Seattle’s Premiere Performance Artist on the Bowed Saw, he risks both life and limb by bending 213 terribly treacherous teeth dangerously close to body parts both near and dear. Chill at his critically acclaimed capability to coolly coax complex collections of cutting edge cornball curiosities and colorfully comical crackpot compositions via the confidently controlled contortions of his cruelly capricious and cantankerously caterwauling crosscut in a cantabile cadence!

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Alternative Links

• Reggie Miles @ Google Sites
  Contact info and brief over view of this award winning Folk/Blues artist