Early life and musical career

While living in New York City in the late 1970s, Miller formed the Buddy Miller Band, which included singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar.

Miller moved to Nashville in the 1990s, where he worked on recording sessions as a guitar player and vocalist and began producing his own records in his living room studio. 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 and his wife, Julie Miller, released Buddy & Julie Miller in 2001, which won the Album of the Year Award from the Americana Music Association .

Touring and performance

Miller has toured as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris's Spyboy band, Steve Earle on his El Corazon tour, Shawn Colvin, Linda Ronstadt, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Patty Griffin. 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.

Miller toured as part of the band on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand tour of the U.S. and Europe in 2008. He then joined Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on tour as Three Girls and Their Buddy. While on tour, following a performance in Baltimore on February 19, 2009, Miller suffered a heart attack. He underwent 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 toured with Jim Lauderdale on the Buddy and Jim Tour in 2012.

Recording

Record producer

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.

In 2006 Solomon Burke recorded his country album Nashville with Miller. Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton appear as duet partners.

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.

Session work

He co-produced and performed on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's 2000 album One Endless Night. He has also appeared on several albums by songwriter and singer Lucinda Williams.

Miller has worked as an instrumentalist or vocalist on records by Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Lee Ann Womack, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Victoria Williams, Shawn Colvin, Bobby Bare, Chris Knight, John Fogerty, the Chieftains, Frank Black, Rodney Crowell, Dixie Chicks, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. He has also worked as a recording engineer, mixer or mastering engineer on records by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Jim Lauderdale, and Patty Griffin.

Songwriting

Levon Helm, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Lee Ann Womack, Dixie Chicks, Hank Williams III, Dierks Bentley, Patty Loveless, and Brooks & Dunn have recorded songs written by Miller.

Film and TV

Miller signed on as a producer for the ABC TV series Nashville in 2012. He was the executive music producer for the show in season two and three. He also was music producer and musical director for Nashville: On The Record Live Specials.

Along with Don Was, Miller was the musical director for The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris tribute concert.

Miller was musical director and bandleader for the Americana Music Association's Honors & Awards shows broadcast on AXS TV and PBS.

Tom T. Hall's song "That's How I Got To Memphis" featured in the final episode of HBO's The Newsroom in 2014 was recorded by Miller.

Starz political drama Boss used the Plant-Miller produced "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" as its theme song.

Miller produced the track "Beyond the Blue" featuring Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin for the 2000 film Where the Heart Is.

In 2015 he appeared on Christina Aguilera's song "Shotgun", which was written for her appearance on Nashville.

Awards, accolades, and other activities

Between 2002 and 2013, Miller won twelve Americana Music Honors & Awards and was nominated for seven others. Since 2005, he has led the Americana All Star Band, which performs with nominated artist during the Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremonies, held annually at the Ryman Auditorium.

Americana Music Awards and nominations

Year	Award	result
2002	Artist of the Year	Nominated (with Julie)
2002	Album of the Year (Buddy & Julie Miller)	Won
2003	Instrumentalist of the Year	Nominated
2003	Album of the Year (Midnight & Lonesome)	Nominated
2005	Artist of the Year	Nominated
2005	Song of the Year (Worry Too Much Written by Mark Heard and performed by Buddy Miller)	Won
2005	Album of the Year (Universal United House of Prayer)	Won
2007	Instrumentalist of the Year	Won
2008	Instrumentalist of the Year	Won
2009	Instrumentalist of the Year	Nominated
2009	Album of the Year	Won (Written in Chalk by Buddy & Julie Miller)
2009	Song of the Year	Won (Chalk Written by Julie Miller and performed by Buddy and Julie Miller)
2009	Duo/Group of the Year (Buddy and Julie Miller)	Won
2009	Artist of the Year	Won
2010	Instrumentalist of the Year	Won
2011	Instrumentalist of the Year	Won
2011	Artist of the Year	Won
2012	Instrumentalist of the Year	Won
2013	Duo/Group of the Year (with Jim Lauderdale)	Nominated
2013	Artist of the Year	Nominated
2013	Album of the Year (Buddy & Jim - Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale)	Nominated

No Depression magazine named him Artist of the Decade in 2008.

He has a signature acoustic guitar made by the Fender company, and frequently uses vintage Wandré electric guitars.

Radio

Miller and his longtime friend and collaborator Jim Lauderdale teamed up in 2012 to produce The Buddy & Jim Radio Show, broadcast on Outlaw Country.

Discography

Year	Album	Peak chart positions					Label
1995	Man on the Moon						Coyote
	Your Love and Other Lies						HighTone
1997	Poison Love
1999	Cruel Moon
2001	Buddy & Julie Miller	45			41
2002	Midnight and Lonesome	50
2004	Love Snuck Up
	Universal United House of Prayer	64	40				New West
2008	The Best of the HighTone Years						Shout! Factory
2009	Written in Chalk			159	3		New West
2011	The Majestic Silver Strings	37			8	41
2012	Buddy & Jim	67			20
2016	Cayamo: Sessions at Sea	30			12	31

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