Eddie Miller

“So the miller told his story,” go the pretentious lyrics of “Whiter Tone of Pale,” but which Miller? The well-liked mandolinist Eddie Miller who passed away in an automobile wreck likely to a gig in nov 2001 isn’t the same Eddie Miller who composed the united states smash entitled “Discharge Me.” The mandolinist’s sibling John Miller, bandmate in Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, isn’t the same John Miller would you the extravagant fingerpicking agreements of George Gershwin, although he will also play electric guitar. Their dad Ernie Miller, who trained them music and hauled them off to utilize him in the East Tennessee Hill Boys, could without doubt end up being confused with various other musician aswell. Focusing the zoom lens in over the mandolinist, the issue grew up whether this may end up being the Eddie Miller acknowledged with banjo on the 1989 album with the Athens music group Drivin’ N’ Cryin’. Many Appalachian players can cover many stringed instruments, in the end, and Georgia isn’t that definately not either of Miller’s Tennessee bases of actions, Knoxville and Nashville. An obituary about Miller acquired even talked about him completing on banjo when Smith’s regular man, Randall Conn, couldn’t arrive. An acknowledged professional on “hill pickin'” was asked concerning this, wandering in off his front side porch and planting a little puddle of gnawing tobacco in the center of a discographical survey. “Don’t assume all five-banger can boil pasta over the mandolincini,” he commented using a responsible usage of specialized jargon. The earlier mentioned article will not talk about Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, but will list a number of bluegrass clothes the mandolinist was associated with since signing up for the Knoxville bluegrass picture as an adolescent in the ’70s. He gigged with the brand new River Young boys, the Smoky Hill Travelers, New Dawn, as well as the Possum Stomach Band. An additional contribution he designed to the picture was encouraging young players: apprentices including John Golden and Richard Bennett continued contribute significantly to important rings such as for example Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek and J.D. Crowe & the brand new South. The mandolinist drifted south to Nashville in 1986, collaborating frequently with banjoist Mike Scott. One of is own bands played on the Dollywood leisure recreation area, where he may be noticed trilling in the fascinating Fire over the Hill extravaganza. In the ’90s, Miller continued to be energetic in Nashville but was toiling a number of the period for an workplace supply firm. In the last mentioned part of the 10 years, he himself became a member of up with Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek.