Guitarist Dale Miller has been pushing the boundaries of solo guitar playing for four decades. In the 1970s Miller was the best selling American based artist for Kicking Mule Records, the most influential solo acoustic guitar label of that era.
Like many guitarists of his generation, Miller mastered the techniques of traditional blues artists such as Blind Blake, Etta Baker, and Mississippi John Hurt, but from the start he applied these chops to many types of music. His three solo LPs from the 1970s featured tunes by J.S. Bach, The Beatles, Thelonius Monk and George Gershwin as well as straight ahead blues and original compositions
In the1980s Miller settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. He stayed active in the music scene owning a guitar shop, playing locally, writing articles for music magazines and producing acoustic shows. He also struck off in a new direction, mastering bottleneck slide techniques.
Miller again expanded the limits of steel string acoustic guitar with the release of the CD Both of Me in the 1990s on where he played his slide guitar lead over his own finger style accompaniment on various Jazz standards. One of his Kicking Mule LPs, Fingerpicking Rags and Other Delights was re-released by Fantasy Records in this decade.
Miller ushered in the new millennium with his most ambitious project, Azzurro Verdi, a CD of opera arias arranged for solo steel string guitar. This beautiful release showcases Miller’s strengths – his arranging skills, exquisite tone and elegance.
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