Episode 58 – Buddy Miller

Buddy 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.

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