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Artist
Reggie Miles
12+ albums
delta bluesacoustic bluesRoots BluesFolk BluesSlide Blues
about
Reggie Miles... A Solo Songwriter, Singer, Storyteller, Slide Guitarist and Sawplayer from Chicago's South Side residing in Seattle Turns trash into musical treasure, his own homemade 'Nobro' resophonic guitars, constructed from repurposed junk culled from garage sales, swap meets, thrift stores... Earthy vocals, Delta style fingerpickin' and bottleneckin' combine with the rhythmic moans of Blues harp, while foot stompin' abounds, creating authentic American Acoustic Roots Blues An aficionado of storytelling, tall tales are intricately woven effortlessly into the fabric of music and songs A Folk/Blues fingerpicker of whimsical found and self-penned songs A virtuoso in the musical folk art of bowed hand saw melodies An award winning songwriter, recording and performance artist who has gained multinational media attention via recent compositions like, "Wall Street Bailout Blues". Featured in a half dozen documentary films and videos, in multi-million dollar major industry productions, on the CDs of more than a dozen Northwest artists, in addition to 21 self produced recordings since 1995. What others are saying about Reggie Miles... "Channeled Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Robert Johnson, Ken Kesey, and Salvadore Dali" (Brian G) "Traditional bluesie - brilliant... A mixture of Bluesey, jazzy, juggy, eclectic stuff... Solid" (Rick Fielding) "Shel Silverstein meets Leonard Cohen" (Anon) "Country blues with a novelty twist....a down home gravelly voice and a driving sli
