Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Recorded and edited from a program where musician Blair Miller and curator of education Jason Dake discussed Millers's musical background, process, and work.
Blair Miller's voyage through the blues started by listening to covers by the British and American bands of the 60's. Then he heard John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and Howlin' Wolf. Searching for the roots of the blues, he discovered Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton and many more great bluesmen and women of the 20's and 30's.
Miller picked up a steel resonator guitar and a slide and started working on playing the blues of the Mississippi Delta. He also plays a parlor guitar and a cigar box guitar. Now, Blair Miller is a confirmed bluesman. He says," I want to share and keep the blues alive. No music reaches me as deeply as Delta Blues."
blairmillerblues.com
Recorded and edited from a program where musician Blair Miller and curator of education Jason Dake discussed Millers's musical background, process, and work.
Blair Miller's voyage through the blues started by listening to covers by the British and American bands of the 60's. Then he heard John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and Howlin' Wolf. Searching for the roots of the blues, he discovered Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton and many more great bluesmen and women of the 20's and 30's.
Miller picked up a steel resonator guitar and a slide and started working on playing the blues of the Mississippi Delta. He also plays a parlor guitar and a cigar box guitar. Now, Blair Miller is a confirmed bluesman. He says," I want to share and keep the blues alive. No music reaches me as deeply as Delta Blues."
blairmillerblues.com
