Jerry Miller
Miller is currently available for lessons via webcam!
Lessons and recording artist: Guitar, mandolin, dobro, lap steel, pedal steel
$35 half hour/$50 per hour
jerrygmiller@gmail.com 508.851.0638
Jerry Miller has been playing and studying guitar since his childhood in Nashville, TN, later earning a degree in guitar performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. His time there included studies in improvisation with vibraphonist Gary Burton, arranging and composition, and jazz guitar performance.
Through the years Jerry has taught private lessons and group workshops, including a trio workshop, "Guitar Giants: Albert Lee, Bill Kirchen, & Jerry Miller" at the 2013 Rhythm & Roots Festival in Charlestown, RI. Many of Jerry’s students are, or have gone on to be, professional musicians. Jerry has also taught, recorded, and performed on mandolin, dobro, lap steel, and pedal steel.
He has played blues, country, rockabilly, folk, jazz, and surf, touring and recording with artists such as: Elvin Bishop, Johnny Copeland, Dave Alvin, saxophonist Scott Hamilton, Chris Smither, guitarist Frank Vignola, violinist Matt Glaser, Freddy Fender, and Sun Recording Artists Sonny Burgess and Billy Lee Riley. Jerry toured for 10 years with Bluestime fronted by Magic Dick and Jay Geils, and has performed several times as part of B.B. King's BluesFest.
Since 2005 Jerry has been touring and recording with Signature Sounds recording artist Eilen Jewell, regularly gigging from Sydney to Stockholm, playing festivals and venues such as the Byron Bay Blues Festival in Australia, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, MerleFest in NC, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland among many others across the USA and Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand. He has performed on the NPR radio shows Mountain Stage in WV, E-Town from Boulder, CO and BBC Radio 2 with Mark Lamarr.
Jerry soloing on Shakin’ All Over, live with Eilen Jewell.
AcousticMusic.com:
"Night after night, town after town, continent after continent with the Eilen Jewell Band, Miller's reverby twang tells so eloquently his instrument's history: Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, James Burton, Steve Cropper, 60's pop, western swing, country soul."
TerritorialImperatives.com:
"I’m not the first guy to say this, but Jerry Miller, Eilen's guitarist, is simply one of the best in the world, able to distill 50 years of American roots tradition in a one-minute solo."