This page contains a brief overview on the album DALE MILLER: Fingerpicking Rags & Other Delights. Learn more about the artist and explore the track lists and website. If you find any information that needs to be corrected, please let us know.

 
This release was very influential on a generation of finger style guitarists and was unavailable in any format for 25 years.

Reviews

"Fingerpickers, this has got to be your man."
- Victory Music Review

"Dale must have sharpened his fingers. They slice quickly and cleanly through the material at hand."
- Guitar Player Magazine

"One of my favorite guitarists from the now defunct Kicking Mule Records is Dale Miller. Thankfully his classic Fingerpicking Rags And Other Delights has been issued on CD by Fantasy . . . [It is] just plain good listening. Picking favorites off this twenty-one track collection is ridiculously hard for me, but I can say that his versions of God Bless the Child, Birth of the Blues and Blue Prelude have stayed with me the last twenty years."
- James Jensen, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine

"Miller is facile, yet relaxed; even his "Chattanooga Choo Choo" steams lazily along."
- Dirty Linen

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Miller was born in Washington, D.C. He began playing guitar during the "folk boom" of the early 1960s. His biggest influence soon became John Fahey, the first person to record LPs of steel string guitar solos.

He was Kicking Mule Records best selling American based artist through-out the 1970s. From 1983 to 2000 he was co-owner of Noe Valley Music, a guitar shop in San Francisco.

He occasionally writes articles for music related magazines, most often Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

He continues to record today on his own Dale Miller Productions label.

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.dalemiller.com/fprags.html

Track List:
1. Sweet Georgia Brown
2. Stagger Lee
3. God Bless the Child
4. Cheap Wine
5. Chattanooga Choo Choo
6. Boys from Blue Hill
7. Inflation Blues
8. Bicycle Built For Two/Sidewalks of New York
9. Air on a G String
10. Too Tite Rag
11. The Pitchel Players Theme
12. Amtrak Shuffle
13. Blue Prelude
14. Take it on the Run
15. Nice Work if You Can Get It
16. Son of Diddie
17. Birth of the Blues
18. Shelley's Swing
19. Fleabites
20. Little Fugue
21. Hey Jude

Suggested CDs:

• Alison Faith Levy
• John Hasbrouck
• Geoffrey Lee

Other Genres:

• FOLK: Folk Blues
• JAZZ: Ragtime
• TYPE: INSTRUMENTAL