Dale Miller
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitarist
Dale Miller
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitarist
Time Goes By
Improvised variations on his original arrangements of tunes such as Sweet Georgia Brown, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, I'm Looking Through You, Over the Rainbow, Blue Monk, Darktown Strutters Ball and the title track As Time Goes By. Additional arrangements of standards like When You Wish Upon a Star and I'm Beginning to See the Light. Dale rounds things out with a few original blues and a John Fahey cover to honor his main inspiration.
Available on CD, MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
Azzurro Verdi
Solo guitar arrangements of opera arias by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini and others.
Available on CD, MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
Diplocomp, A Diplodisc Sampler
Alessandro Monti has assembled an international group of artists, playing in a variety of styes, to produce a CD of shimmering musicality. Dale closes this sampler with a duet on acoustic & slide guitars of his own arrangement of the haunting, Peregrinazione Lagunaria, a traditional song from Dale’s beloved Venice.
Available on CD through Burning Shed, an online label and store specialising in Singer-Songwriter, Progressive, Ambient/Electronica and Art Rock music.
Both Of Me
Overdubbed duets of Jazz standards played with fingerstyle accompaniment and slide lead.
Available on CD, MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
Fingerpicking Rags and Other Delights
This important recording was first released in early 1975 as an LP by Kicking Mule Records. It became a best seller for that small but influential record company and inspired many of today’s top guitarists. The original LP sold out within a few years of its release.
In 1996 it was re-released by Fantasy Records on CD. Dale has recorded new renditions of some of the tunes from this record on the CD Time Goes By.
Available on MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files. Limited CDs available through cdbaby. Limited LPs available through PayPal and various Amazon resellers.
Stars Fell
Allison Faith Levy sings blues, country, folk and jazz accompanied by Dale on solo guitar. EP length CD.
Available on CD, MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
Contemporary Ragtime Guitar
Dale made his recording debut in the early 1970s on this LP, the seventh released by Kicking Mule Records. Its surprising success helped define the company as a label that specialized in guitar soloists and helped introduce and popularize solo ragtime guitar. Joining Dale are Eric Schoenberg, David Laibman, Tony Marcus, Leo Wijnkamp and Tom Gilfellon. It has been re-released on CD by Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop. Miller re-recorded his arrangement of Bye Bye Blackbird on his CD Both of Me.
Available on CD and MP3. Limited LPs available through PayPal and various Amazon resellers.
I Got Rhythm
This LP was released in 1976 by Kicking Mule Records. Dale’s best known contribution was a version of Over the Rainbow with a walking bass line, which he re-recorded on his CD Time Goes By. It has been re-released on CD by Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop.
Available on CD and MP3. Limited LPs available through PayPal and various Amazon resellers.
The Revenge of Blind Joe Death
This CD was produced by Jon Monday in 2006 for Takoma Records. There are twenty selections and each is played by a different musican or musicians. Some play Fahey covers and others do originals inspired by and/or dedicated to him. Dale’s version of Fahey’s Sunflower River Blues kicks off the CD. The age range of the players runs from twenty something to sixty something.
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Guitarist’s Choice
Guitarist’s Choice was the second of the three LPs Dale recorded for Kicking Mule Records in the 1970s. New renditions of nine of the tunes from this record are on the CD Time Goes By.
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Fingers Don’t Fail Me Now
Fingers Don’t Fail Me Now was Dale’s last LP for Kicking Mule Records and his only one of all original guitar solos. A few cuts from this LP are included on the CD Guitarist/Composer Sampler. John Calvin of Moonset recorded Butano Lullaby on the CD Wherever We Sing and Teja Gerken recorded Noe Valley Sunday on his CD Postcards. Singer/songwriter William McLane added musical accompaniment to a tongue-in-cheek Miller essay in the book. McLane has recorded it on his CD Across the Double Yellow Line.
MP3s or MP3s plus PDFs of the transcriptions available through PayPal. Limited LPs available through PayPal and various Amazon resellers.
Guitarist Composer Sampler
This 1997 CD was produced by Dale for Fantasy Records. It includes cuts recorded in the 1970s and early 1980s by himself, Bob Hadley, Nick Katzman, Chris Proctor and Bob Stanton on Kicking Mule Records.
Available on CD, MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
In Christ There Is No East or West
Dale Miller and Duck Baker play a duet version of In Christ There is no East or West, adding a second part to John Fahey's great rendition.
Available on MP3, MP3 320, and FLAC files.
Country Blues and Ragtime Guitar Styles
Country Blues and Ragtime Guitar Styles was released as a Book/Cassette combo by Kicking Mule Records in the 1980s and re-released as a book/CD combo by Mel Bay Publications in the 1990s. It contained 14 blues guitar solos explained and notated in standard notation and guitar tablature. Although no longer in print, a digital file that includes the recordings in MP3 format and PDFs of the transcriptions can be ordered through PayPal.