DALE MILLER: Fingerpicking Rags & Other Delights

Dale Miller

Fingerpicking Rags & Other Delights

© 1996 Fantasy, Inc (025218390422)

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Solo guitar ragtime fingerpicking. Originally released in 1975, re-released in 1996.

tracks

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

notes

This recording was originally released as an LP in 1975 by Kicking Mule Records. That pressing sold out in a few years and it was unavailable in any format for over 25 years until its re-release on CD by Fantasy Records in the mid 1990s. Many professional finger style guitarists and critics have cited Fingerpicking Rags as an important and influencial work.

Fantasy was sold in 2006 and this CD, along with many others, has been discontinued. The copies here on CDBaby are among the last few still available. New copies on Amazon are selling for around $30 now. It can't be downloaded from here for legal reasons.

Miller's new CD Time Goes By has updated and expanded versions of many of these tunes. It is for sale here at CDBaby and is downloadable from here, iTunes and other sites.

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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.

reviews

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  • Fingerpicking Rags & Other Delights
    author: Graham Squires

    I first bought this thirty years ago when it first came out. Sounded great back then - sounds even better today!

  • loveley arrangments of great music
    author: john townshend

    i first owned this record in the 70,s i had forgotten how great it was i am now relearning the songs

  • Facile, Yet Relaxed
    author: Dirty Linen Magazine

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

  • Just Plain Good Listening
    author: Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine

    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.

  • Sharp Fingers
    author: Guitar Player Magazine

    Dale must have sharpened his fingers. They slice quickly and cleanly through the material at hand. - (review of original 1975 LP)

  • Fingerpickers' Man
    author: Victory Music

    Fingerpickers, this has got to be your man. - (review of orignal 1975 LP)

  • Just fabulous............you can't play this stuff!
    author: blue barry - Knoxvegas, Tennessee

    I got the record back in the 70's. Comparable players are Blind Willie McTell, Reverend Gary, and Ernie Hawkins. The best of company. This guy is something else. Thanks again..........deja blues

  • Picks his strings with a vitallity all his own, great style..........
    author: doc mongoose

    I have a friend who is a great picker like yourself.Ill share your cd with him and he will be overjoyed, Im sure.Keep it alive and commin.doc

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