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Tracey Miller

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Tracey Miller

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Tracey Miller is a gifted songwriter with an ear for a great melody and an infectious hook. Her songs tell heartfelt stories that resound with all that hear them and reflect a lifetime of listening to and performing music in the great American roots music traditions.
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Reveiws and praises for Tracey Miller "This is the Real Deal!"
Nick Charles, Australian Roots Guitarist and interviewer for Rhythms Magazine
"Tracey Miller is one of the most intense and fluid singers l've ever heard, someone who not only is conversant with black idioms, but who sings as if the song is issuing directly from her guts and soul."
Tony Backhouse, Sydney A Cappella Association, musical director of Cafe Of The Gates of Salvation
"Millers songs are subtle tales of love and salvation, lifted by fine instrumentalists and seamless harmonies.... Anyone into the acoustic sound that the Rounder and Sugar Hill labels do so well should check this out."
Keith Glass EG Guide The Age and Capital New Country Music 2004 review of Tracey Miller and The Sunbeams One More Day
"A work of Art over any commercial considerations - the song you know l hate to lose is the more poignant - because in loss Miller has found her true voice."
Keith Glass Capital News country Music 2006
"Could possibly be the darkhorse folk and roots album of the year. Some of the most amazing and honest music I've heard for sometime"
Daniel Gregson, EG The Age
"If Melbourne is the treasure house of music makers we believe it is, Miller is its diamond"
Ken Williams The Age
"She reminds me of another little girl named Tracey back home in the united States - Tracey Nelson. Both girls have a big heart and a big voice." Ramblin Jack Elliot,US Singer/Songwriter
Tracey Miller is an experienced musician having worked in a wide variety of music styles such as country, blues, gospel, bluegrass, and African.
She has a long history as lead vocalist in many varied groups and bands as well as writing and arranging songs for performances, choirs and individual vocal groups and conducting workshops. Her performances have taken her from large festivals to intimate cafes.
Some of them include:
1993 Canberra National Folk Festival
1994 & 1999 Port Fairy Folk Festival
1994 Apollo Bay Festival
1994 & 1999 The Basement (Sydney)
1997 & 2003 Port Fairy Folk Festival
1997 USA: Jasper Folk Festival - Birmingham Alabama Many Afro-American churches in New Orleans and Harlem
1997- 2002 The Boite Melbourne Winter Festival
1999 Womadelaide
1999 The Today Show (GTV 9 Melbourne)
1999 Sydney A Cappella Festival
2000, 2001 & 2002 Bendigo Gospel Festival
2003 Care Australia World Hunger Benefit - Federation Square, Melbourne
Tracey has also recorded with Valanga Khosa, The Testifiers and Heart'n Soul.

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Member Since: 5/30/2006
Band Website: www.tracey.miller.com.au
Band Members: Tracey is currently working on her new album with Producer Andy Baylor (also on guitars), Sam Lemann- rythm guitar , Dale Lindrea- bass, Steve Teakle- piano, Lenny 'Sharkey' Ramos- drums, feat. special guests Ken Shroeder on Saxophone & Gianni Marinucci on Flugal Horn and TrumpetProfile edited with CricketSoda's Myspace Editor
Influences: Led Belly, Hank Williams,New Lost City Ramblers, Jimmy Rogers, Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, Andy Baylor, Rick Dempster,from the DanceHall Racketeers, Rose Maddox, T Bone Walker, Cajun music, Wynona Carr, Irma Thomas, Gospel Music. Howlin Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightening Hopkins, Django Reinhardt, The Delmore brothers Jimmy Rushing, Bob Wills, Bill Landford and the Landfordairs, Freddy King, the Dixie Huming birds, Jerry Douglas, the Louvin Brothers, The Carter Family, The Stanley Brothers, Elmore James, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Turner, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Allison Krauss, The Whites, The cox family, Elvis, Louis Jordan, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson , Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Lowell Fulson, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Patton, Leroy Carr, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan,and so much more...
Sounds Like: Tracey Miller!
Record Label: Black Market Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Dreaming over the water.

I have just played a beautiful gig at Redhill Cellars, l looked out over the western port bay and admired the view, looked at the blue of the sky and of the water and thought this is how music should ...
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