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Bill Miller (born January 23, 1955) is a Native American singer/songwriter and artist of Mohican heritage. He is a guitarist, player of the Native American flute and painter. Life
The Red Road is a 1993 country music album by Native American singer Bill Miller. The album was his major-label debut, with Warner Western, and brought him to a broader popular country music public. [1] [2] The album has been classed among classic country "drivers'" albums. [3] [4]
Raven in the Snow is an album by the Native American musician Bill Miller, released in 1995. [2] [3] The first two singles were "River of Time" and the title track.[4] [5] Miller supported the album by opening shows for the BoDeans and then Tish Hinojosa.
Previously, Native American recordings had been placed in the folk, world or new-age music categories. [4] While some Native American artists criticized the award category for being "too narrowly defined to accommodate the breadth of today's Indian music", others took pride in its inclusion.
In 2014 a tribute album, Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited, was released with contributions by Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Emmylou Harris, Bill Miller, and others. This was also the name of a documentary film about the suppression of Cash's Native American-themed album in the 1960s.
[1] [2] While Native American identity can at times be a complex and contested issue, the Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry, and legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as ...
Cedar Dream Songs is an album by Bill Miller, released through Paras Recordings on April 20, 2004. [1] In 2005, the album won Miller the Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album . [ 2 ]
Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth is a compilation album of Native American music released through Silver Wave Records on September 13, 2005. In 2006, the album won Jim Wilson the Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album. [2]