Sonny Miller

Sonny Miller is a journeyman Appalachian fiddler who developed a mastery of the traditional fiddle music repertoire as handed down from generation to generation among the Appalachian settlers. He was from roughly the same era as Kenny Baker, meaning old enough to have picked up this type of music first hand, but young enough to still be alive. Perhaps the greatest exposure this fiddler had in his career was in the early '80s, when bandleader Del McCoury put him in the lineup of his Dixie Pals along with fellow old-time and early bluegrass vet mandolinist Herschel Sizemore. The...