BREAU MILLER WEST
B i o g r a p h y
Mark "Guitar" Miller
(born in the northern Maine town of Houlton and raised in East Millinocket, Maine)
"The best blues man in the land!" Brad Delp
"Mark is the real thing." John Hammond Jr.
"I've only caught you from the audience a few times, but you have always blown me away."
Bob Ludwig - President of Gateway
"Mark creates a masterpiece when he plays a solo"
Harry King
"Miller’s crunching, biting tone and high-end attack could make your hair stand on end. There's a lot to like, especially for guitar aficionados.”
Blues Review Magazine.
Mark has been playing guitar since he was six years old, and for more than 45 years Mark Miller made his living by playing guitar. In the early days, he played with his brothers on the porch. In high school he had a band playing top 40. Later he played with a number of prominent bands as a "hired gun," did studio work for numerous CDs, then he came back to Maine where he has reigned over the music scene ever since.
A guitar-player's guitar player, Mark Miller knows how to fill a room with heart and soul, no matter what its size -- from small hip clubs to large festivals. His accomplishments include opening for national acts, including B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Taj Mahal, Pat Travers, Waylon Jennings, Jonathan Edwards, Peter Wolf and others. He’s played onstage with Johnny Rawls, Jimmy Johnson, James Montgomery, Debbie Davies, Buddy Spicher, Jimmy Day, Dick Curless. Mark performed with Brad Delp at the Boston Music Awards, with Brad's band - whom he worked with on Brad's solo project for 3 years. Mark was also the winner of the 1989 Lenny Breau Memorial Trophy - handed to him by Lenny's mother.