Editing Buddy Miller (section)

== Early life and music career ==
Buddy was born in [[Fairborn, Ohio|Fairborn]], Ohio, near [[Dayton]], and his family ended up settling in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], New Jersey.<ref name="BM-nodep-2008">{{Cite web |last=Alden |first=Grant |title=Buddy Miller – A disquisition on the centrality of love and faith in the music of Buddy Miller and the several other reasons he is artist of the decade. And stuff. |url=http://nodepression.com/article/buddy-miller-disquisition-centrality-love-and-faith-music-buddy-miller-and-several-other |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603134220/http://nodepression.com/article/buddy-miller-disquisition-centrality-love-and-faith-music-buddy-miller-and-several-other |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |access-date=April 16, 2015 |website=No Depression |publisher=Freshgrass, LLC}}</ref><ref name="AllMusic">{{Cite web |title=Buddy Miller &#124; Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/buddy-miller-mn0000640419/biography |website=AllMusic}}</ref> His grandfather gave him the nickname "Buddy."<ref name="BM-crossrhythms-1995">{{Cite web |date=August 1, 1995 |title=Buddy Miller: The Nashville-based country singer, musician and producer |work=CrossRhythms |url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Buddy_Miller_The_Nashvillebased_country_singer_musician_and_producer/40337/p1/ |access-date=April 4, 2017}}</ref>

During the late 1970s he was in a country-rock band called the Desperate Men, which played in the NNJ and New York area, including clubs like Stanhope House, Cuss From Hoe and others.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} In 1975, he moved to [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], Texas and played [[rockabilly]] music in [[Ray Campi]]'s band. He auditioned for and played in the band Partners In Crime with Julie Griffin (soon to be his second wife).<ref name=BM-nodep-2008 /><ref name="BM-as-2009">{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Peter |date=March 1, 2009 |title=Buddy & Julie Miller: The Proof is On the Pizza Boxes or Nothing is Written in Stone |work=American Songwriter |url=https://americansongwriter.com/2009/03/buddy-julie-miller-the-proof-is-on-the-pizza-boxes-or-nothing-is-written-in-stone/ |access-date=March 6, 2017}}</ref>

In 1980, they moved to [[New York City]], and Miller formed the Buddy Miller Band,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dougherty |first=Steve |title=In Nashville, the Buddy System |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324616604578304381471557880 |access-date=April 14, 2015 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=February 21, 2013 |publisher=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> which included singer-songwriter [[Shawn Colvin]] on vocals and guitar. He also performed with [[Jim Lauderdale]] and [[Larry Campbell (musician)|Larry Campbell]].<ref name=BM-as-2009 /> Each Sunday, Miller performed in [[Kinky Friedman]]'s band at the [[Lone Star Cafe]].<ref name="BM-newyorker-2013">{{Cite magazine |last=Baird |first=Robert |date=March 1, 2013 |title=Buddy and Jim Take Manhattan |magazine=The New Yorker |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/buddy-and-jim-take-manhattan |access-date=April 4, 2017}}</ref>

Miller moved to [[Nashville]] in the 1990s, after a stint in Los Angeles. He worked on recording sessions as a guitar player and vocalist, and began producing his own records in his living room studio named Dogtown.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rotondi |first=James |title=Universal Audio |url=http://www.uaudio.com/blog/artist-interview-buddy-miller/ |access-date=April 14, 2015 |website=Buddy Miller on Making Records with Apollo and UAD-2 Plug-Ins |publisher=Universal Audio}}</ref><ref name="BM-paste-2002">{{Cite web |last=Winters |first=Pamela |date=December 24, 2002 |title=Buddy Miller: Playing with Guitars |work=Paste Magazine |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2002/12/buddy-miller-1.html |access-date=March 5, 2017 |archive-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306134922/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2002/12/buddy-miller-1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>