Jim Miller (musician)
Jim Miller (born 1954) is a rock and roll guitarist, singer, teacher, recording artist and band leader in the “jam band” genre’. He has performed with Oroboros and his present group, JiMiller Band. He has also founded and organized several events, including co-founding the Rock & Reggae Festival and founding Lazy Daisy and DeadFall at Nelson Ledges State Park in northeast Ohio. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Personal history. Miller was born July 2, 1954, at the historic St. Ann's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He has a wife, Beth, a son named Michael who plays guitar  in the JiMiller Band, and two stepchildren, Reid and Sarah Street. Oroboros. Miller co-founded Oroboros in 1980 as a Grateful Dead tribute band, which soon generated original music in the jam band genre. It was named for the ouroboros, an ancient symbol for infinity, depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Among the bands they have opened for are Go Ahead (with members of the Grateful Dead and Santana), The Radiators, Black Uhuru, Santana and Rusted Root. They co-founded the Rock & Reggae Festival in 1984 with First Light at Meadowoods Farm, originally as a benefit for  the Cleveland Free Clinic. They performed until 1998, produced five albums, and played a reunion concert in 2003. JiMiller Band. The JiMiller Band was founded in 1998 by Jim Miller, continuing to play the style of jam band music Miller played with Oroboros. The have performed since their founding, sharing the stage with such notable bands and artists as String Cheese Incident, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, Little Feat, Rusted Root and the Rhythm Devils, and produced four CDs. Original Songs. Sing It To Your Children - Link to Lyrics North Coast Waters - Link to Lyrics Agathodaimon - Link to Lyrics Shake It To  The Limit - Link to Lyrics Syzygy - Link to Lyrics Paradox - Link to Lyrics Win or Lose - Link to Lyrics Weather the Storm - Link to Lyrics Fog Over the Flats - Link to Lyrics Laughing at Harpo - Link to Lyrics Water Unto The Stone - Link to Lyrics Whispers of Love - Link to Lyrics Glad Messenger - Link to Lyrics The Griffon Song - Link to Lyrics King Kong II - Link to Lyrics See You Smile - Link to Lyrics Smell the Roses - Link to Lyrics The River Runs - Link to Lyrics Funk in A - Link to Lyrics Siddhartha's Train - Link to Lyrics The Friend  Song - Link to Lyrics Shakin' the Cage - Link to Lyrics Calliope - Oroboros - Link to Lyrics Do All You Can - Link to Lyrics Leaving This Place Too Soon - Link to Lyrics Far and Few - Link to Lyrics Big Black Snake Blues - Link to Lyrics San Juan Man - Link to Lyrics Cuyahoga Bayou - Link to Lyrics Won't Be Long - Link to Lyrics You Shine - Link to Lyrics