Born in 1900 Miller became one of the most influential and enigmatic characters of the early country music movement. Singing in the Minstrel circuit he combined the voice of the black entertainers with the music of the white Tin Pan Alley composers. Though he quickly made it to a front position in Field's Minstrels he never catapulted from Blackface comedy to serious entertainment. His recording band the "Georgia Crackers" included early Jazz greats as Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and the young Gene Krupa on drums. His style of singing was memerising to young artists who queued to see him perform. His influence can be easily detected in much of the early work of Bob Wills, who also started his career as a blackfaced comedian too. When Tommy Duncan auditioned for the Texas Playboys he was asked to deliver his rendition of "Right or Wrong", one of Millers bigger successes, and soon the Playboy's version became an all time standard. There is some evidence that a young Jimmie Rodgers lingered at Millers shows two years prior to his own breakthrough picking up some of his yodeling styles. Eddy Arnold made his "Anytime" to a No. 1 in 1946. When in 1949 Hank Williams made the "Lovesick Blues" his biggest hit, he could pass it as his own composition. Emmett Miller was forgotten by then already, and died in 1960.