Johnnie Miller began playing guitar on street corners in Greenville when he was a teenager. He acquired the name Cootie Stark somehow, somewhere along the way. While still a juvenile he picked up a few guitar phrases from some of the legendary bluesmen who passed through here; men like Pink Anderson and Baby Tate. After  more than fifty years of playing the Piedmont blues on street-corners throughout the South, Cootie Starks released two records in 1999 and 2003. He toured the US and Europe many times before his death in 2005.