Sunday 3 April 2011

Steve Miller Band. Seven albums 1968 - 1972


Steve Miller had been playing blues in Chicago before he moved to San Francisco in 1967. He formed the Steve Miller Band there, and recorded his first album in 1968 in his typical psychedelic blues-rock style. This album, "Children of the Future", was followed by "Sailor", "Brave New World", "Your Saving Grace" and "Number 5" (1970). These albums from his first period show his music becoming mature although there is not much stylistic experimentation.

Album 6, "Rock Love", shows a change in style, but it is a very uneven album. Number 7: "Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden" (1972) is brilliant, I think. It's really a statement that closes this period off and gives a glimps of what is to come in the following albums (1973 - 1977 "The Joker", "Fly like an Eagle" and "Book of Dreams"): smoother, lighter, more pop oriented and with a lot of hit potential.

Go to the page of the month March (etinet) for links to the first seven albums.

4 comments:

  1. ....veel dank voor deze prachtige group, en zeven in één keer, leuk!!! TY for the lossless miller stuff, and the link 2 phrockblog, kisses

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  2. Thanks for the review but how I can download this great seven albums by Steve Miller Band? Any chance or what can I do.

    Have a good day.

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  3. here is all of them:

    http://musicmp3spb.org/artist/steve_miller_band.html

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  4. I'd like to download this, but don't want to install ILivid. So I will skip it.

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