Steve Miller's says his next album will be "a really interesting thing" where the classic rocker combines jazz instrumentals with blues lyrics. It couldn't be further away from familiar Miller originals like "The Joker," "Abracadabra," "Rock 'N Me" and "Fly Like an Eagle" - all of them huge hits in the 1970s and '80s. And Miller wouldn't have it any [...]
This is how it started: Software-type person: "You've never seen Evil Dead?!!" (laughter ensues). Me: "Have you ever seen 8 1/2?" Software-type person: "Uhm...no." Me: "By Fellini?" Software-type person: "Who?" Me: "You've never seen 8 1/2?!!!!!!" (much laughter ensues). This was just some chatter at the start of a project meeting at work. I'd had a conversation with one of [...]

One thing I love about prog rock from the 1970s is that I know very little about it. All I do know is that it puts a smile on my face. My single most favorite thing about the genre is the weaving of so many entities into one musical extravaganza. Trace was a Dutch band created after a break up of Eskeption and formed by Rick van der Linden . On January 1, 1975 Trace released their second album Birds . One aspect of listening to this older music that I've never heard of [...]
Fans of the late Peter Banks will get another chance to hear his unique guitar stylings on a forthcoming cover of Steve Miller's "Winter Time," to be issued as part of a Miller tribute project produced by Billy Sherwood. The founding Yes guitarist will be joined on the track by vocalist Sonja Kristina of Curved Air fame, and Sherwood on [...]

I'm at a loss as to why contemporary producers don't spend more time with the classics - soul, R&B, classic rock... you get the picture. They're the basis for 90% of the music that makes the top charts - most of which are at this point in age merely contemporary rip-offs; shadows of decades-old former greatness. I mean, as long as you're going to spend time working something over, it might as well be good, right? Here's to two artists who had the good sense to stick with something solid. Now if we could only get them to abandon their [...]
Easily one of the best Steve Miller songs of the early '70s ( Three Best Songs , 2/7/12), "The Joker" was also his first #1 hit.
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First talked about in February 2012, Steve Mill’s “You Really Know EP” gets re-extended and re-blessed by the masks of the Supernova Italians, and the British DJ / producer Citizen. Letting loose their own spells of freedom onboard a vintage Steve Mill Original, Supernova bump up their rubberty-rub-rub Italian groove by using lots of splendid pad sequences and wave splashing execution. Citizen spreads out his creative scope rising up the darkness very well, but with every black hallucination that rears its ugly head there comes a bright light, and that shining wizard from Citizen [...]
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The luscious enhancement and appetizing accentuation of a production seem to illuminate more brightly when it’s being played at certain times of night; as well as during various points of the day too. Ol’ Stevey-boy-Mill is most certainly all-man, and gliding along like a couple of nicely dressed skating duo’s on a sea bed of frozen ice, are three natural flavours to get all sorts of desert flavoured fans and their dancing spoons & mouths watering. ‘Gliders’ and ‘The Streets’ have a typical back room & “setting the pace” fashion to them, but a [...]
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The luscious enhancement and appetizing accentuation of a production seem to illuminate more brightly when it’s being played at certain times of night; as well as during various points of the day too. Ol’ Stevey-boy-Mill is most certainly all-man, and ... Continue reading

♫ "Abracadabra" - Steve Miller Band (1982) "i wanna reach out and grab ya..."
The Steve Miller Band was huge when I was a kid. Everybody owned Book of Dreams and Fly Like An Eagle. That's all I ever owned. So, it's been kinda fun to dig into a famous artist's back catalog. Check out the liner dedication: "This album is dedicated to the people in our struggle to bring sanity to the world [...]
Sharie Nayland‘s voice is like ice water and mercury dripped down the small of your back in a darkened room. She’s like a post-apocalypse metal Grace Jones or Eartha Kitt, her vibrato just too-tremulous enough to give this music the exact amount of the creeps it needs. Avoid any acid while listening to The Wounded Kings’ [...]
Les Paul and friends celebrate his 90th birthday.
Last Try (deep&dub techno - Forthcoming on Glider Records) by Fingers In The Noise Issho - We'll Make It Through (Original Mix) by Issho Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You (Casbah 73 extended edit) by CASBAH 73 Night The Lights Went Out - The Trammps (Dimitri - Paris Re-Edit) by STEVEMILLER [...]
The Happy Carriage (Original Mix). Beatport Link Oron Download Artist: Steve Mill Title: The Happy Carriage Label: Urban Torque Cat nr.: UT138 Genre: Deep House Quality: 320 kbps Source: WEB Store Rls date: 17-07-2011 Webstore: beatport.com Tracks: 1. The Happy Carriage 7:17 2. Hit This City 9:43 3. One Of A Kind 5:54

Steve Miller, wearing a blue blazer with jeans, looks a lot like Bill Murray these days. Rumpled. Cool. Mellow. That good time vibe you hear in all those songs? That's the vibe you get from Steve. 1001Songs met him disembarking from his yacht, the ABRACADABRA, on a pier leading to his 80 acre estate on San Juan Island. Steve showed me around the yacht. He and some friends has gone out into deeper waters [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Songwriters have often penned odes to being hot for teacher. But in the '80s, the Police turned the tables with 'Don't Stand So Close to Me,' about a teacher who lusts after a student. That [...]
The 32nd annual Blues Museum Awards ceremony was held Thursday night at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. Produced by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the event belonged to Buddy Guy. The Louisiana native claimed four BMAs, as his celebrated Living Proof release claimed song and album of the year honors. Guy was named best contemporary blues artist and claimed the B.B.
Ottawa Bluesfest is Canada's equivalent to Summerfest, a week-long, all-out music extravaganza featuring more acts than the total population of Delaware. This year's edition, set for July 5-17 on the grounds of the Canadian War Museum, is topped by the reunited Soundgarden, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab For Cutie, A Perfect Circle, The Black Keys, Erykah Badu, The Tragically Hip, Death For Above 1979, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, and Ben Harper. Other notables include The Roots, Peter Frampton, John Fogerty, Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Huey Lewis and the News, Jennifer Hudson, Rise Against, Dropkick Murphys, Tegan [...]
We all know Boz Scaggs, right? The guy from Silk Degrees, the 1976 smash that spawned hit single after hit single after hit single - the million-selling "Lowdown," "Lido Shuffle," "What Can I Say," "We're All Alone." The truth is, though, that it was the former Steve Miller sideman's seventh solo release, and Scaggs has continued issuing varied and vital