Steve Miller Band-Fly Like An Eagle (1976)

Steve Miller is one of those musicians whose passion for blues and rock made him one of the best artisans of the style, with a charisma and a power to create great songs, a maker of hits, but never a leading man, despite the large number of gold and platinum records he has achieved throughout his career.
Born in Dallas in 1943 at the age of twelve, he was impressed by the revolution that Elvis Presley's rock signified, and with a classmate he would form his first band, that companion would later become a shining star: Boz Scaggs.
After several more bands, all influenced by soul and rock, Miller moved to Chicago, where he played a lot of blues, forming the band The Goldberg Miller Band with Barry Goldberg.
There he would also record his first albums, but they did not obtain desired success. Some time later he would move to California where he would form his definitive band The Steve Miller Band. After playing gigs for quite some time, they recorded various soundtracks for documentaries and even opened for Chuck Berry.
In 1968 the first two albums of the band "Children of the Future" and "Sailor" appeared, works still quite immature and rough, but which envision a promising future.
During the period from 1969 to 1973 they recorded five more albums, all of them with different formations, until in 1974 they finally achieved success with the album "The Joker", which became number one on the charts in America and received many accolades and accolades.
"The Joker" is a perfect rock compendium, without excessive implications in its contents. Two years would last the hangover of this successful album, which would be followed by the superb "Fly Like an Eagle", with which it would get four platinum records.
Unlike the blues-based sounds of his previous works, for this new album Steve Miller reinvents himself with a melodic rock style, with very subtle approaches to hard rock. With the initial and atmospheric "Space Intro" this album was Steve Miller's best commercial option to date, thanks to songs like "Fly Like An Eagle" one of the iconic songs of the seventies, the enchanting "Serenade", the tremendously Addictive "Rock 'n' Free" or "Take The Money and Run" which was one of the hits of the album.