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.
Steve Miller is one of the great North American musicians, who during the sixties was tanning blues classics such as "Howlin´Wolf" or "Muddy Waters" in Chicago.
In 1966 Steve Miller settled in San Francisco attracted by the emerging hippy movement and that same year he would form the Steve Miller Band.
Steve Miller had a very complete talent, with a refined technique and a great knowledge in the roots of North American music, so he had enough quality to become one of the figures of the moment.
After some first quality records that did not achieve the desired success in 1973, however, he achieved his first success with the album "The Joker", which would be followed three years later by other massive success such as "Fly Like an Eagle" and the next year "Book of Dreams".
These last three works contain some of the most recognized songs in the history of pop-rock music like "Take The Money and Run", "Rock´n Me", "Fly Like An Eagle", "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", or "Swingtown", all of them would appear in the compilation "Greatest Hits 1974-1978" that in 1978 Capitol Records released taking advantage of the great moment of form of the band.
This album would become one of the best-selling compilations in history, with more than 17 million copies around the world and a masterful collection of emblematic themes.
Just as with their acclaimed previous album, "Bingo", the Steve Miller Band's seventeenth album delves deeper into the blues; in fact, both albums were recorded simultaneously. For this recording, Steve Miller's band included vocalist Sonny Charles, harmonica player Norton Buffalo, and guitarist Kenny Lee Lewis, who, along with Miller himself, co-wrote the riffs and solos on this album. Composed of covers of blues greats, Miller manages to make each version his own while respecting the original's essence. Robert Johnson's classic "Sweet Home Chicago", John Lee Hooker's "No More Doggin' ", Willie Dixon's "Pretty Thing", Jimmy McCracklin's "The Walk", and Muddy Waters' "Can't Be Satisfied", sound so fresh and revitalized that their original composers would surely be pleased with the final result.
