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Lyrics & Music The Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams (1977)

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Name:	Lyrics & Music The Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams (1977)
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The Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams

Book of Dreams is the tenth album by American rock band The Steve Miller Band, released in 1977.

* Steve Miller - Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer, Sitar

* Byron Allred - piano, Synthesizer

* Gary Mallaber - Drums, Percussion

* David Denny - Guitar

* Lonnie Turner - Bass

* Greg Douglass - Slide guitar

* Norton Buffalo - Harmonica on tracks 3 & 10

* Les Dudek - Guitar on track 9

* Kenny Johnson - Drums on track 9

* Jachym Young - piano on track 9

* Charles Calamise - Bass on track 9

* Curley Cooke - Acoustic guitar on track 9

* Bob Globb - Bass on track 3

* Engineers - Mike Fusaro, Jim Gains, Win Kutz, Ken Perry

* Produced by Steve Miller

* Executive Producer - John Palladino

* Art Direction - Roy Kohara

* Illustration - Kelly and MouseFormat: MP3

Bitrate: 320 kB/s

Channels: Stereo

Samplerate: 44100

Cover: Yes

Length: 37:56

Steve Miller (born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter.

Beginning his career in blues and blues rock, Miller's music later changed to a softer, more pop-oriented sound which earned him major success with a string of hit singles and successful albums from the mid-1970s through the early '80s.[/color]

Biography

Miller was born to Dr George "Sonny" Miller, a pathologist, jazz enthusiast and amateur recording engineer, and Bertha, a jazz-influenced singer. In 1950, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. His first guitar chords were taught to him when he was five years old by the legendary Les Paul, pioneer of the electric guitar and multi-track recording, as he was also Miller's godfather. Les Paul and his wife, Mary Ford, were regular visitors at the Miller house. In fact, Steve Miller's father was best man at their wedding. Miller still uses some of the techniques taught him at that time.

While at St. Mark's School of Texas, Miller formed his first band, The Marksmen. Miller taught classmate Royce Scaggs some guitar chords so he could join the band; Scaggs became better known by his nickname, Boz. Miller graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in the Lakewood area of Dallas in 1961. Miller attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the 1960s, where he formed The Ardells. Scaggs joined the Ardells the next year. Ben Sidran was added to the Ardells as a keyboardist the following year. Miller was only sixteen when he started college, and dropped out six credit hours shy of a literature degree. Les Paul encouraged young Miller to utilize his prodigious talents, and much of Miller's success has been attributed to Paul's tutelage during his childhood and teenage years.

Prior to forming the Steve Miller Band, Miller was in a band with Barry Goldberg called the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band. They formed in 1965, and released one single, before Miller left the band.

In 1967, Miller formed the Steve Miller Band (at first called "The Steve Miller Blues Band", the word "Blues" later being dropped), with Miller handling vocals, and in 1968 released an album, Children of the Future, the first in a series of discs rooted solidly in the psychedelic blues style that dominated the San Francisco music scene at the time. Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace and Number 5 followed. These albums performed respectably on the album charts but failed to yield a hit. This first period in Miller's music formed part of double album compilation Anthology, which includes a guest appearance on bass guitar, drums and backing vocals by the then Beatle, Paul McCartney, on the song, "My Dark Hour". Boz Scaggs rejoined Miller for his first two albums before starting his solo career.

1973's The Joker marked the start of the second phase of Miller's career: less hard-rock oriented and simplistic, the album featured a number one hit in the U.S. in the title track as well as several other popular tunes. "The Joker" hit Number One on the UK Singles Chart in September 1990 after it was used on a television commercial.

Miller followed up The Joker with Fly Like an Eagle in 1976 and Book of Dreams in 1977. This pair of albums represented the peak of Miller's commercial career, both reaching the top echelons of the album charts and spawning a lengthy series of hit singles, including "Rock'n Me", "Take the Money and Run", "Jet Airliner" and "Jungle Love". While some critics were disappointed at Miller for abandoning his more ambitious approach and socially-aware lyrics for a more softer rock and derivative blues tunes, [citation needed] fans gravitated towards the catchy, melodic songs in great numbers, and the Steve Miller Band co-headlined a major stadium tour with The Eagles in 1977 (with opening act, Pablo Cruise).

On the heels of this massive success, Miller took a long hiatus from recording and touring, emerging in 1981 with Circle of Love, an ambitious album possibly intended to appease critics of his new style. Sales were disappointing, however, and in 1982 he returned to the pop formula with another hit album, Abracadabra. This was Miller's last great commercial success; a series of collections, live albums and attempts to find a new style appeared sporadically, but after 1993 Miller gave up producing records altogether. However, he collaborated with Paul McCartney on the former Beatle's 1997 Grammy-nominated album, Flaming Pie.

Prior to the start of his 2007 tour it has been revealed that a new studio album titled "The Truth About The Lies" is being recorded. The title track was co-written with Bruce Hornsby. Other song titles are "Oh, It's Just Me Again", and "Short Sleeves, Clip-On Tie (Used Car)".

Book of Dreams is the tenth album by American rock band The Steve Miller Band, released in 1977.

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There are so many nice things you could say about the new Steve Miller album. You could say, for instance, that it sounds great turned way up loud, with its full-tilt rhythms propelling you into some kind of bright crystal space. You could talk about how open the sound is, how porous and rich, and how sunny and downright friendly Miller's voice sounds. You could rap endlessly about the skillful use of modern recording technique to achieve exciting textural effects. But the important thing to say, and it ought to be done straightaway, is how dazzlingly appropriate this music would be if it were coupled with some videotape of West Coast hang gliders and used for a Pepsi commercial.

To those who have been dismayed by the progress of the Beach Boys' more or less grotesque attempts at a creative comeback, the recent commercial success of such journeyman survivors as Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac and Steve Miller is a heartening sign. It means that laid-back rock and no-thought lyrics can still be had in something other than the dude-ranch space-out of such L.A. hustlers as Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles. What is at stake is the future of open-highway rock. The success of Frampton, Mac and Miller—especially Mac and Miller—means the genre is not being abandoned to the cosmic cowpokes.

This is important for variety's sake, and also because the cowpokes' vision of life as some sort of sun-drenched avocado sandwich seems essentially wrong. With the Beach Boys unsteady on their lurch toward reality, it's up to people like Miller to attempt the mindlessly breezy music the whole world wants and not even Paul McCartney can deliver every time. But this is tricky business; you can't just retread the old Beach Boys stuff. They preached fun to a generation that was opening up; Miller has to preach fun to a generation that's closing in.

Miller has a strong nesting instinct. His idea of fun is apparently a combination of rural isolation and independence and happy domesticity. As the title of an album that's mostly filled with songs about love, his Book of Dreams is not much different from a hope chest. In "Swingtown" he coos, "Come on and dance/Let's make some romance." In "Jet Airliner" and "My Own Space" (neither of them his own composition, it's true) he sings about the need for a home and the pain of leaving it. Then there's "True Fine Love," in which he really alters his pitch: "So come on pretty baby," he sings this time, "we're going to raise a family."

This pretty well sums up what Miller has to say. Most of his energies have apparently gone into the sound, and with good results. At its best, Miller's music has always been rich, clipped and characterized by a powerful forward momentum not unlike Fleetwood Mac's. At its worst—when he was hampered by a schizoid image, a revolving-door band and the all-too-apparent absence of any purpose to his work—it was sloppy, aimless and dull. But Miller began to pull himself out of his slump with The Joker in 1973, and thereafter he took steps to ensure that things went left.

Although his first nine albums had been crowded into a six-year span, he took his time recording a followup. When he finally released Fly like an Eagle 13 months ago, it went crazy in the record stores—Top Ten for months, almost triple platinum, three Top Ten singles. The record was so big that Book of Dreams, which tentatively had been scheduled for release as early as last December, had to be kept on hold for months. Now it's shipped gold; a repeat success appears inevitable.

This is logical. Fly like an Eagle and Book of Dreams are essentially twin albums, mostly recorded during the three-year period that followed The Joker. Fly like an Eagle is maybe a little stronger—several of the songs on Book of Dreams were written by current or former Steve Miller Band members—but even that is debatable. There's the same steady self-assurance here, the same easy confidence that made Fly like an Eagle so easy to enjoy. Miller obviously knows exactly what he's doing. Every production decision—as usual, he's produced himself—was made to maximize the dramatic impact of the deep, easy roll that powers most of these songs. The producer's touch is light and sure; it brightens the sound and stretches its spatial dimensions. Miller's voice, open and adolescent as ever, comes through fresh and bouncy. All this gives songs like "Swingtown" and "True Fine Love" and "Jet Airliner" the kind of simple-minded but irresistible appeal that's so essential to Miller's style.

What Miller gained during his three-year absence from the music scene was the security to drop his masks. Fly like an Eagle was the first album on which he did not hide behind the kind of persona he ridiculed and apparently laid to rest with The Joker. What's emerged instead is the image of a "real" Steve Miller—a jocular outdoorsman who's thinking about giving up his Ferrari (according to People) for a tractor. The real Steve Miller just wants to settle down and raise kids and live in bucolic splendor and have it seem as much fun as hang gliding. So do millions of his peers. It's nice they're getting together. (RS 243)

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- FRANK ROSE

Trackslist:

01. Threshold

02. Jet Airliner

03. Winter Time

04. Swingtown

05. True Fine Love

06. Wish upon a Star

07. Jungle Love

08. Electro Lux Imbroglio

09. Sacrifice

10. Stake

11. My Own Space

12. Babes in the Wood

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