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 Origianlly Posted January 2019 Revised and Updated 2026

A Strange Coincidence Leads to Thoughts of the Steve Miller Band

Ok so this isn’t woo woo weird it does to me seems the odds for this happening seem fairly low! This morning I was listening to a Throw Way Back Playlist that I made sometime last year.. The Steve Miller Band’s song “Quicksilver Girl”  from the band’s second album Sailor is in the playlist.

When a Song Follows You Home

Now here where it gets kinda weird. When I came out of the library I turned back on Deep Tracks on Sirius XM Radio. Ai particularly like to listen to Deep Tracks when DJ Earl Bailey is on, his voice of  takes me back to those days of yore on Philadelphia radio station WMMR.Those were the days!

Back When DJs Chose the Music

When the DJ could choose what he or she was going to play!! Of course that got some DJs in trouble when they played songs they weren’t supposed to play. The DJ most famous for that was Steve Leon aka”My Father’s Son” son of Max Leon the owner of WDAS FM. Leon passed away in 2012 and you can read about his exploits here in his obituary.

Ok so now let’s get to the – what are the odds of that happening moment. As I was leaving the library, guess what song came on Deep Tracks. Yeah you guessed it “ Quicksilver Girl”! While it may not be that weird to some I found it amazing that I heard the same 51-year-old song twice within three hours!

Thoughts About the Steve Miller Band

Anyway that got me to thinking about the Steve Miller Band.  I was a big fan through the band’s first seven albums . All seven of them are in vinyl collection. I had the Joker on 8 track tape! Anyway after The Joker became a hit Steve Miller became a radio band for me.

The next Miller album that entered my music library was his 2010 release Bingo! Yes if you do the math that’s 42 years after the release of the band’s first album! Steve followed that really good album with Let Your Hair Down In 2011. That was also a damn fine album.

From My Shelves to This Playlist

Here’s a playlist containing some of my favorite tracks from the Steve Miller albums in my vinyl collection!!

Links to Explore the Steve Miller Band

• Artist’s Website
• Instagram
• Tik Tok
• Spotify
• Amazon

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Here’s what Wikipedia says about Fresh Cream:

Cream’s debut album, Fresh Cream, was recorded and released in 1966. The album reached #6 in the UK charts and #39 in the United States.[23] It mainly consisted of blues covers, including “Four Until Late”, “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” (an old blues number recorded by Hambone Willie Newbern in 1926, which became a blues standard thanks to versions recorded by Muddy Waters and Elmore James in the early 1950s), “Spoonful” (written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf), “I’m So Glad” (written by Skip James) and “Cat’s Squirrel”. The rest of the album featured songs written (or co-written) by Jack Bruce, most notably “I Feel Free” (which was a UK hit single,[3] but only included on the American edition of the LP), and two by Ginger Baker (one of which, “Toad”, contained one of the earliest examples of a drum solo in rock music). Ginger Baker also collaborated with Jack Bruce’s then-wife Janet Godfrey to write “Sweet Wine”; Godfrey also provided lyrics for the trio’s first original blues composition, her husband’s “Sleepy Time Time.”

My stand out tracks on the album include “I Feel Free”, “I’m So Glad”,  “Spoonful” and “Toad”. While I liked the version of “Spoonful” on this album I think the live version on Wheels of Fire” is the better version, while “Toad” is better at 5 plus minutes rather than 14 on “Wheels of Fire”. I didn’t care for their cover of “Rollin’ and Tumblin’ ‘”

Now Surrealistic Pillow which was  Jefferson Airplane’s break out album and the first to feature Grace Slick. From Wikipedia:

The group’s second LP, Surrealistic Pillow, recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rick Jarrard in only thirteen days at a cost of $8000, launched the Airplane to international fame. Released in February 1967, the LP entered the Billboard 200 album chart on March 25 and remained there for over a year, peaking at #3. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[9] The name “Surrealistic Pillow” was suggested by the ‘shadow’ producer of the album, Jerry Garcia, when he mentioned that, as a whole, the album sounded “as Surrealistic as a pillow is soft.” Although RCA Victor would not acknowledge Garcia’s considerable contributions to the album with a “Producer” credit, he is listed in the album’s credits as “spiritual advisor.”

In addition to the group’s two best-known tracks, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love”, the album featured “My Best Friend” by former drummer Skip Spence, Balin’s driving “Plastic Fantastic Lover,” and the atmospheric Balin-Kantner ballad “Today”. A reminder of their earlier folk incarnation was Kaukonen’s solo acoustic guitar tour de force, “Embryonic Journey” (his first composition), which referenced contemporary acoustic guitar masters such as John Fahey and helped to establish the popular genre exemplified by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke.

So with standout tracks like: “Somebody to Love”, “3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds”. “White Rabbit”. “Plastic Fantastic Lover”, “Comin’ Back to Me” and “Embryonic Journey”” The winner for me is Surrealistic Pillow.

Here’s one of my favorite tracks from the album “3/5 of a mile in Ten Seconds” Clapton may be “God” but I’ll take Jorma’s guitar work!

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So last night when I was listening to Jake Holmes I pulled out the album sleeve and looked at the other artist on the Polydor Label at that time. Some of the names are only familiar and a couple I do have the albums. Area Code 615 and John Mayall’s Empty Rooms and a favorite Mayall’s The Turning Point. Here’s a quick Poll Which Artist’s album do you have? or have you heard of?

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According to my Avalon Ballroom 2010 calender, on this day in 1967 Quicksilver Messenger Service played the Avalon Ballroom and in 1968 Cream, Jeremy and the Satyrs and Blood Sweat and Tears played Winterland. Ok proof that I didn’t just start liking jam bands but liked jam bands before they were labeled jam bands. Quicksilver’s album Happy Trails and their cover of “Who Do You Love” are all time favorites and Cream’s fourteen minute drum solo “Toad” would make any of today’s jam bands proud!

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