Book of Dreams

Fly Like an Eagle Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on t...	The Joker 1973 album on 180 gram vinyl.	Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary This is the album that, in one eagle-sized swoop, propelled Steve Miller from a well-regarded but hardly widely known psychedelic San Francisco-based bluesman to a chart-topping, hit-single-generating pop star. Capitol Records, who helped sire that transition by keeping him on ...	Sailor Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.	Brave New World Exclusive Japanese Limited Edition reissue of this 1969 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.
Children of the Future Exclusive Japanese Limited Edition reissue of this 1968 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.	Number 5 Exclusive Japanese Limited Edition reissue of this 1970 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2006.	Abracadabra	Boston "Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rocke...	Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978 Greatest-hits collections often deprive the listener of the chance to experience an artist's true scope of talent. Not so with Steve Miller--his strength has always been more in crafting an occasional blast of FM-radio heaven rather than a dozen solid album tracks. Greatest Hits...

Etherial
I remember when this album came out. I was working in a furniture store and when not assembling was delivering all sorts of chairs and tables and so on. I still remember a drive we made in the delivery van that took us on the road for a couple hours. We listened to this album in its entirety. It was great road music and cemented my memory of that summer. As I comb through my LP collection and burn CDs that then get dumped into my iPod, I sometimes find that I am missing music that for one reason or another, I never had, or perhaps had on (gasp) 8-track or cassette tape. It would have to be a pretty hard-to-find album for me to justify plugging in the tape machine and burning to CD, not to mention "settling" for a lower-quality result. My personal standard for buying CDs is to avoid buying any that I have in good condition on LP. If the LP is damaged or the recording is new, I will go for the CD. The other exception to the "rule" is for offerings that contain substantial or in some other way "must have" content not present on the LP. This album easily qualified for purchase on CD since I had no copy of it to begin with. I bought it along with "Fly Like an Eagle" and "The Joker", seeking to complete my collection of essential Steve Miller Band recordings. Clearly there are other works that reach deeper into the past and touch the present but for me these albums, and this one in particular hold the essence of what Steve Miller is about. All the radio hits are here (Jet Airliner, Swingtown, True Fine Love, Jungle Love). Some of them perhaps overplayed but still good to hear. Then there are the less often heard gems like "Winter Time", Wish Upon a Star" and "Sacrifice") that speak to a different side of Steve Miller. It was as much for these tunes that I wanted this album as any of the more well known tracks.

studio Miller
While live Steve Miller is a LOT better in my opinion (because of his willingness to experiment with creative ways to alter many of his songs) this is still a pretty decent album in its own right. "Swingtown" and "The Stake" are the highlights for me, with the dreaminess of the former and the Joe Walsh-like guitar playing of the latter. "True Fine Love" is a good vocal melody track, and "Jungle Love "deserved to be a major hit because of its immediately likeable pop sound. The only bad song is "Jet Airliner" which features a verse melody that drags clumsily (and rather annoyingly too). Steve Miller never had a perfect album though, but this is probably the best of his popular mid to late 70's period.

Book of Dreams
ESSENTIAL ALBUM!!! It's a hard choice between this album & Fly Like an Eagle as to which one is best. They are so similar it's hard to distinguish them. Steve Miller actually recorded both albums at the same time which explains their similarity. Great songs on this album include "Winter Time", "Swingtown" & "Jet Airliner". Steve Miller found his commercial voice with these two albums & exploded on the charts. It was a complete change from his previous efforts & his later efforts, though in a somewhat similar vein, didn't measure up to these two albums. Unless you're a committed Steve Miller fan you really don't need to go beyond these two albums.

A Top 100 album!!!
Do I really have to say anything aobut this? If I do, forget it, you would not understand!!!!!

Fly Like an Eagle Part 2 and Steve's best
The better 12 of the 24 songs Steve recorded for Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams are here. Highly recommended and this may be his best.