Steve Miller Produces And Directs Creative Process For Career-Spanning Steve Miller Band ‘Ultimate Hits’ Collections To Be Released September 15 By Capitol/UMe

1CD, Digital and 2LP Edition Features 22 Top Hits and Rarities;

Expanded 2CD, Digital and 4LP Deluxe Edition Boasts 40 Essential Tracks,

Including Eight Previously Unreleased Recordings 

RARE LIVE VERSION OF “SPACE COWBOY” AVAILABLE NOW

 

Los Angeles – August 8, 2017 – Music legend Steve Miller has produced and personally directed the curation and creative process for two new, career-spanning Steve Miller Band Ultimate Hits collections, to be released September 15 by Capitol/UMe. Ultimate Hits is available now for preorder in a 1CD and digital edition featuring 22 essential Steve Miller Band tracks, including three previously unreleased rarities, and in an expanded 2CD and digital deluxe edition with 40 tracks, including the acclaimed band’s top hits, live tracks, and eight previously unreleased recordings from the studio and the stage. On October 27, both editions will be released on 180-gram vinyl in 2LP and 4LP deluxe packages, which are also available now for preorder.

Both Ultimate Hits editions feature Steve Miller Band’s biggest worldwide chart-toppers, including “Take The Money And Run,” “Rock’n Me,” Jet Airliner,” “The Joker,” Abracadabra,” “Jungle Love,” and “Fly Like An Eagle.”  The 1CD and digital edition adds two previously unreleased live recordings, “Living In The USA” and “Space Cowboy,” as well as a never-before-released Steve Miller solo recording of “Seasons.” The 2CD and digital deluxe edition also features those rarities, plus five more previously unreleased studio and live recordings, including a demo for “Take The Money And Run.” Ultimate Hits’ stunning cover art was designed and photographed by StormStudios in collaboration with Miller.

 

Preorder Steve Miller Band Ultimate Hits:

1CD; Digital; 2LP Vinyl – 
https://ume.lnk.to/SMBUltimateHits

2CD; Digital; 4LP Vinyl (Deluxe Edition) – 
https://ume.lnk.to/SMBUltimateHitsDeluxe

 

It was recently announced that Steve Miller has brought his entire catalogue of recorded music to Capitol, where he originally began his recording career in 1967. Miller has opened his vault/warehouse of music, footage, photos, memorabilia, artwork, handwritten notes, journals, and more to Capitol/UMe to include in his upcoming releases. Steve Miller Band’s new Ultimate Hits collections, produced by Miller, launch the initiative.

“Selecting material to include in these two collections and revisiting the creation of these recordings I’m reminded of how I learned to make multi-track recordings from Les Paul and play lead guitar from T Bone Walker. I’ve been blessed to work with so many wonderful musicians and engineers and friends over the years.  Mostly I want to thank you our fans who come out to our shows and listen to our records. I hope you enjoy this as much I did putting this together for you.” — Steve Miller

Running through Miller’s distinctive catalog is a combination of virtuosity and song craft. His parents were jazz aficionados – not to mention close friends of Les Paul and Mary Ford – so, as a budding guitarist, Miller absorbed valuable lessons from that musical tradition. When the family moved to Texas, Miller deepened his education in the blues, eventually moving to Chicago, where he played with Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy and Paul Butterfield.

One of the world’s most commercially successful and acclaimed artist/bands in the history of popular music, Steve Miller was a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene that upended American culture in the late ’60s. The Steve Miller Band released two LPs on Capitol Records in 1968: Children of the Future, and Sailor, which included “Living In The USA,” which became a staple on the new rock radio format. Next came Brave New World, the band’s third album including the hit “Space Cowboy,” and “My Dark Hour,” which Miller recorded in London with fellow label-mate, Paul McCartney, who is credited as Paul Ramon.

After the band’s next few albums, Your Saving Grace (1969), Rock Love (1971), Recall The Beginning (1972), and Number 5 (1970), Miller made some changes to the band, went to Los Angeles and produced his own record in 19 days. That album was The Joker. The title track became a Number One worldwide smash hit. Miller had crafted a brand of pure pop that was polished, exciting and irresistible that dominated radio in a way that few artists have ever managed. His next two albums, Fly Like an Eagle (1976) and Book of Dreams (1977), both went multiplatinum, and the hits they generated are among the most recognizable songs in pop music history. Hit followed hit in what seemed like an endless flow: “Take The Money And Run,” “Rock’n Me,” “Fly Like An Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Jungle Love,” and “Swingtown,” to name a few. In 1978, Capitol released Greatest Hits 1974–78, which has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide. Miller’s had a worldwide hit with “Abracadabra,” the title track of his 1982 album and in 1986, a #1 Billboard Rock Album Track with “I Want To Make The World Turn Around.” To this day, his songs are instantly recognizable when they come on the radio. Their hooks are the very definition of indelible.

In recent years, Miller has immersed himself in the blues once again. And, as always, whether he was riding the top of the charts or exploring the blue highways of American music, he is playing and singing with conviction and precision, passion and eloquence. At this stage of his life, in 2017, Miller feels more fulfilled than ever. He recently moved to New York, where he is on the Board of Jazz at Lincoln Center and on the Board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Musical Instrument Department. And, of course, he continues to record and is currently on tour. 

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STEVE MILLER BAND:  ULTIMATE HITS [1CD; Digital; 2LP]

1.  Harmony Of The Spheres 2

2.  Steve Miller at age five talking to his Godfather Les Paul

3.  Take The Money And Run

4.  Rock’n Me

5.  The Stake

6.  Threshold

7.  Jet Airliner

8.  The Joker

9.  Abracadabra

10.  Jungle Love

11.  Swingtown

12.  Dance, Dance, Dance

13.  Serenade From The Stars

14.  Space Intro

15.  Fly Like An Eagle

16.  Wild Mountain Honey

17.  Living In The USA (Live – Previously Unreleased)

18.  Space Cowboy (Live – Previously Unreleased)

19.  Seasons (Previously Unreleased)

20.  I Want To Make The World Turn Around

21.  Winter Time

22.  The Window

 

STEVE MILLER BAND:  ULTIMATE HITS (DELUXE EDITION) [2CD, Digital; 4LP]

CD 1

1.  Steve Miller at age five talking to his Godfather Les Paul

2.  Gangster Of Love (Live – Previously Unreleased)

3.  The Joker

4.  Baby’s Callin’ Me Home (Previously Unreleased)

5.  My Dark Hour

6.  Little Girl

7.  Living In The USA (Live – Previously Unreleased)

8.  Space Cowboy (Live – Previously Unreleased)

9.  Seasons (Previously Unreleased)

10.  Journey From Eden

11.  Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma

12.  Going To Mexico

13.  Kow Kow Calculator (Live – Previously Unreleased)

14.  Come On In My Kitchen (Live)

15.  Sugar Babe (Live)

16.  The Lovin’ Cup (Live)

17.  Dance, Dance, Dance

18.  Take The Money And Run

19.  Rock’n Me

20.  Space Intro

21.  Fly Like An Eagle

 

CD 2

1.  Wild Mountain Honey

2.  The Window

3.  Take The Money And Run (Demo) (Previously Unreleased)

4.  In The Midnight Hour (Previously Unreleased)

5.  Jungle Love

6.  Threshold

7.  Jet Airliner

8.  The Stake

9.  Swingtown

10.  Serenade From The Stars

11.  True Fine Love

12.  Heart Like A Wheel

13.  Abracadabra

14.  I Want To Make The World Turn Around

15.  Italian X Rays

16.  Don’t Cha Know

17.  Cry Cry Cry

18.  Stranger Blues

19.  Behind The Barn