6364. The Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy
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| From: Brave New World; Year: 1969; Genre: Blues Rock/Psychedelic Rock |
Was just in the mood for something from Steve Miller and his band's earlier work.
Brave New World is and probably will always be my favourite record from this period; the first five albums or there about to be exact. This was also the first after Boz Scaggs left, which is a minus in my opinion, but not enough for me. Even at this point Les Paul's advise to make his band his namesake was paying dividends; no matter who came or left it was always Steve Miller's band.
Anyway, getting far off track here....
Space Cowboy is one of the three songs from the record that can occasionally get airplay, along with the title track and My Dark Hour, which featured Beatle Paul McCartney on backing vocals and a few instruments.
Funny enough, five albums later on the song The Joker he references this track in the very first line of it. "Some people call me the Space Cowboy...." Which would turn out to be him and his band's biggest hit if I'm remembering correctly.
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