Steve Miller Band - J50: The Evolution Of The Joker (2023) [FLAC]

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Steve Miller Band - J50_ The Evolution Of The Joker (2023) [FLAC]
Country: USA
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Format: FLAC (*tracks)
Quality: Lossless [44,1kHz/16 bit]
Time: 02:01:24
Full Size: 738.19 MB

Steve Miller's segue from the late '60s cosmic blues of Sailor and Children of the Future into his new role as a "space cowboy" was a gradual one that took place mostly out of the public eye and over a half dozen albums that would be largely unrecognizable to many of Miller's latest fans. Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden, Your Saving Grace, and Rock Love were weedy, ramshackle affairs that sound as unfocused as they do uncommercial but they were also where he worked out the foundational compositional approaches that would define his sound throughout the '70s.

You can hear the transformation on this J50 set, and the "early" version of "Mary Lou" may be the very point at which things pivoted. In this studio rehearsal take, the song sounds like a clanking, loose-limbed blues-raver (much like many of the tracks that Miller recorded a couple years previously), with banging percussion, warbly keyboard lines, and vocals that are high on vibe and low on precision. This set immediately sequences the album version of "Mary Lou" after the rehearsal, so you can easily hear that it's the same song. Whereas the rehearsal version wouldn't have been out of place on Rock Love, the album version-with all the same component parts, just rendered in a distinctly more thoughtful manner-is an absolutely new sound for the Steve Miller Band, the one that would make him one of the biggest stars of the decade.

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