Music Single : Living In the USA – The Steve Miller Band

This was one of the first songs I heard by Steve Miller.  I was a big fan back then. This is just a real cool song. Opening with the stock car sound effects. Yeah that’s living in the USA. The harp and the beat got me. It was kind of a John Mayall thing with the organ. The song has a punch to it. Steve made good music. This is the stuff I liked. Recorded in 1968. Unbelievable.

I liked the way Miller sang and strung his lyrics together. He always sounded like he was sure of his music. Like he was just letting it happen. There was a hip/street sound to it. Maybe the percussion. My buddies older brother, Dave the Roadie, had all these cool records and this was one of them. It introduced me to Boz Scaggs at the same time.

Along with ‘Space Cowboy’ (One of my first takes) CB was digging Miller’s music. I’ll do a take on one of those earlier albums down the road.

“Somebody get me a cheeseburger”