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Call Him The Space Cowboy: Steve Miller Band's Live "Joker" Gets Wide Release From Edsel

October 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Steve Miller Band - Joker LiveThe Edsel label has recently continued its association with the catalogue of the Steve Miller Band with the first wide release of 2014's The Joker - Live in Concert.

Miller commented in 2014 of the release, "When several friends and colleagues reminded me that it was the 40th birthday of the Joker album, I smiled--and started playing the whole album's songs live again.  And at the end of the last tour realized we had a great new record that we wanted to share with our fans. We hope you like it as much as we did playing and recording it."

The Joker, of course, was The Steve Miller Band's commercial breakthrough as Miller gently nudged his band's psychedelic blues-rock style into something more accessible to mainstream listeners. The SMB's eighth album, the 1973 release featured Miller, bassist Gerald Johnson, keyboardist Dick Thompson and drummer John King (joined by guest bassist Lonnie Turner and pedal steel guitarist Sneaky Pete Kleinow).  The Capitol album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of its chart-topping title song which still receives classic rock rotation today; The Joker also set the stage for such subsequent SMB hits as "Take the Money and Run," "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Jet Airliner."

This new live iteration of The Joker features the band line-up of Miller, bassist/vocalist Kenny Lee Lewis, drummer Gordy Knudtson, keyboardist/vocalist Joseph Wooten, vocalist Sonny Charles (of Checkmates Ltd. and "Black Pearl" fame) and guitarist/vocalist Jacob Petersen, with guest appearances from Lonnie Turner (who died in April 2013), drummer Gary Mallaber, and, on pedal steel, Jeff Kearns.  The Joker - Live in Concert has all nine tracks from the original album, though not in album order.  Edsel's reissue of the 2014 Sailor Records release has been mastered by Kent Hertz and is housed in a digipak.  There are no liner notes or information as to recording dates or venues.

The Steve Miller Band is currently on tour with dates scheduled in the United States through November 7 when the band takes the stage at New York's Beacon Theatre.  The Joker - Live in Concert is available now from Edsel at the links below!

Steve Miller Band, The Joker - Live in Concert (Sailor Records, 2014 - reissued Edsel EDSA 5049, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. Come On in My Kitchen
  2. The Lovin' Cup
  3. Something to Believe In
  4. Evil
  5. Mary Lou
  6. Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
  7. Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
  8. Sugar Babe
  9. The Joker

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Steve Miller Band

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. George says

    October 27, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    A 2015 remaster/reissue of a 2014 release seems fairly pointless. I would rather see Rock Love or Recall The Beginning make it to disc.

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  2. Mark I. says

    October 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Cool. Listening right now on Apple Music.

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