Charlie played on Your Saving Grace album. Norton toured w/Steve for years and plays on Steve's last recordings to date, which are actually blues recordings. I also believe these were Norton's last studio recordings. ---------- The Iceman
Children of the Future was my first Steve Miller Band album, and I wore it out.
Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs started out playing blues...met in Texas in high school, and then at University of Wisconsin they played with blues bands. The commercial stuff later on never did much for me, but Boz released an EXCELLENT blues album in 1997 called "Come on Home". Only a few songs feature harp, however (Found Love and Early in the Morning).
The harp player on Come on Home was actually Harry Duncan...the Executive Producer of the album. ;-) Amazon has this CD for $12 with free shipping, currently, and it's quite good.
I saw Steve Miller in 68/69 just after Boz left the band, his brother Geno was still playing bass I believe. So it was just a trio, Miller played a pretty long harp intro on Livin' In The USA, it was a good show, not spectacular. After the Sailor album and that show I lost interest in SM. A good friend of mine has done a lot of work on SM's boat, says he's a really nice guy.
speakin' of Boz Scaggs, I used to go see him wherever he played when he was doin' that tour w/horns - really funky stuff. His recording "Boz Scaggs and Band" captures that point in his career. Along w/funky, he did excellent slow blues with this particular unit.
Once he went mainstream, his music didn't excite me any longer. ---------- The Iceman
I saw that era Boz during the brief time Les Dudek was playing guitar with him, (San Diego State ampitheater?) Really one of the best shows I've seen, opening act, cecilio and kapono, but it was worth the sufferin'.
That Muscle Shoals/ Fame studios album "Boz Scaggs" is some powerful stuff too.
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