Steve Miller Band – Living In The U.S.A. (1973)
Steve Miller Band – Living In The U.S.A. (1973)
1 Living In The U.S.A. 2 Space Cowboy 3 Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around 4 The Joker 5 Gangster Of Love 6 Lovin' Cup 7 Quicksilver Girl 8 Your Saving Grace 9 Motherless Children 10 Mary Lou Steve Miller - guitar, harmonica, keyboards, synthesizer Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals on tracks 1, 5 & 7 Glyn Johns – guitar, percussion, vocals on track 2 Lonnie Turner – bass guitar, vocals on tracks 1–3, 5, 7–9 Gerald Johnson – bass guitar, vocals on tracks 4, 6 & 10 Jim Peterman – keyboards, vocals on tracks 1, 5 & 7 Ben Sidran – keyboards on tracks 2, 3, 8 & 9 Dick Thompson – keyboards on tracks 4, 6 & 10 Tim Davis – drums, vocals on tracks 1–3, 5, 7–9 John King – drums on tracks 4, 6 & 10
Living in the USA is not an official Steve Miller Band album -- it's a compilation assembled by CEMA Special Markets that draws highlights from his earliest albums. There are a couple of hits here -- namely, "Living in the USA" and "The Joker" -- plus a handful of album rock favorites like "Gangster of Love," but there is also a bit of filler on the album. Consequently, it's not as entertaining or valuable as the classic The Best of the Steve Miller Band, nor should it be seen as a cheap substitute for that collection. Instead, Living in the USA is an uneven sampler of an uneven era, and it offers almost as many misses as hits. For a budget-priced collection, that's actually a pretty good ratio, but casual fans should stick with the well-known hits collection, not this sampler. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review
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