Sold Date: November 22, 2015
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Original 1968 CAPITOL RECORDS pressing of STEVE MILLER BAND album, CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE (SKAO 2920 STEREO)
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AMG 4 1/2 STARS: A psychedelic blues rock-out, 1968's marked 's earliest attempt at the ascent that brought him supersonic superstardom. Recorded at Olympic Studios in London with storied producer at the helm, the set played out as pure West Coast rock inflected with decade-of-love psychedelia but intriguingly cloaked in the misty pathos of the U.K. blues ethic. Though bandmate contributed a few songs, the bulk of the material was written by while working as a janitor at a music studio in Texas earlier in the year. The best of his efforts resonate in a side one free-for-all that launches with the keys and swirls of the title track and segues smoothly through "Pushed Me Through It" and "In My First Mind," bound for the epic, hazy, lazy, organ-inflected "The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing," which ebbs and flows in ways that are continually surprising. The second half of the LP is cast in a different light -- a clutch of songs that groove together but don't have the same sleepy flow. Though it has since attained classic status -- himself was still performing it eight years later -- ' "Baby's Callin' Me Home" is a sparse, lightly instrumentalized piece of good old '60s San Francisco pop. His "Steppin' Stone," on the other hand, is a raucous, heavy-handed blues freakout with a low-riding bass and guitar breaks that angle out in all directions. And whether the title capitalized at all on ' similarly titled song, released a year earlier, is anybody's guess. was a brilliant debut. And while it is certainly a product of its era, it's still a vibrant reminder of just how the blues co-opted the mainstream to magnificent success.

Condition: the gatefold sleeve grades VG+, with some minor damage to the bottom right corner of the back- see photo. No writing or tape. The record grades NEAR MINT. Original inner sleeve included, the record ships in an anti-static, dust free, archival sleeve. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.