Artist: Steve Miller Band
Album: Fly Like An Eagle
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 1976/2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 38:12
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 763 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Steve Miller Band – Space Intro (01:16)
1-02. Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle (04:42)
1-03. Steve Miller Band – Wild Mountain Honey (04:49)
1-04. Steve Miller Band – Serenade (03:11)
1-05. Steve Miller Band – Dance, Dance, Dance (02:17)
1-06. Steve Miller Band – Mercury Blues (03:42)
1-07. Steve Miller Band – Take The Money And Run (02:49)
1-08. Steve Miller Band – Rock’n Me (03:07)
1-09. Steve Miller Band – You Send Me (02:42)
1-10. Steve Miller Band – Blue Odyssey (00:49)
1-11. Steve Miller Band – Sweet Maree (04:21)
1-12. Steve Miller Band – The Window (04:20)

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It took the Steve Miller Band eight years and nine albums before they finally hit the big time. They got a taste of it in 1973 when the title track to The Joker reached No. 1. But Fly Like an Eagle, which was released in April 1976, took Miller and his group to a whole new level.

Miller forsook his love of the blues for this and its sister project Book Of Dreams. In turning to mainstream pop/rock he became a huge star and developed the knack of delivering high-quality three-minute songs that were perfect for FM radio.

The album is linked by Miller’s fascination with electronic sounds, sandwiched between the irresistible title track, the Bonnie and Clyde tale of ‘Take The Money And Run’, the irritatingly simple ‘Rock ‘n’ Me’ and the subdued ‘The Window’, with its quirky lyric ‘ask my baby what she wants to be, she says a monkey in a tree’. His baby replies ‘there’s nothing greater than love’, true enough. After all, it was Miller who rhymed ‘northern California’ with ‘girls are warm yeah’.”Steve Miller had started to essay his classic sound with The Joker, but 1976’s Fly Like an Eagle is where he took flight, creating his definitive slice of space blues. The key is focus, even on an album as stylishly, self-consciously trippy as this, since the focus brings about his strongest set of songs (both originals and covers), plus a detailed atmospheric production where everything fits. It still can sound fairly dated – those whooshing keyboards and cavernous echoes are certainly of their time – but its essence hasn’t aged, as “Fly Like an Eagle” drifts like a cool breeze, while “Take the Money and Run” and “Rock ‘n Me” are fiendishly hooky, friendly rockers. The rest of the album may not be quite up to those standards, but there aren’t any duds, either, as “Wild Mountain Honey” and “Mercury Blues” give this a comfortable backdrop, thanks to Miller’s offhand, lazy charm. Though it may not quite transcend its time, it certainly is an album rock landmark of the mid-’70s and its best moments (namely, the aforementioned singles) are classics of the idiom.” (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)