STEVE MILLER BAND LIVE! BREAKING GROUND: AUGUST 3, 1977 ARRIVES ON FRIDAY, MAY 14

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY, AND ON CD AND 2LP BLACK VINYL FORMATS

 

FULL CONCERT FILM WILL STREAM VIA THE CODA COLLECTION ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO BEGINNING MAY 14

 

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED HISTORIC CONCERT RECORDING FROM THE STEVE MILLER BAND TOUR IN SUPPORT OF ALBUMS FLY LIKE AN EAGLE AND BOOK OF DREAMS

 

LISTEN TO “JET AIRLINER (LIVE),” PREMIERING TODAY

 

WATCH BREAKING GROUND TRAILER

 

PRE-ORDER STEVE MILLER BAND LIVE! BREAKING GROUND: AUGUST 3, 1977

 

 

 

26 MARCH 2021 (TORONTO, ON) - Guitarist, multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter, bandleader, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Songwriters Hall of Fame electee Steve Miller has dug deep into his archives and found an unreleased, full-length concert recording, Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, arriving via Sailor/Capitol/UMe on Friday, May 14. A variety of formats will be available, including digital, CD, and 2xLP black vinyl. The accompanying live concert film featuring the full performance will be available to stream on The Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video.

 

Says Miller: “This show from August of 1977 at the Cap Center in Landover, Maryland, captures the band right at the peak after The Joker, and in the middle of Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams, a stream of hits…We decided to call it Breaking Ground because that's exactly what we were doing.”

 

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 –includes original liner notes by music journalist David Fricke who says – “Breaking Ground captures the Steve Miller Band on stage in one of their biggest years, 1977. They were at a perfect crossroads of psychedelic zeal and progressive, popcraft while staying true to Miller's first love, the blues.”

 

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 captures Miller’s legendary 1977 lineup at the beginning of the band’s turn from playing ballrooms and theatres to arenas and football stadiums. Recorded at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD on multi-track tape and newly mixed and mastered by Miller and his veteran audio engineer Kent Hertz.

 

The Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 74-78 album is in the top 40 of the best-selling albums of all time according to the RIAA. Recent releases for SMB include the 9LP 180-gram vinyl box set, Complete Albums Volume 2 (1977-2011), as well as the 3CD + DVD archival box set, Welcome To The Vault, both available via uDiscover.

 

STEVE MILLER BAND

LIVE! BREAKING GROUND: AUGUST 3, 1977

Release Date: Friday, May 14

 

 

Steve Miller Band Members:

• Steve Miller – Guitar, Harmonica and Lead Vocals
• Norton Buffalo - Harmonica and Background Vocals
• Lonnie Turner – Bass
• Gary Mallaber – Drums
• David Denny - Guitar and Background Vocals
• Greg Douglass – Guitar
• Byron Allred - Keyboards

 

Track List:

1. Living In The U.S.A.
2. Space Cowboy
3. Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
4. Come On In My Kitchen
5. Wild Mountain Honey
6. The Window/Winter Time
7. The Stake
8. Mercury Blues
9. Serenade
10. Take The Money And Run
11. Jet Airliner
12. Space Intro
13. Fly Like An Eagle
14. Rock’n Me
15. The Joker
16. Seasons
17. So Long Blues

 

Photo credit: Courtesy of Steve Miller Archive 

 

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