It would've been news if Steve Miller hadn't grown up to be a musician. Les Paul (a

Wisconsin friend of Miller's physician father) taught him his first chords, and Miller

gleaned his bluesy, melodic sense from T-Bone Walker, a frequent guest at the family's

back-yard parties. That innate musicality permeates Miller's satisfying box set

(generously kicked off with early home recordings of those two childhood heroes), placing

a warm artistic sensibility ahead of slavish devotion to historical chronology. The

result is one of the most listenable, user-friendly multidisc compilations around. Fans

will find samples of Miller's first San Francisco-based successes of the '60s, through

his string of ubiquitous '70s hit singles (refreshingly sequenced on disc 2 to emphasize

the inherent genius of the perfect three-minute pop song) to later work rife with jazz

and the subtle shadings of maturity. Miller is one of rock's most consistent (albeit

persistently underrated) writers and performers. This collection proves that those who

know him only from "Jungle Love" and "Abracadabra" don't know Steve Miller at all.

--Jerry McCulley

Label: Capitol Records ‎– C2 0777 7 89826 2 3

Format: 3 × CD, Compilation Box Set

Country: US(WITH CANADA DISTRIBUTION STICKER)

Released:1994

Genre: Rock, Blues

Style: Classic Rock

FACTORY SEALED

TRACKLIST:

1-1 Child's Medley

1-2 Les Paul And Steve (Age 5)

1-3 T-Bone Walker (Steve's House 1952)

1-4 Candy Cain (1958)

1-5 Met A Little Girl On Her Way To School

1-6 Children Of The Future (The Beauty Of Time...)

1-7 Livin' In The USA

1-8 Space Cowboy

1-9 Going To Mexico

1-10 My Dark Hour

1-11 Steppin' Stone

1-12 Fanny Mae

1-13 Going To The Country

1-14 Little Girl

1-15 Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma

1-16 Jackson-Kent Blues

1-17 Your Saving Grace

1-18 Kow Kow Calqulator

1-19 Seasons

1-20 Baby's House

1-21 Journey From Eden

1-22 Baby's Callin' Me Home

1-23 L.T.'s Midnight Dream

1-24 Quicksilver Girl

1-25 Song For Our Ancestors

2-1 Harmony Of The Spheres

2-2 Space Intro

2-3 Fly Like An Eagle

2-4 Wild Mountain Honey

2-5 Serenade

2-6 Dance, Dance, Dance

2-7 Take The Money And Run

2-8 Rockin' Me

2-9 Jungle Love

2-10 Swingtown

2-11 Treshold

2-12 Jet Airliner

2-13 The Joker

2-14 Who Do You Love

2-15 Abracadabra

2-16 Give It Up

2-17 The Stake

2-18 Out Of The Night

2-19 One In A Million

2-20 True Fine Love

2-21 Winter Time

2-22 Rock It

3-1 Come On In My Kitchen

3-2 Evil

3-3 Mercury Blues

3-4 The Lovin' Cup

3-5 Behind The Barn

3-6 I Want To Make The World Turn Around

3-7 Sacrifice

3-8 Slinky

3-9 Nobody But You

3-10 I Wanne Be Loved

3-11 Caress Me Baby

3-12 Sweet Maree

3-13 Born To Be Blue

3-14 God Bless The Child

3-15 When Sunny Gets Blue

3-16 C.C. Rider / All Blues

3-17 Maelstrom