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Your Saving Grace is a much more earthy collection of tunes when compared to the band's previous three long-players. While there are distinct psychedelic remnants of the Boz Scaggs (guitar/vocals) and Jim Peterman (keyboards) era, the addition of keyboardists Ben Sidran and Nicky Hopkins -- which began on the Steve Miller Band's previous effort, Brave New World -- adds a jazzier facet to this second incarnation of the group. Harking back to the band's blues roots, Your Saving Grace includes a couple of distinct blues originals -- such as the up-tempo and gospel-doused "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" and a somewhat uninspired arrangement of "Motherless Children," which sounds more synchronous with the Sailor or Brave New World albums. The funky "Little Girl," the elegantly pensive "Baby's House," and the title track -- which is oddly programmed as the LP's final cut -- are among the highlights of this disc. Once again, the production is handled by Glyn Johns, whose contributions here are more subdued, yet no less noticeable. This is especially true of Miller's crystalline slide guitar licks on Lonnie Turner's cryptically titled "The Last Wombat in Mecca." The same upfront clean sound holds true on the laid-back and bluesy "Feel So Glad" -- which is punctuated by some inspired and unmistakable ivory tickling by studio wunderkind Nicky Hopkins. Although the album is not as thoroughly solid as earlier efforts, Your Saving Grace and the follow-up, Number 5, are definite bridges between the early trippy montages prevalent on Children of the Future and the direction that Miller would take on his much more successful mid-'70s discs.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
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STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ben Sidran, ComposerLyricist - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - GLYN JOHNS, Producer - Glyn Jones, Producer - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Davis, Drums, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Nicky Hopkins, Organ, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
STEVE MILLER, Arranger, Guitar, Vocals, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, Composer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer - Lonnie Turner, Composer
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Nicky Hopkins, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - STEVE MILLER, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Davis, Composer, Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Walsh, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Glyn Jones, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - James Cooke, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028. ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Your Saving Grace is a much more earthy collection of tunes when compared to the band's previous three long-players. While there are distinct psychedelic remnants of the Boz Scaggs (guitar/vocals) and Jim Peterman (keyboards) era, the addition of keyboardists Ben Sidran and Nicky Hopkins -- which began on the Steve Miller Band's previous effort, Brave New World -- adds a jazzier facet to this second incarnation of the group. Harking back to the band's blues roots, Your Saving Grace includes a couple of distinct blues originals -- such as the up-tempo and gospel-doused "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" and a somewhat uninspired arrangement of "Motherless Children," which sounds more synchronous with the Sailor or Brave New World albums. The funky "Little Girl," the elegantly pensive "Baby's House," and the title track -- which is oddly programmed as the LP's final cut -- are among the highlights of this disc. Once again, the production is handled by Glyn Johns, whose contributions here are more subdued, yet no less noticeable. This is especially true of Miller's crystalline slide guitar licks on Lonnie Turner's cryptically titled "The Last Wombat in Mecca." The same upfront clean sound holds true on the laid-back and bluesy "Feel So Glad" -- which is punctuated by some inspired and unmistakable ivory tickling by studio wunderkind Nicky Hopkins. Although the album is not as thoroughly solid as earlier efforts, Your Saving Grace and the follow-up, Number 5, are definite bridges between the early trippy montages prevalent on Children of the Future and the direction that Miller would take on his much more successful mid-'70s discs.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:24
- Main artists: Steve Miller Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1969 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2007 Capitol Records, LLC
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