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Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle Label: Capitol Records SW-11497 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Record VG++ Mint ( Like New) cover Mint in shrink Country: Canada Released: 1976 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock Tracklist A1 Space Intro 1:15 A2 Fly Like An Eagle 4:42 A3 Wild Mountain Honey 4:50 A4 Serenade 3:10 A5 Mercury Blues 3:43 B1 Take The Money And Run 2:48 B2 Rock 'N Me 3:05 B3 You Send Me 2:40 B4 Blue Odyssey 1:00 B5 Sweet Maree 4:16 B6 The Window We begin the album with winds ala echo-plex and the synthesizer laced "Space Intro" which was a great intro. Then the echo-plexed winds segue into the album's title cut "Fly Like An Eagle" which was a Top 5 hit in early 1977. The song developed from when it was called "In the Ghetto" in the early 1970s. The song has a great riff, great vocals and superb synthesizer effects which go throughout the track and the synthesizer echoed ending was superb and the beeps at the end were from the master tape. Next is "Wild Mountain Honey" which is a nice relaxing number which doesn't change key during the song but doesn't bore one. Next is the rocker "Serenade" which is a great rocker and had Steve singing all of the harmonies and just rocks. Next is a rockified version of "Mercury Blues" which is a great rocking version of the blues standard about the car and Steve made the track his own. The album's second half starts with the rocking first single "Take The Money And Run" which was a Top 10 hit in the Summer of 1976. The song was a story of a man and woman trying to rob some cash and the song was chosen as a single after kids at an elementary school liked what they heard. The #1 hit "Rock 'n Me" follows and is a great rocker Next is the remake of the late Sam Cooke's ballad "You Send Me". This remake is superb with excellent electric guitar playing and harmonies all from Steve. The second of two instrumentals "Blue Odyssey" is next and is called a poor man's Space Intro but with great synthesizer work and the synthesizer used was ironically an ARP Odyssey synthesizer, hence the name. Then the echoplexed induced wind segues into the bluesy "Sweet Maree" which featured the legendary James Cotton on harmonica and staccato acoustic guitar with limited lyrics from Miller and is a showcase for Cotton's harmonica and Miller's bluesy electric guitar soloing. The album ends with the spacey ballad "The Window" which has a great synthesizer riff, excellent vocals and ends like the album began with a collage of echoplexed synthesizer and wind effects. Fly Like an Eagle went all the way to #3 on the Billboard chart and sold 4.5 million copies, went Platinum right when released. Steve Miller Band - Take The Money and Run - Fan Video Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (1976) Sweet tune w/ a message. Steve Miller Band - Rock'N Me guitar hero
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