Children of the Future | ||||
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Released | April 1968[1] | |||
Recorded | Early 1968 | |||
Studio | Olympic, London [2] | |||
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Length | 38:21 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Glyn Johns | |||
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Children of the Future is the debut studio album by the Steve Miller Band, released in 1968 by Capitol Records. Contributed by several writers, the songs on the album include a mixture of blues and psychedelic rock. The album was produced by British record producer- engineer Glyn Johns. It reached number 134 on the Billboard 200 album chart. [5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Rolling Stone | (positive) [6] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
Rolling Stone described the first side, which plays as a single continuous track (subtitled Children of the Future), as being "constructed like Sgt Pepper". [8] Writing in Crawdaddy!, Peter Knobler called the album "a triple moment of experience, knowledge, inspiration". [9] However, many of the songs had been written earlier when Miller was working as a janitor at a Texas music studio. [3]
Children of the Future is the first of two Steve Miller Band albums to feature guitarist/vocalist Boz Scaggs before he embarked on a successful solo career. [10]
All tracks are written by Steve Miller, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Children of the Future" | 2:58 | |
2. | "Pushed Me to It" | 0:36 | |
3. | "You've Got the Power" | 0:55 | |
4. | "In My First Mind" | Miller, Jim Peterman | 7:31 |
5. | "The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing (Psychedelic B.B.)" | 5:23 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Baby's Callin' Me Home" | Boz Scaggs | 3:24 |
7. | "Steppin' Stone" | Scaggs | 3:02 |
8. | "Roll with It" | 2:29 | |
9. | "Junior Saw It Happen" | Jim Pulte | 2:29 |
10. | " Fanny Mae" | Buster Brown | 3:11 |
11. | " Key to the Highway" | Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Segar | 6:18 |
The Steve Miller Band: [2]
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