Children of the Future
Studio album by
Steve Miller Band
ReleasedApril 1968 (1968-04)[1]
RecordedEarly 1968
StudioOlympic, London[2]
GenrePsychedelic rock,[3][4] blues rock[3]
Length38:21
LabelCapitol
ProducerGlyn Johns
Steve Miller Band chronology
Children of the Future
(1968) 		Sailor
(1968)

Children of the Future is the debut 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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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]

Overview

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]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Steve Miller, except where noted

Side one[11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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 Peterman7:31
5."The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing (Psychedelic B.B.)" 5:23
Side two[11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Baby's Callin' Me Home"Boz Scaggs3:24
7."Steppin' Stone"Scaggs3:02
8."Roll with It" 2:29
9."Junior Saw It Happen"Jim Pulte2:29
10."Fanny Mae"Buster Brown3:11
11."Key to the Highway"Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Segar6:18

Personnel

The Steve Miller Band:[2]

References

  1. ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 548.
  2. ^ a b Brown, Ashley (1990). "Space Cowboy". The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music. Vol. 11 (Reference ed.). Marshall Cavendish. p. 1225. ISBN 1-85435-026-9.
  3. ^ a b c d "Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band: Children of the Future – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  4. ^ Kreps, Daniel (May 22, 2014). "20 Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the Sixties That You've Never Heard – Steve Miller Band: Children of the Future". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  5. ^ "The Steve Miller Band Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  6. ^ Wenner, Jann (June 22, 1968). "Children of the Future – Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2013-08-31. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  8. ^ "Steve Miller Band: Children of the Future Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 26, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  9. ^ "Crawdaddy! 1968". Crawdaddy.com. Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  10. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1964-5. ISBN 978-1-85227-745-1.
  11. ^ a b Children of the Future (Album notes). Steve Miller Band. Capitol Records. 1968. SKAO-2920.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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