Sailor (Steve Miller Band album)

Sailor is the second studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band, released in October 1968 by Capitol Records. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California, and was produced by the band along with Glyn Johns. It was the last album to feature contributions from original members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman.

The album has also been reissued in 1971 under the name Living in the U.S.A., and then again in 1982 under the original name Sailor. The album reached number 24 on the US Billboard 200 album chart and number 27 in Canada. It was voted number 353 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Rolling Stone	(positive)
Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Track listing

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Song for Our Ancestors"	Steve Miller	5:57
2.	"Dear Mary"	Miller	3:35
3.	"My Friend"	Tim Davis, Boz Scaggs	3:30
4.	"Living in the U.S.A."	Miller	4:03

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Quicksilver Girl"	Miller	2:40
2.	"Lucky Man"	Jim Peterman	3:08
3.	"Gangster of Love"	Johnny "Guitar" Watson	1:24
4.	"You're So Fine"	Jimmy Reed	2:51
5.	"Overdrive"	Scaggs	3:54
6.	"Dime-a-Dance Romance"	Scaggs	3:26

References

^ 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.
Evans, Paul; Scoppa, Bud (2004). "Steve Miller Band". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 542–543. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
"The Steve Miller Band Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
"Album chart". RPM. Retrieved June 3, 2012 – via Library and Archives Canada.
Colin Larkin, ed. (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
Hanson, Amy (2010). "Steve Miller Band: Sailor – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
Dorn, Mike (November 23, 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco, California.
Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
^ Sailor (Album notes). Steve Miller Band. Capitol Records. 1969. ST-2984.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

Sailor at Discogs (list of releases)

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Steve Miller Kenny Lee Lewis Gordy Knudtson Joseph Wooten Jacob Peterson Norton Buffalo Tim Davis Boz Scaggs Ben Sidran Nicky Hopkins Bobby Winkelman Charlie McCoy Ross Valory Jim Keltner Gary Mallaber David Denny Greg Douglass John Massaro Leo Sidran Sonny Charles
Studio albums	Children of the Future Sailor Brave New World Your Saving Grace Number 5 Rock Love Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden The Joker Fly Like an Eagle Book of Dreams Circle of Love Abracadabra Italian X Rays Living in the 20th Century Born 2 B Blue (Steve Miller solo album) Wide River Bingo! Let Your Hair Down
Live albums	Live at the Fillmore Auditorium Steve Miller Band Live!
Compilations	Anthology Greatest Hits 1974–78 Living in the U.S.A. The Very Best of the Steve Miller Band Young Hearts Ultimate Hits
Singles	"The Joker" "Take the Money and Run" "Rock'n Me" "Fly Like an Eagle" "Jet Airliner" "Jungle Love" "Swingtown" "Abracadabra" "I Want to Make the World Turn Around"
Songs	"Mercury Blues" "You Send Me" "Gangster of Love" "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"
Related articles	Discography

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