Cleopatra Records loves doing these tribute albums, typically with Billy Sherwood in charge. That works out well because I love these albums and love reviewing them. I’ve always dug the music of Steve Miller and therefore I looked forward to this one. I’d say that overall it’s one of the less proggy of the bunch, but there are enough bits of prog and enough progressive rock people involved here to land it in that category. Of course, Billy Sherwood is one steady feature here. He’s on all the songs except the last one. My individual track reviews will include the featured artists for the various cuts, but overall, there are a lot of great guys here. This isn’t the best of these they’ve done, but it’s still pretty great. It should be mentioned that Peter Banks contributed to one of the songs here. He passed away between recording it and the album coming out, so in some ways this could be looked at as a tribute to him, too.

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There’s a cool vibe to this tune. It’s got the Steve Miller song structure pretty much intact, but there is a real fusion, funky kind of feeling in the arrangement. I can almost make out some hints of Southern rock, too. Featured musicians include Colin Moulding and Tony Kaye.