Song For Our Ancestors/Dear Mary/My Friend/Living In The USA/Quicksilver Girl/Lucky Man/Gangster Of Love/ You’re So Fine/Overdrive/Dime A Dance Romance
Sailor was the second Steve Miller Band album and the last to feature Boz Scaggs, reaching a significantly higher chart placing than its predecessor earlier in the year. (US:24)
"This and Children Of The Future are both brilliant albums that are chronically overlooked and undervalued. They both have everything that makes for a great rock/pop album: good material, crack musicianship, variety and good vocals. And, though I'm not a guitar freak, Steve Miller is a very, very good guitarist - both rhythm and lead. They could play rings around the other bands of the day."
"You can really feel 1968 on this album, almost a decade before Steve Miller would become a radio hit maker. It's a nice pastiche of blues, psychedelia, and the straightahead rock 'n' roll he'd become famous for. Although it has an undeniable late-60s vibe, it holds up real well years later. It bears noting that buddy Boz Scaggs went overboard after this album."
"From 1968 this was the second Steve Miller Band album and the last to feature Boz Scaggs before he attained super stardom. It's a mixed bag - of its time perhaps - but the good tracks - are still great, and it is a lot more 'poppy' than you might think. Only a shade behind Children Of The Future, this album has fine flow and atmosphere. The work of a master artisan of psychedelia."
"An opening fog horn signals the beginning of Song For Our Ancestors. At this point even the casual listener is alerted to the oncoming music that gradually builds into an incredible soundscape that is drenched with organ, piano and guitar reverb."
"While Sailor contains a couple of classic tunes, most notably the great Living In The USA and the coolly psychedelic Quicksilver Girl, I found it for the most part to be pretty boring and predictable. Outside of those two songs, there's just nothing that sounds like much more than a half-hearted effort, save for the pretty good Gangster Of Love."
"The music is all good, it sounds like a long trip to Cali on AM radio during the 60s, and at other times it sounds a cool psychedelic trip."
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