Your Saving Grace – THE STEVE MILLER BAND***

Little Girl/Just A Passing Fancy In A Midnight Dream/Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around/Baby’s House/ Motherless Children/The Last Wombat In Mecca/Feel So Glad/Your Saving Grace

Steve Miller’s fourth album, Your Saving Grace, suffers from too many LPs released in too short a period of time, and is considered the weakest of his blues rock early releases. (US:38)

“One of the weaker 60s Steve Miller Band LPs. The 'saving grace' here is Baby's House a great extended track. The title track isn’t too bad either with a nice psychedelic break midway through.”

“Of his albums to date, I feel this is clearly the weakest. It's mostly soft, slow, folk influenced acoustic sub-par material. Not his shining moment. Though still credited to The Steve Miller Band, apparently, most of said band has been jettisoned at this point.”

“As my preference almost always is toward the less commercial musical output from artists and bands, it follows that this era of The Steve Miller band is my preferred and Your Saving Grace is perhaps my favourite album of that era.”

“A bluesy album with a lot of fine musicians lending a hand. Little Girl and Your Saving Grace are the only strong songs on the album, but they're worth the wait.”

“If I wanted to perpetuate my argument that Steve Miller’s early work was his best, using Your Saving Grace would not be my strongest weapon. Even though Nicky Hopkins graces several tracks with his exquisite piano and harpsichord, only about half the album benefits. The first three tracks are small teases but when Baby's House the first side closer begins the listener finally starts to hear the prime time Steve Miller. The second side is better as it contains good songs like Motherless Children, Feel So Glad and Your Saving Grace. Its late sixties psychedelic San Francisco type music, and in my opinion still better than the mid seventies pop music Steve would make money on later.”

"Steve Miller is probably the world's most underrated guitarist. He is also very underrated as an artist. Your Saving Grace is no exception. Baby's House shows off the piano skills of Nicky Hopkins as well as Miller's strength as a vocalist.”