Number 5 - STEVE MILLER BAND****

Good Morning/I Love You/Going To The Country/Hot Chilli/Tokin's/Going To Mexico/Steve Miller's Midnight Tango/Industrial Military Complex Hex/Jackson Kent Blues/Never Kill Another Man

The uninspired title Number 5 provides the album arithmetic for this offering from the blues rock Steve Miller Band. It includes some more overtly political songs than hitherto. (US:23)

"All of the songs are masterpieces and full of commentary about the times. Perhaps on this album, Miller makes his boldest political statements to date, especially on the songs Jackson Kent Blues and Industrial Military Complex Hex. Both tracks are lyrically powerful and are Miller's take on the shooting of students by national guardsmen and the connection between the industry of war and the economy. Miller lets it open up a couple of times with fresh and upbeat perspectives on tracks like Goin' To The Country, Good Morning and Tokin's. As a whole, the album is solid."

"You are missing a real gem if you haven't heard this one. It is one of those few albums where you just look at the song titles and the music begins to play in your head. Take a musical trip back, smile and remember the times and the world in 1970."

"Probably one of the best albums by an American blues rock band. Not as commercial as his future albums but, in my opinion, better than any of them. People that own this album know what I'm talking about. There is an almost magical quality to this that is impossible to express in words."

"There are two 'Goin' To' songs on this record, Going To The Country and Going To Mexico and they both deliver in the style that can only be attributed to Steve Miller. While Kent State Blues is only two minutes long, its a song that will be remembered for all time. Goin' To The Country foreshadows the coming of a lighter blues oriented Steve Miller, and the times were changing as well, so it's a wonderful anthem to the new world yet to be conquered."

"This is one of the band's best. Tunes like Going To Mexico are still effective and comforting. When the occasional AOR station plays this cut, it generates renewed interest. Jackson Kent Blues was the big requested song at Steve Miller concerts. It's a psychedelic effort that has some neat riffs and is unlike Steve Miller's other stuff."