Steve Miller Band - 1982 - Abracadabra (2019 HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Steve Miller Band
Title: Abracadabra (2019 HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 10 x files FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: Steve Miller, Gary Mallaber
Release Date: June 15, 1982 (2019 HDtracks)
Recorded: 1981 at Capitol Recording Studios, Studio B, Hollywood, California
Label: Capitol Records/Steve Miller - Owned
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Duration: 37:30
Steve Miller Band:
Wikipedia:
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group is best known for a string of (mainly) mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band’s contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love and more. The band's Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. In 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Abracadabra:
Wikipedia:
Abracadabra is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band. The album was released on June 15, 1982, by Capitol Records.
Abracadabra charted in nine countries, including Germany where the record reached #1 for a week. Four singles were released from the album: the title track, "Cool Magic", "Keeps Me Wondering Why", and "Give It Up", with the title song charting the highest.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Steve Miller was always catchy and tuneful, but he never turned out an unabashed pop album until 1982's Abracadabra. This isn't just pop in construction, it's pop in attitude, filled with effervescent melodies and deeply silly lyrics, perhaps none more noteworthy than the immortal couplet "Abra-Abracadabra/I wanna reach out and grab ya." Those words graced the title track, which turned out to be one of his biggest hits, and if nothing else is quite as irresistibly goofy as that song, there still is a surplus of engagingly tuneful material, all dressed up in the psuedo-new wave production so favored by AOR veterans in the early '80s. All of that may not make this one of Miller's definitive albums, especially in the view of hardcore space blues heads, but it's pretty damn irresistible for listeners who find "Abracadabra" one of the highlights of faux-new wave AOR.
Tracklist:
01. Keeps Me Wondering Why - 3:43
02. Abracadabra - 5:08
03. Something Special - 3:35
04. Give It Up - 3:38
05. Never Say No - 3:37
06. Things I Told You - 3:15
07. Young Girl’s Heart - 3:33
08. Goodbye Love - 2:53
09. Cool Magic - 4:23
10. While I’m Waiting - 3:26
Personnel:
Steve Miller – vocals, guitar, Synclavier, synthesizers on track 2, Roland Jupiter-8 on track 2 and Roland Juno-60 on track 2
John Massaro – guitar
Kenny Lee Lewis – guitar
Norton Buffalo – harmonica
Byron Allred – keyboards
Gerald Johnson – bass guitar
Gary Mallaber – drums, percussion, keyboards
Additional Personnel:
Greg Douglass – guitar on tracks 3 & 8
Lonnie Turner – bass guitar on tracks 3 & 8
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