Sailor (album)

For the Sailor album, see Sailor (Sailor album).

Sailor is the second studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band, released in October 1968 by Capitol Records. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California,^[1] and was produced by the band along with Glyn Johns. It was the last album to feature contributions from original members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman.

Sailor
Studio album by Steve Miller Band
Released	October 1968 (1968-10)[1]
Recorded	Los Angeles, California, 1968
Genre	Rock[2]
Length	34:22
Label	Capitol
Producer	Steve Miller Band, Glyn Johns[1]
Steve Miller Band chronology
Children of the Future (1968) Sailor (1968) Brave New World (1969)

The album has also been reissued in 1971 under the name Living in the U.S.A., and then again in 1982 under the original name Sailor. The album reached number 24 on the US Billboard 200 album chart^[3] and number 27 in Canada.^[4] It was voted number 353 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).^[5]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
Rolling Stone	(positive)[7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]

Track listing

Side One^[9]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Song for Our Ancestors"	Steve Miller	5:57
2.	"Dear Mary"	Miller	3:35
3.	"My Friend"	Tim Davis, Boz Scaggs	3:30
4.	"Living in the U.S.A."	Miller	4:03

Side Two^[9]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Quicksilver Girl"	Miller	2:40
2.	"Lucky Man"	Jim Peterman	3:08
3.	"Gangster of Love"	Johnny "Guitar" Watson	1:24
4.	"You're So Fine"	Jimmy Reed	2:51
5.	"Overdrive"	Scaggs	3:54
6.	"Dime-a-Dance Romance"	Scaggs	3:26

References

1. Brown, Ashley (1990). "Space Cowboy". The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music. Vol. 11 (Reference ed.). Marshall Cavendish. p. 1225. ISBN 1-85435-026-9.
2. Evans, Paul; Scoppa, Bud (2004). "Steve Miller Band". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 542–543. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
3. "The Steve Miller Band Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
4. "Album chart". RPM. Retrieved June 3, 2012 – via Library and Archives Canada.
5. Colin Larkin, ed. (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
6. Hanson, Amy (2010). "Steve Miller Band: Sailor – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
7. Dorn, Mike (November 23, 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco, California.
8. Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
9. Sailor (Album notes). Steve Miller Band. Capitol Records. 1969. ST-2984.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

• Sailor at Discogs (list of releases)