{"id":174968,"date":"2024-04-02T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174968"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:34:42","slug":"steve-miller-band-returns-to-ironstone-on-august-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174968","title":{"rendered":"Steve Miller Band Returns to Ironstone on August 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murphys, CA…Steve Miller Band has been announced to play Ironstone Amphitheatre in Murphys, CA as part of the Black Oak Casino Summer Concert Series on Saturday, August 31st<\/sup>. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 5 at 10am through Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n

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Steve Miller has been a monumental presence on the American music scene for more than half a century \u2013 and, in the course of that era, his releases have sold tens of millions of records and been streamed billions of times. Miller\u2019s\u00a0Greatest Hits 1974-78<\/i>\u00a0received the RIAA Diamond Award with sales of more than fifteen million copies. It is among the 25 best-selling albums of all time.<\/p>\n

At the start of his career, Miller was a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene that upended\u00a0American culture in the late \u201960s. With albums like\u00a0Children of the Future<\/i>,\u00a0Sailor\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Brave New World<\/i>, Miller perfected a psychedelic blues sound that drew on\u00a0the deepest sources of American roots music and simultaneously articulated a\u00a0compelling vision of what music \u2013 and, indeed, society \u2013 could be in the years to\u00a0come.<\/p>\n

Then, beginning in the \u201870s, Miller crafted a brand of pure pop that was smart, polished,\u00a0exciting and irresistible \u2013 and that dominated radio in a way that few artists have\u00a0ever managed. Hit followed hit in what seemed like an endless flow: \u201cThe Joker,\u201d \u201cTake the\u00a0Money and Run,\u201d \u201cRock\u2019n\u00a0Me,\u201d \u201cFly Like an Eagle,\u201d \u201cJet Airliner,\u201d \u201cJungle\u00a0Love,\u201d \u201cSwingtown\u201d and \u201cAbracadabra,\u201d among them. To this day, those songs are instantly recognizable the moment you hear them \u2013 and impossible not to sing along with. Their hooks are the\u00a0very definition of indelible.<\/p>\n

Running through Miller\u2019s distinctive catalog is a\u00a0combination of virtuosity and song craft. And that\u2019s no accident. His parents were jazz aficionados \u2013 not\u00a0to mention close friends of Les Paul and Mary Ford \u2013 so, as a budding guitarist,\u00a0Miller absorbed valuable lessons from that musical tradition. When the family\u00a0moved to Texas, Miller deepened his education in the blues, eventually relocating to\u00a0Chicago, where he played with Muddy Waters,\u00a0Howlin\u2019 Wolf, James Cotton and\u00a0Paul Butterfield. That range of sources informs his music to this day.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Miller has fully immersed himself in the blues and its many byways.\u00a0As he has always done, he continues to find creative outlets for the full panoply of his musical passions. On his successful tours with the Steve Miller Band, he complements the commercial peaks of his extensive catalogue with lesser-known songs that expand his fans\u2019 awareness of the range of his work.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Board of Directors at Jazz at Lincoln Center and at the request of Wynton Marsalis, he is defining a blues pedagogy for Jazz at Lincoln Center and has curated and headlined a series of shows that explore themes like the bridge from blues to jazz in the music of guitar great T-Bone Walker; the distinctive sounds of the blues triangle of Memphis, Texas and Chicago; the resonances between the singular musical creations of Ma Rainey and Miles Davis; the deep American roots music of Appalachia; Cannonball Adderley and the Blues; Steve Miller on Steve Miller which explored his own influences and the music they inspired and most recently the Future of the Blues.<\/p>\n

He is also a member of the visiting committee of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Indeed, five of his guitars were displayed in \u201cPlay It Loud: The Instruments of Rock and Roll,\u201d a groundbreaking exhibition at the Met that ran for six months in 2019. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022.<\/p>\n

He has recently begun to open his vaults for the first time, releasing the acclaimed\u00a0Welcome to the Vault\u00a0<\/i>box set in 2019\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Breaking Ground Live! August 3, 1977\u00a0<\/i>in 2021. 2023 marked the 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the release of the\u00a0chart-topping, RIAA Platinum-certified studio album\u00a0The Joker<\/i>. To celebrate this important moment in his career, Steve Miller released\u00a0a groundbreaking new box set chronicling the extraordinary artistic journey that led to its creation:\u00a0J50: The Evolution of The Joker<\/i>.<\/p>\n

With each listen the beauty and immediacy of Miller\u2019s work, whether at its most playful or most serious, is palpable. As always, whether he was riding the top of the charts or traveling\u00a0the endless blue highways of American music, you can hear him playing and singing with conviction\u00a0and precision, passion and eloquence, making music that is at once\u00a0immediately accessible, thrillingly alive in the present, respectful of the past, and more than able to stand the test of time.<\/p>\n

Get your tickets to see Steve Miller Band Live at Ironstone Amphitheatre on August 31<\/b>st<\/b><\/sup> this Friday, April 5<\/b>th<\/b><\/sup> at 10am through Ticketmaster.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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