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    Wide River

    Riffing guitars, a rhythm section locked into a groove, upfront vocals leavened with laid-back humor – in the late '70s, the Steve Miller sound ruled radio. "Jet Airliner," "Rock'n Me" and "Take the Money and Run" were sly hits, instantly appealing and almost maddeningly indelible, but "Abracad...

    1993 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Biography

"Take the Money and Run," the winking title of one of Steve Miller's '70s megahits, seems to sum up the blithely commercial drive of this genial radio artiste, but his early work was trailblazing -- and even his trifles sound great in the car. Forming his first professional outfit in San Francisco in 1966, the Wisconsin-born guitarist/singer deftly sidestepped the flashier excesses of shopworn psy...

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