Your Saving Grace

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Your Saving Grace
Your Saving Grace (Steve Miller Band album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1969 (1969-11)
Recorded1969
Studio Wally Heider, San Francisco, California
Genre
Length37:31
Label Capitol
Producer Glyn Johns
Steve Miller Band chronology
Brave New World
(1969)
Your Saving Grace
(1969)
Number 5
(1970)

Your Saving Grace is the fourth album by American rock group the Steve Miller Band, released in November 1969. It reached number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. [1]

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Rolling Stone (favorable) [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Track listing

Side One [5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Little Girl" Steve Miller 3:20
2."Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream"Miller, Ben Sidran 3:38
3."Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around"Miller2:27
4."Baby's House"Miller, Nicky Hopkins 8:55
Side Two [5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Motherless Children"traditional; arr. Miller5:52
6."The Last Wombat in Mecca"Lonnie Turner2:53
7."Feel So Glad"Miller5:22
8."Your Saving Grace" Tim Davis 4:55

Personnel

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References

  1. "The Steve Miller Band Chart History Billboard 200". Billboard.com . Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  2. Your Saving Grace at AllMusic
  3. Leimbacher, Ed (27 December 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone . No. 49. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. pp. 58–60. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  5. 1 2 Your Saving Grace (Album notes). Steve Miller Band. Capitol Records. 1969. SKAO-331.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. https://www.discogs.com/release/1255777-The-Steve-Miller-Band-Your-Saving-Grace/image/SW1hZ2U6MjQ5NTA5MDI=