MURPHYS - The Steve Miller Band is playing the Ironstone Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 31, at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased on line at http://www.ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, please, call (800) 745-3000.  Tickets are also available at all Ticketmaster Outlets.  Lawn tickets are available at Black Oak Casino.  On the day of the show tickets to that show will be available on site at the Ironstone box office.

The Steve Miller Band was formed in 1967 in San Francisco  and is known for a string of mainly mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of the classic rock radio format.

In May 1968 while in England, they recorded their debut album Children Of The Future. The album did not have any successes and did not score among the Top 100 album chart, but standout tracks were the acoustic tune “Baby’s Calling Me Home” and funky blues number “Steppin’ Stone”. Closing the album is a slow version of the blues standard “Key To The Highway”.

The Steve Miller Band’s second album Sailor appeared in October, and climbed the Billboard chart to No. 24. Successes included the singles “Livin’ In The USA”, “Lucky Man”, and Boz Scaggs “Overdrive” and “Dime-A-Dance Romance”.

Miller’s audience expanded with each album: Brave New World (#22, 1969), which featured the successful song “Space Cowboy”.

The Joker album in 1973 showed audiences a new style of the band. The title track became a #1 single and was certified platinum for reaching over one million sales.

Three years later, the Steve Miller Band returned with the album Fly Like An Eagle, which charted at No. 3. Three singles were released from the album: “Take The Money and Run” (No. 11), “Fly Like an Eagle” (No. 2) and their second Number One success, “Rock ‘N Me”. Miller credits the guitar intro to “Rock ‘N Me” as a tribute to the classic song by Free, “All Right Now”.

Book Of Dreams  album in 1077 also included three successes: “Jet Airliner” (No. 8), “Jungle Love” ( No. 23), which later becoming the song played over the opening credits of the 8th season of Everybody Loves Raymond, and “Swingtown” (No. 17). 1982’s Abracadabra album gave Steve Miller his third Number One success with the title track.