| Children of the Future | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Steve Miller Band |
| Cover: | COTF.jpg |
| Released: | [1] |
| Recorded: | Early 1968 |
| Studio: | Olympic, London[2] |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 38:21 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Glyn Johns |
| Next Title: | Sailor |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
Children of the Future is the debut studio album by the Steve Miller Band, released in April 1968 by Capitol Records. Contributed by several writers, the songs on the album include a mixture of blues and psychedelic rock. The album was produced by British record producer-engineer Glyn Johns. It reached number 134 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[4]
Rolling Stone described the first side, which plays as a single continuous track (subtitled Children of the Future), as being "constructed like Sgt Pepper".[5] Writing in Crawdaddy!, Peter Knobler called the album "a triple moment of experience, knowledge, inspiration".[6] However, many of the songs had been written earlier when Miller was working as a janitor at a Texas music studio.
Children of the Future is the first of two Steve Miller Band albums to feature guitarist/vocalist Boz Scaggs before he embarked on a successful solo career.[7]
The Steve Miller Band:[2]