Ten Favorite Steve Miller Band Songs: Your Saving Grace (#5)

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And son, with one quick cold front, summer comes to an end. Lows in the upper 30s are predicted for next week. I guess it's time to call for the furnace maintenance. It's also time for another song on my list of favorites from the Steve Miller Band...and today, band is emphasized. #5: Your Saving Grace That's right, the first one of two songs on the countdown that does not feature Steve Miller on lead vocals. This song was written by, and sung by, drummer Tim Davis. He did the vast majority of singing songs that Steve didn't in the 1968-70 incarnation of the band (with Boz Scaggs contributing vocals to four songs). Given Steve's ego it's amazing that he'd let a song he didn't sing lead on or write be the title song for an album, but that's what happened here. The second album Miller put out in 1969 was a little more bluesy (they were originally the Steve Miller Blues Band) than Brave New World (a trend that would continue on Number 5 in 1970). Now, don't ask me what this song is about. I just know it's beautiful. Tim Davis left the band after Number 5. He did a solo album in the early 70s. I remember Steve saying in an interview on Rockline that Davis had diabetes and lost a leg to the disease, putting an end to his music career. Complications of the disease eventually took his life in the late 80s. Your Saving Grace Written by Tim Davis From Your Saving Grace, 1969 Note the Peter Frampton-sounding "fa la la la la la la" near the end (the photo in the video is the 1968 SMB, left-right: Miller, Lonnie Turner, Tim Davis, Jim Peterman, Boz Scaggs):