Rock Love

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Rock Love | type = studio | longtype = / live album | artist = Steve Miller Band | cover = RLSM.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = September 1971 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock | length = 38:11 | label = Capitol | producer = Steve Miller | prev_title = Number 5 | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden | next_year = 1972 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web|author=James Chrispell |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-love-mw0000841550 |title=Rock Love - Steve Miller Band |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=2018-07-28}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = C−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|accessdate=March 8, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734}}</ref> }} '''''Rock Love''''' is a half live / half (sixth) studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band. The album was released in September 1971, and compiled by Capitol Records. All of Miller's previous backing band had left following the recording of the previous album, save bassist Bobby Winkelman. They were replaced by members of Winkelman's previous group, the psychedelic rock band Frumious Bandersnatch for this record, including Ross Valory (a future member of Journey) on bass, and Jack King on drums. Bobby Winkelman was in the band (having moved to rhythm guitar) during all three live recordings on the album's first side, but is not credited on the album cover. Likewise, David Denny, who would rejoin the band in 1976, is on lead guitar on the first two - again, not credited.<ref name="BC">{{cite web|author=Bruno Ceriotti |url=https://brunoceriotti.weebly.com/steve-miller.html |title=Steve Miller The Early Years 1943-1974 |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2025-02-10}}</ref>

The album consists of three blues-rock tracks recorded live, including lengthy jam-style "Love Shock" which lasts nearly 12 minutes and includes an extensive drum solo, and four studio tracks. The first song starts with the words "I'm going to play you some blues 'cos I know you like that", but some critics disagreed, criticising the album's songs as "generic white-boy blueisms". Unlike Miller's previous five albums, this album was a commercial failure.<ref name="allmusic1"/>

==Track listing==

{{Track listing | headline = Side one {{nobold|(live)}} | all_writing = Steve Miller

| title1 = The Gangster Is Back | length1 = 2:28

| title2 = Blues With Out Blame | length2 = 5:41

| title3 = Love Shock | length3 = 11:43 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two {{nobold|(studio)}}

| title1 = Let Me Serve You | length1 = 2:26

| title2 = Rock Love | length2 = 2:28

| title3 = Harbor Lights | length3 = 4:06

| title4 = Deliverance | length4 = 9:19 |total_length = 38:11 }}

==Personnel== *Steve Miller – lead guitar, vocals *Ross Valory – bass guitar *Jack King – drums *Bobby Winkelman – rhythm guitar (1–3, not credited) *David Denny - lead guitar (1–2, not credited) *Tracks 1–2 were recorded live in Dania, Florida.<ref name="BC"/> *Track 3 was recorded live in Pasadena, California.

==Charts== '''Album''' - Billboard (United States) {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="width:550px;" |- !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Position |- |align="left"|1971 |align="left"|The Billboard 200 |align="left"|82 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:1971 albums Category:Steve Miller Band albums Category:Capitol Records albums