Steve Miller Still Sings the Blues

Best known for such 1970s mega-hits as “The Joker” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” Steve Miller played the blues in Chicago in the mid-1960s after attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Copenhagen. “After I got back from Denmark, I didn’t have a band for the first time since I was 12 years old,” he told me when we spoke recently by phone. “The call of the blues was pretty strong.”