In 1987, Steve Miller was virtually retired, living in Seattle, cruising the ocean on his yacht. Yet he owed Capitol Records one more album and so we decided to record a lot of the jazz and blues songs he loved as a sophisticated way to say "goodbye" to his fans and pals at the label. In the end, this record became a gourmet item in his Capitol catalog, but it got him back on the road and, more than twenty years later, he's still out there, one of the longest "goodbyes" ever,.

The 14th studio album from the Steve Miller Band was released in 1986 and featuring a guest appearance by saxophonist Kenny G. It includes the hit "I Want to Make the World Turn Around", which spent six weeks at the top of the Album Rock Tracks chart in the U.S.A.