Who Doesn’t Wanna Hang Out With a Space Cowboy?
Those first couple of lines just sound mostly like slick nonsense – like a bunch of pompous up-talk, but it also makes you instantly like the guy. Who doesn’t want to hang out with someone who calls himself a space cowboy and gangster of love?
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Steve Miller grew up in two places: Milwaukee and Dallas. He started playing guitar and hanging out with some real guitar legends when he was a little kid. Both Les Paul – his godfather – and T-Bone Walker were close family friends. Miller ended up dropping out of the University of Wisconsin, after which he and some of his buddies moved to Chicago. They were on a mission to play the blues.