In anticipation of his forthcoming Welcome To The Vault box set, Steve Miller has shared a never previously released version of the 1956 Bo Diddley-penned Mickey & Sylvia hit, “Love Is Strange”. Hear it now in the player below.

The newly released version of “Love Is Strange” was recorded by Miller in 1974 and is one of 38 previously unreleased rarities featured in the box set that also includes demos, rehearsals, outtakes, vintage concert performances and 5 newly uncovered original Steve Miller Band songs recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. 

The accompanying DVD collects 21 live performances, including rare footage from 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, a Dutch TV filmed performance of the Fillmore West from 1970, a 43-minute September 1973 concert at New York’s Palace Theater broadcast on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (unseen since the ’70s), an ABC In Concert performance with James Cotton (1974), a performance of “Abracadabra” from Michigan’s Pine Knob from that album tour in 1982, and selections from Austin City Limits (2011), as well as Miller’s intimate 1990 performance with Les Paul at New York City’s Fat Tuesday’s.

Additionally, Welcome to the Vault is accompanied by a 100-page hardbound book of photos, memorabilia and artifacts from Miller’s personal collection, as well as an exclusive 9,000-word essay by renowned rock journalist David Fricke.

The set, due out October 11, will also be available as a 52-track digital collection.

The Steve Miller Band is currently on a 36-city tour with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives. It continues through the end of August, wrapping up with a two-night finale at Woodinville, WA’s Chateau Ste. Michelle on August 30 and 31. Miller has also announced a three-night stand at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas October 2nd, 4th and 5th.

Click here for a list of dates.

Steve Miller Band “Love Is Strange”

Steve Miller Band Welcome to the Vault Box Set Trailer

Steve Miller Band – Welcome to the Vault CD 1 Track Listing:

1. Blues with a Feeling (Live) (1969) *
2. Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around – Alternate Version (1969) *
3. Super Shuffle (Live) (1967) **
4. It Hurts Me Too (Feat. Steve Miller Band) (Live) (1967)
5. Industrial Military Complex Hex – Alternate Version (1970) *
6. Living in the USA (1968)
7. Kow Kow Calculator – Alternate Version (1973) *
8. Going to Mexico – Alternate Version (1966) *
9. Quicksilver Girl – Alternate Version (1968) *
10. Jackson-Kent Blues – Alternate Version (1970) *
11. Crossroads (Live) (1973) *
12. Hesitation Blues (1972) **
13. Seasons – Alternate Version (1973) *
14. Say Wow! (1973) **
15. Never Kill Another Man – Alternate Version (Live) (1971) *

Steve Miller Band – Welcome to the Vault CD 2 Track Listing:

1. The Gangster is Back (Live) (1971)
2. Space Cowboy – Instrumental Version (1969) *
3. Space Cowboy – Alternate Version (Live) (1973) *
4. The Joker (1973)
5. The Lovin’ Cup (1973)
6. Killing Floor (1975) *
7. Evil (Live) (1973)8. Echoplex Blues (1973) **
9. Rock’n Me – Alternate Version 1 (1976) *
10. Rock’n Me – Alternate Version 2 (1976) *
11. Tain’t it the Truth (1976) *
12. Freight Train Blues (1976) *
13. True Fine Love – Alternate Version (1975) *
14. The Stake – Alternate Version (1976) *
15. My Babe – Alternate Version (1982) *
16. That’s the Way It’s Got to Be (1974) **
17. Double Trouble (1992) *
18. Love is Strange (1974) *
19. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) – Alternate Version (1992) *

Steve Miller Band – Welcome to the Vault CD 3 Track Listing:

1. I Wanna Be Loved (Live) (1990) *
2. Fly Like an Eagle – Alternate Version (1974) *
3. Space Intro (1976)
4. Fly Like an Eagle (1976)
5. The Window – Alternate Version (1974) *
6. Mercury Blues – Alternate Version (1975) *
7. Jet Airliner – Alternate Version (1976) *
8. Take the Money and Run (1976)
9. Dance, Dance, Dance (1976)
10. Swingtown – Alternate Version (1976) *
11. Winter Time (1977)
12. Who Do You Love? (1984)
13. Abracadabra (1982)
14. Macho City – Short Version (1981)
15. Take the Money and Run – Alternate Version (Live) (2016) *
16. Bizzy’s Blue Tango* (2004)
17. Lollie Lou (T-Bone Walker) (Live) (1951) *
18. Lollie Lou (Steve Miller) (Live) (2016) *

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDING
** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG

Steve Miller Band – Welcome to the Vault DVD Track Listing:

Monterey International Pop Festival – 1967
– Mercury Blues
– Super Shuffle

The Fillmore West – Dutch TV Show El Dorado (Pik-In) – 1970
– Kow Kow Calculator
– Space Cowboy

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert – 1973
– Star Spangled Banner
– Living in the USA
– Space Cowboy
– Mary Lou
– Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
– The Gangster is Back
– The Joker
– Come on in My Kitchen
– Seasons
– Fly Like an Eagle
– Living in the USA (Reprise) 

ABC In Concert with James Cotton – 1974
– Just a Little Bit

Pine Knob, Michigan – 1982
– Abracadabra

Steve Miller and Les Paul at Fat Tuesday’s – 1990 
– I Wanna be Loved
– CC Rider

Live from Austin City Limits – 2011 
– Fly Like an Eagle
– Living in the USA