Steve Miller

Steve Miller's longest-serving bandmate railed against accusations that low ticket sales, not extreme weather, caused their tour to be called off.

"Extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable."

He's gonna keep on a-rocking you, baby.

Rockers will visit the northeastern United States in late August.

Guitarist described the rapper as "one of those timeless originators building something new on a long musical legacy of original artists."

He steps in for ailing openers.

Fiftieth-anniversary box set arrives in September.

"I just wanted to, you know, not sing about all the negative s--t but try and do something positive."

Album's title track led the way, even though his record label hated it.

"I felt like it was really in a groove," frontman says of productive late-'70s period.