Topic: New Tab Postings
Snowy enough for ya? 
Well, I suppose it all depends on where you are, but where I am we have plenty of it, and I'm sure we'll be getting more. (How did you like that thunder and lightning mixed into the blizzard?) So regardless of what the groundhogs said yesterday about an early Spring, one thing we can say for sure. For now, it's still winter time.
The Steve Miller Band song "Winter Time" appeared on the band's 1977 album Book Of Dreams. (It's one of my all-time favourite album covers.) That album charted at #2, went triple platinum, and also produced the singles "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", and "Swingtown". Later, the song also appeared on Greatest Hits 1974-78.
The problem I ran into tabbing this song is the same one I had a couple of years ago when I was going to tab April Wine's "Fast Train". Some of the guitar parts are on a capoed guitar, other parts are on non-capoed guitars. So I had to try to mark each part to note whether the tab is in relation to the guitar nut or the capo...and hope that it doesn't get too confusing. All of the parts can be played on a capoed guitar the way they're written in the tab, with the exception of a few bars in Verse 3. (Those parts go down to the first fret, so on a capoed guitar you'd have to play them another way.)
So if the weather's keeping you indoors, consider making the best of it by spending some time with this beautiful ballad.
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/millersteve-wintertime.txt
Updated: Thursday, February 3, 2011 4:44 AM EST
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Sometimes things happen in weird ways. Most people probably think I did a chord chart of a Stealers Wheel song to commemorate the recent passing away of Gerry Rafferty. Actually, "Star" was a song I had wanted to do a chord chart of for a long time. To start the new year, I had about three different songs I was considering as the first chord chart entry for the year. I opted for "Star". So Tuesday night (Jan. 4) I sat down with my guitar and worked it out. It went fairly quickly. After typing it up on the computer, I visited a site or two to gather some information to make a blog post to go along with the chord chart posting. It was only then -- after having done the chord chart -- that I learned Gerry Rafferty had passed away that very day. It was a total coincidence that I had decided to work out that song on that day.
"Star" is from the band's 1973 album Ferguslie Park, and was written by Joe Egan, the other half of the duo that was the core of Stealers Wheel.
2011
In November of 1984, Queen released the holiday single "Thank God It's Christmas". The song was released independent of any Queen album, with the B-side consisting of two songs from The Works, the band's album release from earlier that year. "Thank God It's Christmas" later appeared on the Queen album Greatest Hits III. 
In the 1990s, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart engaged in a musical side project, a band called The Lovemongers. Joining them in the venture was their long-time friend and songwriting partner Sue Ennis, as well as musicians Frank Cox and Ben Smith. The group released an EP and a full length CD, and in 1998 they released a Christmas CD entitled Here Is Christmas. 
As I recall, that album was a bit hard to come by, but I remember buying a cassette tape single of the album's title song. The B-side of that single was a very nice acoustic guitar and flute instrumental rendition of the traditional Christmas carol "Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella".