I’m probably a bit older than you. I discovered Steve Miller in 1969, my freshman year of college, with Brave New World. That was a huge album that year. Ben Sidran on piano. Nicky Hopkins played keyboard on It’s Your Saving Grace. Those 2 albums knocked me out; no sound quite like that.
I still don’t know the early albums, I probably ought to check them out, eh
Don’t forget a young guitarist/vocalist in his early bands was Boz Scaggs...