Steve Miller Band-Let Your Hair Down (2011)

Just as with their acclaimed previous album, "Bingo", the Steve Miller Band's seventeenth album delves deeper into the blues; in fact, both albums were recorded simultaneously. For this recording, Steve Miller's band included vocalist Sonny Charles, harmonica player Norton Buffalo, and guitarist Kenny Lee Lewis, who, along with Miller himself, co-wrote the riffs and solos on this album. Composed of covers of blues greats, Miller manages to make each version his own while respecting the original's essence. Robert Johnson's classic "Sweet Home Chicago", John Lee Hooker's "No More Doggin' ", Willie Dixon's "Pretty Thing", Jimmy McCracklin's "The Walk", and Muddy Waters' "Can't Be Satisfied", sound so fresh and revitalized that their original composers would surely be pleased with the final result.