★★★★★
A thousand bluesmen toiling for a thousand years might have come up with Let Your Hair Down. Covering the classics ribs the genre's skeleton, from its progenitors to its practitioners large and small, but such LPs fall together perfectly only once in a blue moon. Cut from the same sessions as 2010's Bingo...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-06-27
★★★★★
Steve Miller scored his biggest hits in the 70's & 80's with for example 'The Joker', 'Fly Like An Eagle' and of course 'Abracadabra'. And although the man is known for writing very smooth, laidback poprock with jazzy influences or even some westcoast here and there his formative musical years he spent in the presence of blues greats as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy and also Chuck Berry.And that's exactly what we heard on last year's Bingo...
- www.rockreport.be
2011-06-06
★★★★★
The bulk of Miller's 70s and 80s output has been the subject of a reissue campaign over the last few months, but what's he been up to in the 21st Century? In common with 2010's Bingo! album, this new set is firmly rooted in the sturdy blues-rock of the guitarist/singer's humble 60s beginnings: a happy mix of familiar standards and lesser-known gems...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
This a companion piece to last year?s ?Bingo? album but it stands up strongly enough on its own as well. Simply put, brilliant Blues played by the guy who has been around forever and still looks like your older brother and not your dad. The recipe is pretty straightforward: a bunch of covers of tunes that Miller has either grown up with or been playing for fun for years; get a powerhouse band together and let it all flow ? simples. The end result is just sublime...
- www.music-news.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
Fly Like An Eagle was a classic album in its time - as central to the mid-70s as 10cc's The Original Soundtrack or Frampton Comes Alive. And it's no wonder, as Steve Miller made a record of bluesy, polished space-rock, adored for its subtle use of synthesiser. It's the sort of album that could only be made by a pop star who's suddenly become very rich...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
This may be Steve Miller's first studio album in 17 years but he's not been messing with any tried and tested formula. Essentially blues covers, Bingo! is drawn from sessions at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in 2008, which Miller co-produced with the prolific Andy Johns, brother of Glyn Johns who engineered The Steve Miller Band's earliest recordings...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
When Miller and band took the stage at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday the reaction was slightly less than ecstatic - after all it had been over 20 years since he had graced any London stage and he has not been prolific in the last few years ('Bingo!' is his first album for 17 years)...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sound: Before listening to this album, I hadn't heard much of The Steve Miller Band's work. I'd only heard the obvious singles, like Rock N' Me and Abracadabra. I wasn't sure what to expect. Miller and his band show great musicianship and ability throughout the album, from the first track. The rhythm section is relentlessly tight, followed by perfect rhythm guitars all through...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Stevie "Guitar" Miller gets downplayed when talk turns to great West Coast acts who got out of the '60s, but this Wisconsin-via-Texas stylist is better than his biggest hits—"Abracadabra", "Fly Like An Eagle"—might suggest. This package heads for all the usual sources, from the Children Of The Future album onward, and predictably ignores 1972's remarkable Recall The Beginning—the psych-pop blues and spatial-effects electronica of that album still sound ahead of the game...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19