{"id":42070,"date":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/bingo\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","slug":"bingo","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been waiting for this album since I read a couple of years ago that Steve Miller and his band were working on new material for an upcoming release. Needless to say, I eventually gave up on it and it seemed to me the band did, too, as they toured throughout 2009 with no news about the new release surfacing at all. That is, of course, until now, because apparently Bingo! <\/i>was recorded alongside another album due for release early next year.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if the delay in releasing this one had anything to do with the untimely passing of the great Norton Buffalo in October of 2009, but the disc is dedicated to him and his work on here is as vital as it always was. Bingo! <\/i>is the first studio album form The Steve Miller Band in seventeen long years, and I\u2019m pleased to say the wait was more than worth it, because this is the best thing I\u2019ve heard all year. The boys have produced a vibrant, slick, and rocking album of blues\/rock covers that sound just as good as their classic work of the \u201870s and early \u201880s.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s voice is ageless and he breezes through these songs with a rock star cool that belies his 66 years. The band were on fire in the studio, and it\u2019s Joseph Wooten\u2019s piano playing that\u2019s the star of this one. His brilliant work is the highlight of this set for me and it\u2019s a big reason why these songs work as well as they do. All of the arrangements are as tight as can be but are still free enough for the guys to cut loose and shake, rattle, and roll when they need to.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible for me to select favorites from this set because they are all brilliant and there\u2019s not one song that doesn\u2019t work or falls flat. But a few highlights start with the opener Jimmie Vaughan\u2019s \u201cHey Yeah\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Cha Know,\u201d the latter which features some rhythm guitar by Kenny Lee Lewis and some doo-wop inspired backing vocals.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani makes a couple of welcome guest appearances on the B.B. King classic \u201cRock Me Baby\u201d (which is worth the price of the disc on its own) and another Vaughan track, \u201cSweet Soul Vibe.\u201d A blistering romp through Earl King\u2019s \u201cCome On (Let The Good Times Roll)\u201d finds the band again having more fun reenergizing a classic party song. The pace drops a few cogs for a stellar slow-burning rendition of \u201cAll Your Love (I Miss Loving),\u201d of which Miller\u2019s sublime, longing performance is a definite highlight.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cYou Got Me Dizzy\u201d and \u201cWho\u2019s Been Talkin\u2019?\u201d fit really well with the rest of the material on offer here, and \u201cTramp\u201d is the most fun you can have with your pants on.\u00a0 The album\u2019s closer is one of my all time favorite songs, the Jessie Hill-penned Ike and Tina classic \u201cOoh Poo Pah Doo,\u201d which the band have transformed into a tight, bouncy boogie that works a treat. Miller chose wisely not to take on Tina\u2019s fiery delivery but gave it a cool Tom Petty-esque <\/i>reading instead.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Well, look at that, it seems every song here\u2019s a highlight after all. Bingo!<\/i><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":30408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5684],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42070","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-steve-miller-band","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42070"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42070"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}