Billboard.com is reporting that Steve Miller hasn’t released a new studio album in 17 years but he plans to make up for lost time with a pair of blues and R&B cover sets that will come out this year and next.
“Bingo!,” Miller’s first Steve Miller Band release on his own Space Cowboy Records label in partnership with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud, comes out June 15 and features songs by B.B. King (“Rock Me Baby”), Lowell Fulsom (“Tramp”), Jimmie Reed (“You Got Me Dizzy”) and three Jimmie Vaughan compositions, among others. Miller plans to put a companion album out in the spring of 2011.