Let Your Hair Down (album)

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Let Your Hair Down
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 19, 2011
Recorded2008–2009
Genre Rock, blues rock
Length41:50
Label Sailor/Loud & Proud/Roadrunner/Space Cowboy
Producer Steve Miller, Andy Johns
Steve Miller Band chronology
Bingo!
(2010)
Let Your Hair Down
(2011)

Let Your Hair Down is the seventeenth studio album by the Steve Miller Band, released on April 19, 2011. [1]

Contents

Let Your Hair Down was recorded alongside the group's previous album, Bingo! , which was released 10 months earlier. Like Bingo!, this album is a collection of blues and R&B covers, and as of 2023, it is the Steve Miller Band's most recent studio album.

Like Bingo, the artwork was designed by StormStudios, with a plethora of visual puns used in the pictures (the cover shows a man with no hair, but a hare sitting on his head, and a small ladder at the side).

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Snatch It Back and Hold It" Amos Blakemore, Buddy Guy 3:58
2."I Got Love If You Want It" James H. Moore 2:30
3."Just a Little Bit" Ralph Bass, Columbus Perry, John Thornton, Earl E. Washington2:55
4."Close Together" Jimmy Reed 2:53
5."No More Doggin'" Rosco Gordon, Jules Taub 2:51
6."Pretty Thing" Willie Dixon 2:56
7."Can't Be Satisfied" Muddy Waters 3:40
8."Sweet Home Chicago" Robert Johnson 2:41
9."Love the Life I Live"Dixon3:21
10."The Walk" Jimmy McCracklin 2:58
Special edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)" Mel London 2:40
12."I Ain't Got You" Calvin Carter 1:45
13."Tell Me What's the Reason"Florence Cadrez3:09
14."Driftin' Blues" Charles Brown, Eddie Williams, Johnny Moore 3:32

Personnel

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  1. 1 2 "Let Your Hair Down review". Allmusic . Retrieved 30 June 2011.