(CNN) -- Steve Miller admits he has no idea why it took him 17 years to release a new studio album. He also admits he was in no rush to do so. "We continued to sell records from our touring, and we were really in this sort of magical place where we didn't have to make records until I really wanted to," said Miller, 66, in an interview with CNN Radio. "I've recorded lots of projects, but just haven't bothered to release them." "BINGO! ", however, is not remaining on the shelf. Steve Miller Band's first new studio album since 1993's "Wide River" hits stores on June 15, and sees Miller embracing the blues music he immersed himself in growing up in Dallas. "BINGO!" features his interpretations of tracks like B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby," Jimmy Reed's "You Got Me Dizzy" and Jimmie Vaughan's "Hey Yeah" -- the album's first single.
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"BINGO!" features interpretations of B.B. King, Jimmie Vaughan tracks
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"I wanted to get some material and make it my own," Steve Miller says
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Album has "lots of lead guitar and cool guitar parts"
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With growth of internet, audiences today "are really hipper," he says
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