As Scaggs drops his new album, ‘Detour,’ we revisit his historic 1969 session for “Loan Me a Dime” with a young Duane Allman ...
THE LOWDOWN: Singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs has been on a creative roll in the last decade, releasing two standards albums and two soulful pop/rock and R&B-flavored blues records in ‘Memphis’ and the ...
Many of the covers here are such obvious fits for Scaggs' style, it's surprising he hadn't already recorded them some time in his history. "Rainy Night In Georgia" (penned by Tony Joe White, ...
Boz Scaggs. “Out of the Blues.” Concord Records. Sometimes with more gloss, at times with more grit, but always with great feeling, Boz Scaggs has kept some form of the blues close to the surface ...
Boz Scaggs calls the trio of albums he has released a trilogy. These releases — 2013’s “Memphis,” 2015’s “A Fool To Care” and his current album, “Out of the Blues” — have found him covering songs by ...
I got my first Boz Scaggs album, “Moments” sometime in 1971. The local FM radio stations were frequently playing “We Were Always Sweethearts” from this album. The song had Boz’s distinctive vocal ...
"Out of the Blues" is the third and final chapter in what Boz Scaggs likes to think of as a trilogy of albums exploring his musical roots. The adventure began in 2012 when he traveled to Memphis with ...
After a lull for a couple of weeks, the Lowell Summer Music Series announcements for the coming season have resumed, with news that Boz Scaggs will return to Boarding House Park on Saturday, June 30, ...
Boz Scaggs has written plenty of original music during the nearly five decades years since he began playing with the Steve Miller Band. But these days he’s immersing himself in the music of other ...
With the threesome of Boz Scaggs, Cassandra Wilson and Eliane Elias, Jazz at the Bowl tried out the eclectic programming philosophy of its June cousin, the Playboy Jazz Festival. It isn't worth the ...
"I've done a couple of jazz standards records [2003's But Beautiful and 2008's Speak Low," reflects 74-year-old Boz Scaggs of Plano, Texas, born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio, warming up to the ...
When Boz Scaggs released Silk Degrees back in 1976, I was probably too young to have a girlfriend. But I did have one, briefly at least. For some reason she picked me, and I was over the moon. You ...