Boz Scaggs
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Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 19 June 1976
THIS BOY certainly eats up producers. ...
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Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages audio, 20 October 1997
Boz goes through his recording career, starting with Jann Wenner's role in the first solo album at Muscle Shoals; the albums Moments and Boz Scaggs & Band; returning to Muscle Shoals for My Time; the Johnny-Bristol-produced Slow Dancer, featuring James Jamerson and others; Silk Degrees and 'Lowdown' as a crossover pop hit, plus producer Joe Wissert; involvement in the New York Rock & Soul Revue with Donald Fagen; his Some Change album with co-producer Ricky Fataar; the Japanese-only release Fade into Light, and his new Come on Home covers album.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.8mb, interview length: 35' 11" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Boz Scaggs: Matrix, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 19 March 1970
The Heaviest Group in Town ...
Review by John Morthland, Creem, June 1971
BOZ SCAGGS' FIRST solo album was so close to perfect that it must be considered a tough act to follow. Still, one might have hoped ...
Boz Scaggs: Moments (CBS 64248)
Review by Nick Jones, Cream, June 1971
WHEN AN album takes so much in, puts so much out, and somehow remains itself, then before long the great cosmic public are going to ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 27 May 1972
Loraine Alterman in New York previews Fillmore, the film about America's legendary rock centre... and talks to its star, super-impresario Bill Graham ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1972
BOZ SCAGGS has one of the sweetest, most engaging voices around, and his recent albums have been on the sweet and friendly side, too. Records ...
Various artists: Fillmore: The Last Days (Fillmore Z3X 31390)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1972
HIS SPIRIT is omnipresent in this elaborate package. He has written extensive program notes to the handsome booklet. He is there suddenly at the beginning ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 June 1973
BOZ SCAGGS is the cult hero with the strongest claim to wider fame. Hes in Britain all summer to play and record...he talks to MMs ...
Boz Scaggs: Slow Dancer (Columbia)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1974
SLOW DANCER is Boz Scaggs' fifth album, and you have to wonder when he's going to start repeating himself, because none of them sound the ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 22 June 1974
WE'RE just talking, comparing favourite singers, when Boz Scaggs happens to mention Bobby "Blue" Bland. ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974
WHY DO people make albums? There are probably three reasons: ...
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (Columbia)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1976
For eight years, Boz Scaggs has been making playable, durable albums (counting the new one, there are now six solo LPs, and before that Scaggs ...
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (CBS)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 3 April 1976
BOZ SCAGGS is a musician I've always had a great affection for, from way back in the old Steve Miller days when I was still ...
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (CBS 81193)
Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
THIS IS a really great dance record. Put on the first three cuts of either side and you'll get going anybody who's got rhythm in ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1976
LOUNGING IN HIS suite at the Pierre Hotel, an opulent home for the wealthy, once owned by Paul Getty, Boz Scaggs completes a picture of ...
Boz Scaggs: Central Park, New York
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 14 August 1976
STROLLING THROUGH New York's Central Park on a hot and sultry Friday afternoon was pretty much like reliving a David Peel song. The paths and ...
Boz Scaggs: Bar-Room Brawls Are Out Man — I've Gotten Sophisticated
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
Yes, this is one for the, err, cognoscenti. It's BOZ SCAGGS man but coming on strong like Bryan Ferry's wardrobe. Admirer MAX BELL talks ...
Boz Scaggs' Second Bite of Cake
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 20 November 1976
DAVID HANCOCK sips champagne with U.S. chart top ...
Boz Scaggs: Down Two Then Left (Columbia JC 34729)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, January 1978
MO' DANCING & SLICK DEBRIS ...
Boz Scaggs: Portrait of The Image as a Reality
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 14 January 1978
The elusive BOZ SCAGGS picks up the phone in deepest America and suavely refutes all allegations of artifice. 'My image is no pose man ...
Boz Scaggs: Down Two, Then Left (Columbia)
Review by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1978
SEEING AS how I hate Bloomingdale's with an untowards eccentric passion (due to the fact that they sell shitty shoes and dictate an intensely shallow ...
Boz Scaggs Treads the MOR Tightrope
Profile and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 16 February 1978
Down Two Then Left Plays Funk Against Fancy ...
Boz Scaggs: Down Two then Left (Columbia JC 34729)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Rolling Stone, 23 February 1978
BOZ SCAGGS is a little like sex and show business. When he's good, he's very good, and when he's bad, he's not that bad. Down ...
Boz Scaggs: Middle Man (Columbia)
Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980
WATCHING THE degeneration of an artist's talents is no fun, especially when they've done truly classic work in the past. Boz Scaggs has never recovered ...
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 5 July 1980
BOZ SCAGGS graced our fair capital last week, dropping off en route to an Italian beach with his wife and kids. Mindful of the relative ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1988
Other Roads ends eight-year layoff ...
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1994
WHEN BOZ SCAGGS MADE HIS FIRST tentative steps back into the music industry that he had abandoned for most of the '80s, he found his ...
Boz Scaggs: My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 1997
STILL REGARDED over here primarily as a kind of lounge-lizard soulman — sort of Bryan Ferry with roots — thanks to his hugely successful mid-70s ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 August 2001
The least driven man in rhythm and blues has somehow produced another album. Adam Sweeting gets the lowdown ...
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 September 2001
Boz Scaggs took his time – more than seven years between new albums. ...
Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 18 October 2001
LIKE ONE OF his ballad's gently lolling melodies, William Royce "Boz" Scaggs takes an easygoing approach to recording. Never one to give in to a ...
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2003
WITH HIS new album hitting No. 1 on the jazz charts, Boz Scaggs is a changed man. "I'll use what I've learned in this process ...
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: Tales from Austin's Big Bang
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, 28 October 2005
TIME IS A CONTINUUM that's sometimes hard to trace. Look too far back and things get hazy. Try gazing into the future and it's all ...
Boz Scaggs: Your Mom Loved Him... And Still Does
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 16 February 2011
THESE DAYS, it's good to be the Wizard of Boz. In recent times, Boz Scaggs has been recording and touring as he pleases, including a ...
Vinyl Icon: The Making of Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, February 2016
NOBODY WOULD HAVE thought that a former Steve Miller Band sideman whose name sounded like a disease of sheep would suddenly, after six failed solo ...
see also Steve Miller
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