Boz Scaggs Biography

Boz Scaggs was born June 8, 1944 and is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees. Scaggs continued to release and record in the 1980s and 1990s, and still tours into the 2000s.

Despite good reviews, his sole Atlantic album, Boz Scaggs, featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and slide guitarist Duane Allman, performing Fenton Robinsons Loan Me A Dime, achieved lukewarm sales, as did follow-up albums on Columbia Records. (His Atlantic album was deleted and replaced with the exact same cover and tracks, but it was given a new catalog number and it was completely remixed in Los Angeles in 1977. This new remix brought Duane Allmans guitar up to the front, but it greatly altered the original feeling. On the track Finding Her, the volume fades down extremely low for the last minute, an obvious mixing error by engineer Craymore Stevens. The original has never been available on CD.)

In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the U.S. charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: Lowdown, Lido Shuffle, and What Can I Say, as well as the MOR standard Were All Alone, later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, did not fare as well commercially as Silk Degrees.

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