Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs ( born June 8, 1944 in Canton, Ohio, USA, as William Royce Scaggs ) is an American musician and Grammy winner, who as a band leader, guitarist and singer over the years ( in Germany but rather as pure insider tip) has also made ​​a very good name in rock, R & B, blues, and only recently a so-called jazz crooner.

Biography

Boz Scaggs grew up in Oklahoma and Texas and was in his early years a school friend of guitarist Steve Miller, with whom he already in the late 1950s as a singer music made in Dallas in a band called The Marksmen. Later, both attended the University of Wisconsin and played together in various Blues-/Rock-Bands with. 1963 returned Scaggs returned to Dallas and joined there an R & B band called The Wigs at, with whom he went to Europe in 1964. When this group broke up but back in England, Scaggs remained for two more years in Europe and tried here as a street musician. He took in 1965 in Sweden his first solo album under the title Boz on. After Scaggs in 1967 was returned to the U.S., he settled in San Francisco and met again on childhood friend Steve Miller. As a member of the Steve Miller Band, he was involved in the production of two of their early albums (Children of the Future and Sailor ) involved. In 1968, Scaggs finally decided in future to work on his solo career.

End of the 1960s, Boz Scaggs signed Although a contract with the famous label Atlantic Records, brought in 1969 with the collaboration of Duane Allman and the Muscle Shoals band his supposed debut album Boz Scaggs out, but was still only a favorite of critics and was not a large audience for its highly embossed blues music. Even after moving to Columbia Records beginning of the 1970s and produced by Glyn Johns album Moments him commercial success continued to be denied. Although the reviews of his albums were mostly full of praise, but this is not achieved success in the sales charts. Only the the 1976 plate Silk Degrees finally made ​​the breakthrough hoped for; she established herself several weeks in second place of the U.S. album charts and sold today in the U.S. 4 million times. With singles such as Lowdown, Lido Shuffle and What Can I Say Boz Scaggs could also be placed in the British charts. As a band on Silk Degrees acted among others, the later Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro musician, bassist David Hungate, and keyboardist David Paich, which makes its appearance in the majority of the songs as a co -author. The follow-up album Down Two Then Left was awarded with a million records sold also platinum, could, however, show no hit singles. Only with Middle Man reached Boz Scaggs in 1980 again the top ten on the U.S. Billboard Charts # 8 The singles Breakdown Dead Ahead and Jojo came in the top 20 of the U.S. Hot -100. Produced by David Foster album also went platinum again and was much more rock than its predecessor thanks to the Toto Guitaristen Steve Lukather. With the single ballad Look What You've Done To Me from the soundtrack urban cowboy Scaggs had in the same year a third Top 20 hit. It is worth mentioning that the band on this item from the Toto members Steve Porcaro, Mike Porcaro and Steve Lukather and the Eagles musicians Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit composed.

After a greatest hits album hits in 1981 with the hit single Miss Sun to Boz Scaggs retired for several years largely from the music business and took care of almost exclusively to his own nightclub Slim's in San Francisco. In 1988 came his " comeback album " Other Roads, and a mature Scaggs started the second part of his career as a musician who is far less influenced by rock ' n ' roll than the first period. After his collaboration with Donald Fagen and the New York Rock and Soul Revue in 1992 and CDs as Some Change, Come On Home and Dig, Boz Scaggs is now regarded as very mellow and an experienced professional musicians. With the album But Beautiful Scaggs tried to last even a crooner of interpretations of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook.

Discography

  • Boz (1966 )
  • Boz Scaggs (1969 )
  • Moments (1970)
  • Boz Scaggs & Band (1971 )
  • My Time (1972 )
  • Slow Dancer ( 1974)
  • Runnin 'Blue (1974 )
  • Silk Degrees (1976 )
  • Silk Degrees (1976, MFSL 19? , 24 Karat Gold CD, UDCD 535, Remastered)
  • Slow Dancer ( 1977 re-release )
  • Down Two Then Left ( 1977)
  • Middle Man (1980 )
  • Hits! (1980)
  • Other Roads (1988 )
  • Early Recordings (1992 )
  • Boz The Ballade ( 1992)
  • Star Box - Collection ( 1993)
  • Some Change ( 1994)
  • Best Selection (1994, Japan)
  • Fade Into Light (1996, Japan)
  • Back In The Days (1996 )
  • Boz Scaggs "Live" 1980-1995 (1996, Promo)
  • Come On Home (1997)
  • My Time - Anthology 1969-1997 (1997, DCD)
  • Here's The Lowdown (1998)
  • Expo 1985 (1999, live )
  • Might Have To Cry (1999, UK, Live)
  • Dig (2001)
  • Songs From Boz Scaggs (2001)
  • But Beautiful - Standards: Volume 1 (2003)
  • Here's The Lowdown - Best Of Boz (2003)
  • In Concert (2003)
  • Greatest Hits Live (2004, DCD) (also known as Music - DVD)
  • Speak Low (2008)
  • Memphis ( 2013)

Singles USA

  • We Were Always Sweethearts # 61 USA 1971
  • Near You # 96 USA 1971
  • Dinah Flo # 86 USA 1972
  • It's Over # 38 USA 1976
  • Lowdown # 3 USA 1976
  • What Can I Say # 42 USA 1977
  • Lido Shuffle # 11 USA 1977
  • Hard Times # 58 USA 1977
  • Hollywood # 49 USA 1978
  • Breakdown Dead Ahead # 15 USA 1980
  • Jo Jo # 17 USA 1980
  • Look What You `ve Done To Me # 14 USA 1980
  • Miss Sun # 14 USA 1981
  • Heart Of Mine # 35 USA 1988
  • Shep Pettibone 45 Remix Cool Running USA 1988

Music awards

Canton (Ohio) Grammy Award Toto (Band) Compact Disc Digital Audio Integrated Authority File
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