Boz Scaggs will release a new album, his first in seven years, on Oct. 17. Detour follows the Grammy-nominated Out of the Blues, and, like that album and its immediate predecessors, will feature songs ...
Ohio-born, Texas-bred singer and songwriter Boz Scaggs began his musical life as a bandmate of friend Steve Miller in the early '60s. After a stalled start to a solo career in 1965 with an album ...
The album offers a mix of familiar and more-obscure songs that previously were recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Irma Thomas, and Lonnie Johnson. Detour came together after ...
Most people of a certain age recall Boz Scaggs for his 1976 breakthrough album, Silk Degrees. With hits like “Georgia,” “Lido Shuffle” and — the number three hit — “Lowdown,” it was a must-own album ...
Born William Royce Scaggs, the musician was given the nickname Bosley, which was eventually shortened to Boz, while attending a private school in Dallas during the 1950s. At the same school, Scaggs ...
All of which is to say: Never mind the fickle taste meter bollocks, here is one of America’s greatest living blue-eyed soul/pop/blues singers alive. That much was handsomely confirmed by Scaggs’s ...
Boz Scaggs will perform at Interlochen Center for the Arts, near Traverse City, on Wednesday, July 22 at 8 pm. Scaggs says this in a voice connoting neither irritation nor amusement, but simply ...
There aren’t a lot of people who can say they’ve been doing the same job for more than 40 years and still feel like they’re improving at it, but Boz Scaggs can. Scaggs, 69, brings his Memphis Tour to ...
On his first studio album in seven years, Plano-raised singer Boz Scaggs dips into the Great American Songbook and also revisits a tune he wrote before “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown” made him a star in ...