Boz Scaggs: Fade Into Light [Dual Disc]

Boz Scaggs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Dual Disc
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• Run Time: 134 minutes
• ASIN: B000AV2G0Q
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lowdown (Unplugged)

2. Some Things Happen

3. Just Go

4. Love T.K.O.

5. Fade Into Light

6. Harbor Lights

7. Lost It

8. Time

9. Sierra

10. We’re All Alone

11. Simone

12. I’ll Be The One

Editorial Reviews

The CD side contains the album audio, while the DVD side offers the entire album audio in enhanced stereo. Also included on the DVD are live performances of "Lowdown," "Harbor Lights" and "We’re All Alone," captured in 5.1 Surround Sound and High Definition video, from the Coming Home Productions DVD "Boz Scaggs Greatest Hits Live" filmed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classics Revisited and Given New Life (4.5 stars), October 15, 2005

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Juan Mobili (Valley Cottage, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This album, technically, is not new. Having been recorded over five years ago and released only in Japan, Scaggs chooses to revisit a number of his classic tunes -an unplugged "Lowdown," "Sierra," "Harbor Lights" and an glorious " We're All Alone"among others- and record them again under a moodier, at times even bluesier, light. Think of some place between "But Beautiful" and a more acoustic "Desire," if you are comparing albums.

The core band, as well as the string arrangements, are tuned in to Scaggs' intent and contribute a great backdrop for his voice, which sounds quite great throughout these versions, the best example being the new take on "Simone."

So, this is not quite a new album, we know the songs and it comes out after a long and inexplicable domestic delay, but the music contained here is pure Boz, sometimes at his best.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Urbanity Unplugged, Now Affordable, October 24, 2005

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Kurt Harding "bon vivant" (Boerne TX) - See all my reviews
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It must have been good sales of the Japanese release of this magnificent CD that convinced Scaggs' record company that Fade Into Light would sell here. Personally, I can't imagine why "the suits" ever thought otherwise! I noticed that some of Boz' older albums previously unremastered and unavailable are now remastered and available as Japanese imports. Hopefully sales there will spur re-release here!
I first bought Fade Into Light on this site about five years ago when it was available only as a Japanese import and at a very high price. Then recently when I was out CD shopping, I noticed that it was now issued here as a CD/DVD and at a very good sale price, so I bought it again.
Let me tell you, urbanity unplugged is now affordable. What once was tempting only to the most hard core Boz Scaggs fans is now priced for the masses. The intimacy and romance of this recording is incredible! Most of the songs here are from Scaggs' middle period that began with Lowdown, but there are a couple from his modern period as well after he had broken away from his flirtation with disco and lachrymose pop ballads. The songs are mostly well-chosen. There are some other songs I'd like to have heard "unplugged", and some I'd like to have seen left off, but that is usually the case.
The CD side is very nearly perfect, but the real treat comes when you flip it over and slip it into your DVD player and listen in enhanced stereo. The crystalline sound is astounding. Then there are the high-definition videos in surround sound that will just knock you out! My favorites here are the title cut, Harbor Lights, Sierra, We're All Alone, and a stunning rendition of Simone.
So order Fade Into Light today. Then, set aside some time to kick back with a good bottle of wine and a loved one and be prepared for whatever the music might inspire. This one gets my highest recommendation!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Boz, July 21, 2006

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W. Rodgers (Bucks County, PA) - See all my reviews
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Boz Scaggs has delighted fans for many years. He takes several of his classic songs, some better known than others, and remixes them on this fabulous collection of songs. If you are a big Boz Scaggs fans you will note a few very subtle changes in a few songs that on the surface seem to just be verbatim copies. If you like Boz Scaggs you will love this cd.