Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B000002I9D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,399 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #21 in Music > R&B > Soul > Blue-Eyed Soul

Track Listings

1. I'm Easy

2. I'll Be Long Gone

3. Another Day (Another Letter)

4. Now You're Gone

5. Finding Her

6. Look What I Got

7. Waiting For A Train

8. Loan Me A Dime

9. Sweet Release

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCAGGS,BOZ
Title: BOZ SCAGGS
Street Release Date: 11/01/1988
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Muscle Shoals plus Duane Allman plus Boz--a classic, November 23, 2003

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John Stodder "a.k.a. Juan La Princi" (livin' just enough) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boz Scaggs (Audio CD)

The rhythm section that propelled the great Atlantic soul singers like Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding...the legendary lead guitarist Duane Allman just as he was forming his great band...the keys to the kingdom were handed to the former Steve Miller Band guitarist and aspiring singer Boz Scaggs for his debut solo album in 1969...and boy oh boy did Boz ever deliver!

"Boz Scaggs" is another candidate for the greatest overlooked, unjustly forgotten album of the classic rock era. It wasn't overlooked in its own day. Back when FM radio was "free form" and could play 10 minute-long cuts, the amazing "Loan Me a Dime," a delicately soulful blues wail that evolves into a monstrous Allman guitar workout, was a staple, especially at night. But the whole album is as good as that climactic moment. "I'll Be Long Gone," which Tracey Nelson also memorably covered, is an emotional inspiration. There are many other highlights--"Look What I Got" has the emotional directness of the Band; "Sweet Release" is heavenly soul. The album is sequenced beautifully; it is almost flawless.

A lot of fans of this album like to bemoan the fact that Boz Scaggs seemed to "go commercial" in later years, especially with "Silk Degrees." I think this is the wrong way to look at his career. This album is so complete, so rich, and so thoroughly occupies the territory, what else could he have done with it? Scaggs obviously loves the whole wide expanse of soul, blues and R & B, and feels no need to settle into a single groove within that broad category. So, with each album, he explores a sound as thoroughly, creatively and thoughtfully as he can, and then, on his subsequent album, moves on to explore another aspect. "Silk Degrees" happened to be very successful, but it's just as fresh as this album, a classy, creative take on the dance music of its time. "Middle Man" went even further uptown; it is the only Steely Dan-influenced album that belongs on the same shelf with them.

Some day, a label like Rhino is going to do the kind of comprehensive job on Scaggs' career that they have done with other artists of this period, finally releasing the albums that have sunk out of sight like "Moments," unearthing some unreleased and obscure tracks that show his work with his consistently great array of sidemen, remastering (although this disk, old as it is, sounds just fine), maybe digging out some live performances (Scaggs has never released a full live album), and finally get this great artist the credit he is due.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There's Hidden Beauty In This Underrated Gem, January 19, 2001

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"marleyscott" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boz Scaggs (Audio CD)

This is surely one of the two or three most underrated albums of the 1970's. Featuring the deft Muscle Shoals session players, Roger Hawkins, (drums) David Hood, (bass) and Barry Beckett, (keyboards) the overall feel of this recording is something along the lines of Booker T meets JJ Cale. Maybe that's a bit of a stretch but there is an undeniable downhome groove mixed with a rich Hammond B3 flavor and rounded out by the stunning background vocals of three fine young ladies, whose names completely escape me.

The opening track is a beauitully crafted version of the Jimmy Rogers classic, "Waiting For A Train", that sets the tone for what's to come. "Now Your Gone" features Duane Allman on dobro, in a virtuoso performance on an instrument he played far too seldom. By most accounts "Loan Me A Dime" is the albums standout. Perhaps that's because it was featured in the first Duane Allman anthology. No doubt this is an inspired performance by all and showcases Duane's incomprable prowess on electric slide guitar.

On a personel note, I first listened to this album on the day I learned of Duane's passing and felt compelled to play it over and over again. I remember holding the album cover and looking at that great picture of Duane, standing .... and covering up his genitles, wearing nothing but those outrageous mutton chops and a huge smile. Along with the album cover, I had tickets in hand for an Allman Brothers concert at Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day 1971, (it was the first concert performed by the ABB without Duane). This wonderful album by Boz Scaggs is further testment to the enormous talent that was Duane Allman. There's hidden beauty here and another side of Duane and Boz, many have never heard. Like two good ole' country boys sittin' back with some great musicians pickin' and singin' just for the fun of it.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Overlooked Gem, May 18, 2000

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"decristo46" (Los Angeles, Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boz Scaggs (Audio CD)

This was Boz's first record, produced by Jann Wenner (Of Rolling Stone fame) with a shortlived stay at Atlantic Records. Bozz would go on to create that blusey, sassy, "Silk Degrees" personna on later albums that cemented his Armani-suited Guitar-Man image of the mid 70's. But at this stage in his career , Boz -- like Kenny Loggins -- and that whole Doobie Bros crowd, indulged in a roots-rock-country hybred that was the stuff of the period. And Boz pulls it off with aplomb and clarity. First of all, the songs are terrific. The arrangements are spare and effecting, and Wenner's lack of production skill works for this music. "I'll Be Long Gone" is still one of my favorite songs in the Boz Scaggs catalogue. In fact, if you pick up a copy of the rock film "Fillmore" (about the closing of the Fillmore West), you can see him perform the song . The very country-ish "Another Day (Another Letter)" , and the haunting "Finding Her" (on which guitar legend Duane Allman plays) are both solid. The centerpiece of the record however, is the now-famous "Loan Me A Dime" ... the epic blues cut that yields standing ovations when Boz does it in his live show. This may not be my favorite Boz album ... But it might be my second favorite ... One thing for certain, if you like the artist, and you like much of what you've heard over the years, then you will be absolutely pleased with this classic album