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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
Boz Scaggs, who had already recorded the solo album
Boz (Polydor, 1965), was one of the key assetts of the early
Steve Miller Band.
When he parted ways with the man he had accompanied from Texas to San Francisco,
Scaggs launched a career in a more atmospheric and less psychedelic vein with
Boz Scaggs (Atlantic, 1969), that contains his most accomplished piece
ever, the lengthy Loan Me A Dime (Duane Allman on guitar).
Within a few months, Scaggs changed persona, as documented by the
transitional albums
Moments (Columbia, 1971) and And His Band (Columbia, 1972).
Be became a romantic balladeer in the sweet-soul tradition.
My Time (Columbia, 1972), that contains
Dinah Flo and Full-Lock Power Slide, marked the
end of his blues-rock career.
Slow Dancer (Columbia, 1974) announced his mature art of
melancholy, orchestral, funk-soul ballads (I Got Your Number)
and the slick production of Silk Degrees (Columbia, 1976) coined
a new form of elegant pop-soul muzak
(Low Down, What Can I Say, Lido Shuffle).
Down Two Then Left (Columbia, 1977) came out as an inferior copy of that
best-seller album.
Hits (CBS, 1980) is an anthology.
Middle Man (Columbia, 1980), featuring Carlos Santana on guitar,
re-established his commercial credentials with
Breakdown Dead Ahead,
Jojo,
Look What You've Done To Me,
Miss Sun.
And Other Roads (Columbia, 1988) added at least
Heart Of Mine to the repertory.
Having opened the night-club "Slim's" in San Francisco,
Scaggs seemed to retire from the record industry, but instead staged an
impressive comeback with the impeccable
Some Change (Virgin, 1994).
But Beautiful (Gray Cat, 2003) and
Speak Low (2008)
were collections of jazz standards.
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