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The Accidental Smash: How Boz Scaggs’ ‘Lowdown’ Seduced a Cleveland DJ and Won a Grammy
The Accidental Smash: How Boz Scaggs’ “Lowdown” Seduced a Cleveland DJ and Won a Grammy Some time in the summer of 1976, a disc jockey at an R&B station in Cleveland did something DJs almost never do anymore: he played an album cut. Not a single — just a track he liked, lifted straight off…
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Boz Scaggs: The Heart Behind the Hits — Love, Loss, Wine, and Fire
Boz Scaggs sings like a man who has lived — because he has. Behind the silky voice and the immaculate suits is a life marked by the things that mark all of us: marriages that didn’t last and one that did, children who found their way and one who didn’t, a vineyard built with love…
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Silk Degrees: How Boz Scaggs and a Band of Unknown Kids Made the Smoothest Album of 1976
In the fall of 1975, Boz Scaggs was a 31-year-old singer with a beautiful voice, a Texas drawl, and a career going nowhere. He had been in the Steve Miller Band. He had made a series of critically admired solo albums that hardly anyone bought. His label, Columbia, was losing patience. One more flop and…
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The Untold Story of Boz Scaggs: Ten Years an Overnight Sensation
When “Silk Degrees” exploded in 1976 — five million copies, four hit singles, a Grammy — America met what looked like a brand-new star: a silky-voiced Texan in a white suit, crooning about the lowdown and the lido shuffle. What nobody realized was that Boz Scaggs had already been at it for more than a…