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Boz Scaggs - 1997 - Anthology

In his liner notes to the double-disc, two-and-a-half-hour Boz Scaggs compilation My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997), Ben Fong-Torres writes, "There are those who, charting Boz's career, identify specific phases: rock and roll with [Steve] Miller; the early solo albums, which were as much country and blues, and pop and jazz, as they were rock; the Slow Dancer/Silk Degrees stage, of Boz as sweet soul singer; the nearly decade-long retrenchment and semi-retirement, and the return to rootsy blues and R&B in Some Change and Come On Home." Fong-Torres goes on to say that this is not an incorrect way to describe Scaggs' career, but that there is more unity than it would imply: "in every phase of his career, he has remained faithful to his musical instincts." Fair enough, and that unity is reflected in the compilation, which shows that, with slight variations, Scaggs has always been interested in what might be called an evolved version of the Chicago blues, augmenting his rock sound with horn charts and prominent female background vocals, all in support of his adenoidal tenor voice. But most people would make a far simpler division in his career, between the early, harder rocking period (1968-1972) and the smooth R&B/disco period (1974-80), when he scored major hits with the singles "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle" and the multi-platinum album Silk Degrees. While including most of his chart singles (the exceptions are the minor hits "Hollywood" and "Cool Running"), the compilation attempts to de-emphasize that distinction, probably because he had much more critical respect in the earlier phase than in the later one. This is accomplished by a striking example of sequencing legerdemain. In a collection that is otherwise roughly chronological, disc one ends by following the Silk Degrees selections recorded in 1975 with "Loan Me a Dime," a 13-minute blues workout from 1969 that prominently features Duane Allman. Aurally, the suggestion is that whatever you may think, Scaggs didn't sell out to disco. It would have been nice if the compilers had trusted his musical instincts as much as the annotator does. That said, the collection is generous and presents most of Scaggs' major recordings across record labels, including tracks recorded for Atlantic, Columbia, Giant, and Virgin.


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   1. (00:03:58) Boz Scaggs - Runnin' Blue
   2. (00:03:30) Boz Scaggs - We Were Always Sweethearts
   3. (00:05:00) Boz Scaggs - Near You
   4. (00:04:03) Boz Scaggs - Painted Bells
   5. (00:03:05) Boz Scaggs - Dinah Flo
   6. (00:04:06) Boz Scaggs - Might Have to Cry
   7. (00:03:35) Boz Scaggs - You Make It So Hard (To Say No)
   8. (00:03:48) Boz Scaggs - I Got Your Number
   9. (00:03:15) Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer
  10. (00:04:04) Boz Scaggs - Hercules
  11. (00:03:01) Boz Scaggs - What Can I Say
  12. (00:02:50) Boz Scaggs - It's Over
  13. (00:05:58) Boz Scaggs - Harbor Lights
  14. (00:05:17) Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
  15. (00:03:44) Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
  16. (00:04:13) Boz Scaggs - We're All Alone
  17. (00:13:04) Boz Scaggs - Loan Me a Dime
  18. (00:04:30) Boz Scaggs - Hard Times
  19. (00:04:05) Boz Scaggs - 1993
  20. (00:05:53) Boz Scaggs - Jojo
  21. (00:04:54) Boz Scaggs - Isn't It Time
  22. (00:05:09) Boz Scaggs - Simone
  23. (00:04:36) Boz Scaggs - Breakdown Dead Ahead
  24. (00:05:32) Boz Scaggs - Miss Sun
  25. (00:05:19) Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me
  26. (00:04:14) Boz Scaggs - Heart Of Mine
  27. (00:04:00) Boz Scaggs - What's Number One?
  28. (00:05:03) Boz Scaggs - Drowning In The Sea Of Love
  29. (00:05:22) Boz Scaggs - Sierra
  30. (00:06:11) Boz Scaggs - Some Change
  31. (00:04:47) Boz Scaggs - As The Years Go Passing By (With Booker T & The M's)
  32. (00:03:01) Boz Scaggs - Just Go
  33. (00:04:03) Boz Scaggs - Goodnight Louise

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