Fifty years ago, a handful of milestone albums set the tone for rock of the following decade. Crosby, Stills & Nash initiated a fresh approach to harmonies and looser group names; the eponymous debut ...

Have you heard the lowdown on Boz Scaggs? The soulful singer, songwriter and guitarist celebrated 80th birthday on June 8, 2024. Scaggs enjoyed a run of successful hits during the mid-to-late 1970s ...

Boz Scaggs may be known for his 1976 hit “Lowdown,” but the former Steve Miller band member was already building a lengthy catalog of songs by the late ’60s, a collection of songs that would take him ...

In 1968, a 24-year-old guitar player stepped away from a promising career as part of the Steve Miller Band and traveled to Sheffield, Alabama, to make a landmark recording. Jann Wenner, founder of ...

Boz Scaggs has been producing his own brand of R&B-flavored rock 'n' roll for almost fifty years. Though he recorded an album in 1965 called Boz (Polydor Records), his career didn't take off until he ...

Most people of a certain age recall Boz Scaggs for his 1976 breakthrough album, Silk Degrees. With hits like "Georgia," "Lido Shuffle" and — the number three hit — "Lowdown," it was a must-own album ...

Just hearing the name Boz Scaggs evokes a feeling. It's a hip, laid back, soulful, approachable feeling. It's a southern thing. But it's a San Francisco thing too. He is, as his most recent record ...

After a 40-year career that has frequently taken forays into blues, jazz and rhythm and blues, this time around Boz Scaggs is focusing on the hits — sort of. Scaggs , currently on tour with another ...

One of the more popular rock singers to emerge from the Bay Area in the late '60s, Boz Scaggs has cultivated a long and fruitful career built around his versatile tenor voice and nuanced songwriting.