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Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs Audio CD

A fair review of the Boz Scaggs "Boz Scaggs" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Boz Scaggs reviews here, or go back to the Boz Scaggs tabs.

Boz Scaggs Band: Boz Scaggs
Title: Boz Scaggs
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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

This is okay, but not Boz's best...
But I can state that this "audiophile" LP recording sounds no better than other LPs of various ages. I heard this LP "back in the day" but no longer have that copy. The disc does have a nice heft and the packaging is deluxe, but the sound quality is not worth the high price.

As regards the music, I am a fan of early Boz Scaggs and do like this LP, though it is a bit schizophrenic: this has everything from country-blues ("Waiting for a Train") to soul-rock ("I'm Easy") to full-on blues ("Loan me a Dime"), and while any track would sound good on the radio or in a mix tape, throwing them all together on one recording makes for a bit of a jumble. Duane Allman's guitar work, particularly on "Loan me a Dime," seems to get many comments, and it's good work, but hey, it's Duane Allman - listen to those old Allman Brothers albums to really hear him in his element.

Much better is Boz's "Slow Dancer" album: on that one, Johnny Bristol's production permeates the whole record with a soulful sound, Boz's voice is richer and fuller, and the songs sound gutsy and emotive rather than slick and polished as on "Silk Degrees" and some of the other later records.

Don't get me wrong - this is a good album, and I'm glad to have it, but it is not Boz's best.


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fyi, Duane Allman plays some tracks here and it is sweet!! the genre? eh, just good music!. this is vintage stuff! if someone does not like good music, don't buy this.


Great CD, but vinyl was transcendent
It's reasonably faithful to the music, but it lacks the transcendent, diaphanous reverie of the original vinyl mix. As noted by other reviewers, the CD is an after-the-fact remix. This tracks are 5-plus, but the mix brings it down to a four. . . plus.

Trivia note: Background vocals by three sweet ladies, one of whom, Donna Thatcher, married Keith Godchaux, then returned to Muscle Shoals in her post-dead career.


wow
Awesome!. I haven't listened to the entire album, but "Loan Me a Dime" is incredible! We're talking about a lengthy and HIGHLY energetic and detailed guitar jam that positively RIPS! After hearing Silk Degrees I had no idea there was music like this on early Boz Scaggs records.


Some things just keep getting better. . . .
. . . like listening to Boz Scaggs, the self named album. I lived in Sacramento back when this album came out. Boz started playing at the State Fair for free to anyone who paid to get in after he left The Steve Miller Band. I was really blessed to have been there in the very beginning. He lived in the Bay area (San Francisco) so Sacramento gigs were often. By the time he started opening for bands like "Delaney & Bonnie and Friends", his future had begun. I have almost everything he did with the Steve Miller Band. It just doesn't get any better than this Boz Scaggs 1st out of the box. Though I felt Silk Degrees was a sell out at the time, it did bring him back into fasion, and there are also some great tunes on this. I was able to finally get the "previously Out of Print" Scagg's album, because of Silk Degrees. If you get a chance, catch him live, something cozy, like The House of Blues, you won't forget it. Just isn't anything much better, but I admit I am biased.


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