Out Of The Blues Boz Scaggs

• 1 Rock And Stick 04:50
• 2 I’ve Just Got To Forget You 02:58
• 3 I’ve Just Got To Know 04:11
• 4 Radiator 110 04:09
• 5 Little Miss Night And Day 05:20
• 6 On The Beach 06:33
• 7 Down In Virginia 03:24
• 8 Those Lies 04:32
• 9 The Feeling Is Gone 03:36
• Total Runtime 39:33

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Boz Scaggs will release a new studio album, Out of the Blues, on July 27, via Concord Records. The nine-track collection features covers of select vintage blues and R&B songs, as well as four tunes penned by Scagg’s longtime friend, Jack Walroth.

In the midst of a musical renaissance, the versatile singer/songwriter/guitarist has created a highly personal, soulful modern repertoire. Born in Ohio, raised in Texas and Oklahoma, Scaggs reconnected with his earliest musical and regional influences. The self produced Out of the Blues features Scaggs applying his iconic voice and gritty guitar skills to a set of vintage classics by such blues greats as Bobby “Blue” Bland, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam, Neil Young, and his friend and songwriter, Jack Walroth.

Scaggs co-produced Out of the Blues and contributed rhythm guitar, bass and lead vocals to the album. Other musicians featured on the album are guitarists Doyle Bramhall II, Ray Parker Jr, and Charlie Sexton, bassist Willie Weeks, drummer Jim Keltner, and keyboardist Jim Cox, and Walroth adds harmonica to a few of the tunes.

Boz considers Out of the Blues the third in a trilogy of albums, following Memphis and 2015’s A Fool To Care—celebrating the music that first influenced and inspired him.

“Over the last several years while this trilogy has come together I’ve been accumulating other music,” he said. “I’ve written more songs on my own. I have a little backlog of things I think I’ll probably include in the next one or two projects,” said Scaggs.

Boz Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in 1967, performing on the albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career in 1968. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues, and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential ’70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and Silk Degrees. The latter release became a massive commercial breakthrough, reaching Number Two and remaining on the album charts for 115 weeks. It spawned three Top 40 hit singles: “It’s Over,” “Lido Shuffle” and the Grammy-winning “Lowdown.” Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, and such hit singles as “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” “Jo Jo” and “Look What You’ve Done to Me.”

Boz Scaggs, vocals, guitar
Doyle Bramhall II, guitar
Ray Parker Jr, guitar
Charlie Sexton, guitar
Willie Weeks, bass
Jim Keltner, drums
Jim Cox, keyboards
Jack Walroth, harmonica, percussion

Boz Scaggs
Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R&B and early rock 'n' roll. While attending school in Dallas, he played in local combos. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, WI and Austin, TX, Scaggs spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm where he recorded the album Boz.

Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in San Francisco, performing on that group's albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career with 1968's seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential '70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. The latter release became a massive commercial breakthrough, reaching Number Two and remaining on the album charts for 115 weeks. It spawned three Top 40 hit singles: "It's Over," "Lido Shuffle" and the Grammy-winning "Lowdown." Subsequently, "We're All Alone” from that same album, would become a #1 single for Rita Coolidge. Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, and such hit singles as "Breakdown Dead Ahead," "Jo Jo" and "Look What You've Done to Me."

Despite his '70s successes, Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the music-biz spotlight, traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim's, He returned to the studio after an 8-year hiatus and released, Other Roads, Some Change, Dig, the Grammy-nominated Come on Home, the unplugged Fade Into Light, the in-concert retrospective Greatest Hits Live as well as a stint touring with Donald Fagen’s New York Rock & Soul Review; all while continuing to maintain a loyal audience in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Japan. A pair of albums of jazz standards, But Beautiful and Speak Low, the latter topping the Billboard Jazz chart, demonstrated Scaggs' stylistic mastery, as did the Southern-flavored Memphis and the rhythm & bluesy A Fool to Care.

"Music has been a constant companion and I'm feeling more free with it than ever," Scaggs comments. "I feel like I've found my voice through all these years, and I've gotten closer to where I want to be with my approach."

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