Slow Dancer (2023 Remaster) Boz Scaggs

• 1 You Make It So Hard (To Say No) - 2023 Remaster 03:33
• 2 Slow Dancer (2023 Remaster) 03:13
• 3 Angel Lady (Come Just In Time) - 2023 Remaster 03:26
• 4 There Is Someone Else (2023 Remaster) 04:41
• 5 Hercules (2023 Remaster) 04:01
• 6 Pain of Love (2023 Remaster) 03:08
• 7 Sail On White Moonx (2023 Remaster) 03:11
• 8 Let It Happen (2023 Remaster) 03:15
• 9 I Got Your Number (2023 Remaster) 03:47
• 10 Take It For Granted (2023 Remaster) 04:20
• Total Runtime 36:35

Info for Slow Dancer (2023 Remaster)

"Slow Dancer" is the sixth album by Boz Scaggs, originally released by Columbia in 1974. It was produced by former Motowner Johnny Bristol of "Hang On In There Baby" fame.

"Featuring his would-be-soulman sound, Slow Dancer finds Boz Scaggs straddling the apparently fine line between Van Morrison and Isaac Hayes. While Silk Degrees is often touted as Scaggs' best '70s album -- based largely upon the chart success of "Lowdown" -- Slow Dancer features just as many catchy melodic tunes that meld a kind of boogie pub rock with an organic urban soul. Produced by Motown regular Johnny Bristol, Scaggs delivers some of his best performances on the Bristol-penned track "Pain of Love" and the Neil Young meets Marvin Gaye ballad "Sail on White Moon." (Matt Collar, AMG)

Boz Scaggs, vocals, guitar
David Cohen, guitar
David T. Walker, guitar
Dennis Coffey, guitar
Greg Poree, guitar
Jay Graydon, guitar
Wah Wah Watson, guitar
Red Rhodes, guitar
Clarence McDonald, keyboards
Jerry Peters, keyboards
Joe Sample, keyboards
Mike Melvoin, keyboards
Russell Turner, keyboards
James Jamerson, bass
Jim Hughart, bass
Ernie Watts, saxophone
Fred Jackson, saxophone
John Kelson, saxophone
George Bohanon, trombone
Lon Norman, trombone
Chuck Findley, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jack H. Laubach, trumpet, flugelhorn
Paul Hubinon, trumpet, flugelhorn
Warren Roché, trumpet, flugelhorn
Gene Estes, percussion, vibraphone
John Arnold, percussion, vibraphone
Ed Greene, drums
James Gadson, drums
Joe Clayton, congas
King Errison, congas
Carolyn Willis, background vocals
Julia Tillman Waters, background vocals
Lorna Willard, background vocals
Myrna Matthews, background vocals
Pat Henderson, background vocals
H.B. Barnum, string arrangements, conductor

Digitally remastered

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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