But the doors blew open on Scaggs’s career with the 1976 release of the multiplatinum Silk Degrees. The right album at the right time — and still his best known work — its mixture of a ...

The song was written overnight and became a breakout hit in the summer of '76.

"Some people are genuinely confused, almost angry in a way, at my nonchalance at saying I had other things to do," Scaggs shrugged in a 1994 interview with Mojo. "They say, 'How do you just walk off ...

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 ...

Boz Scaggs calls the trio of albums he has most recently released — beginning with 2013’s “Memphis” — a trilogy. These releases — “Memphis,” 2015’s “A Fool To Care” and his current album, “Out of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1976, Boz Scaggs released a breezy rock song that would eventually become one of the defining road trip anthems of the classic ...

Born William Royce Scaggs, the musician was given the nickname Bosley, which was eventually shortened to Boz, while attending a private school in Dallas during the 1950s. At the same school, Scaggs ...

From his earliest records and concerts to his most recent discs and tours with buddies Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen as the Dukes of September, Boz Scaggs has always shown a reverence for music ...