Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees - 1976 (remaster 2007)

In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the U.S. charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", and "What Can I Say", as well as the MOR standard "We're All Alone", later covered by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli.

Remastered Silk Degrees Album
Feb 27, 2007

By the mid-'70s, Boz Scaggs had amassed a varied body of work, rocking out in the music explosion of San Francisco in the late '60s and laying down some molten blues with Duane Allman and the Muscle Shoales rhythm section before moving ever closer to full-blown soul music on a series of solo albums, culminating with 1974's Slow Dancer. Each of these stylistic moves was impressive in its own right, but Scaggs had yet to put it all together into a coherent whole. That changed with 1976's Silk Degrees. Working with a crack team of L.A. studio players including a rhythm section with drummer Jeff Porcaro, keyboards/arranger David Paich, bassist David Ungate and guitarists Louie Shelton and Fred Tackett, an inspired Scaggs wrote songs and sang with newfound power and subtlety. After its release, Silk Degrees remained on the Billboard album charts for 115 weeks, posting three chart-topping singles in the process of becoming one of the most memorable and beloved albums of the 1970s.

This remastered expanded edition has been remastered for superior sound and now includes three live, previously unreleased bonus tracks. These are the only available 1970s live tracks from Scaggs' career. Boz was completely involved in all stages of the album's production including the mixing and mastering. The booklet includes liner notes from long-time music journalist Bud Scoppa and from Boz himself.

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Tracklist:

Tracks 1-10 recorded September 1975, Los Angeles

1. What Can I Say
2. Georgia
3. Jump Street
4. What Do You Want The Girl To Do
5. Harbor Lights
6. Lowdown
7. It's Over
8. Love Me Tomorrow
9. Lido Shuffle
10. We're All Alone

Tracks 11-10 recorded at Greek Theater, Los Angeles, August 15, 1976:

11. What Can I Say - Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track
12. Jump Street - Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track
13. It's Over - Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track

Track 1-10 (p) 1976 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAIMENT / Tracks 11-13 (p) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAIMENTRecorded

Personnel:

Boz Scaggs - vocals, guitar, background vocals
David Paich - keyboards
Jeff Porcaro - drums
David Hungate - bass
Fred Tackett - guitar
Louie Shelton - guitar

Producer by Joe Wissert

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