Boz Scaggs - C/D?

yeah he could get lulled by the waterbed lushness early on, but then again he could do this, which I once blogged about:
"Somebody load me a dime/So I can call my old-time/Used-to-be." Right, so Boz Scaggs sings Lowell Fulson's "Loan Me A Dime," while rising and falling in the well-fed bosom of blues orchestration. This is from the late 60s, more or less the same era as what I (with little exposure) regarded as the fat times of his fulsome Marin County homegrown elevator easy listening hippie make-out music (as I may have previously described it in terminalzine prose). But as this song begins, his almost halting eloquence always accosts me, has me floating on the sidewalk several minutes later, when Duane Allman shows up, and the whole squadron strides forth, from the pathos of the blues into its boldness, with no disturbance of the (say it) vibe. Somebody loans him a dime, he knows now he can fix things up with his baby, or maybe he buys a cup of coffee (then also a dime, in some quarters). Anyway, he's energized, but not overstating his case, at least not before the phone call, or whatever the next pitch might be. No big resolution of the story arc, but he's resolved, and going somewhere.

middle man kicks. listened to it a lot while writing a big stupid thing about how sad "we're all alone" is

i heard "what can i say" in the wild recently and man it just purely rules

What does John Darnelle mean when he says upthread, "As far as I'm concerned Silk Degrees is the Loveless of its day" ? (I've never heard Loveless)

a classic album that you can play over and over and always find something new in the experience? an album that seems, on the surface, to be similar to many other things, but for which in reality there is no substitute? i don't know. this was the only LP of my mom's that i didn't "get" as a kid (~8-10 years old, when we still had the turntable set up) ... i would play beatles, springsteen, bee gees, elton john etc. to death but this album seemed too adult for my sensibilities. the result of this is that as an adult, the album retains a certain sophisticated glamor. i think 2013 is the year to re-listen to it because a lot of these smooth rock sounds are coming back, or have started to come back over the past few years.

(my last post in response to iago)

they've BEEN back.

but welcome! And play "We're All Alone" and "Harbor Lights" loudly.

right on. do you like destroyer's album Kaputt, alfred? that was the album that made me look again at smooth rock '70s stuff.

Yep.

one of my favorite albums of all time. perfect in almost every way except, as Xgau likes to harp on, sometimes the lyrics are lazy as hell.

/It's all about "Loan Me A Dime". Classic/

Incredibly accurate statement.

one more for the road

two years ago i had a really rewarding experience just listening to "we're all alone" on repeat and trying to pull together a piece about it. no idea how i feel about that piece at this point but it was about three days of deep, meditative, mentally engaging work that of course i wouldn't have experienced without the stark landscape of that song

I'm really itching to whip out a version of Lido Shuffle next time I go to a karaoke bar

Brad! Can you post it?

please post!!

http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/14984902531/boz-scaggs-were-all-alone-final-track-from

should mention that the penultimate revelation in that piece about boz missing from the back cover art is indebted and deployed similarly to how aero described it in a video from a few years ago, which convinced me to buy the record

that's a terrific read, Brad.

thank you!

yeah great stuff, thank you so much for sharing!

anyone heard A Fool to Care?

it's pretty good!

the "full of fire" cover especially

he's been solid for a while though. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaQ8H729kBE

it's good, not as good as Fade Into Light though which had some utterly breathtaking classics on it

gotta say though this album is hitting the spot tonight, thanks for waking up the thread Alfred

my older son wanted me to play my LP of Other Roads, which I didn't remember as being too terrific, but wow -- really solid. wasn't ready for it when I bought it back around '98/'99. first song has a Jim Carrol cowrite credit, but it's the third song's credits that gave me a big smile: a Bobby Caldwell cowrite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0OMzKGYLpo

the other bobby caldwell cowrite on this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQT3rb7h8JY

my jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO26sQ5UkiU

Simone is sweet, it popped up on my spotify playlist last night

that Paich synthscape in the middle is a thing of beauty

His new album is really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmj6khcLM2Y

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3a/81/53/3a8153d87e29d1cbc47df95598a08a23--suitcases-new-girl.jpg

reminds me of molly shannon on seinfeld. "what's wrong with her arms? they just hang like salamis."

I've never heard anyone say that about Boz Scaggs before

apparently Boz can't lift his hands above his shoulders, though sometimes he tries

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/dc/25/60dc253d55149627e083f0cda404eb96--music-music-music-lyrics.jpg

The shoulder pads in the suit he wore on the cover of Hits probably fucked him up.

Nice song, that new one!

even if he sucked -- which he very much doesn't -- his name is boz scaggs

Is it short for Boris?

William Royce

boz scaggs

respect

What do you need? These songs.

Nice! I liked a few recent ones, can’t remember what Xgau said.

boz scaggs

one of my hobbyhorses is that his 2004-ish iirc Fade Into Light is massively underrated, esp.the title song, one of his best.

_boz scaggs_

how do we feel about some change? i think it’s rather good. good tunes, diverse sounds, his voice sounds really cool. thumbs up. “sierra” has gotta be up there with the top boz ballads.