Boz Scaggs – My Time (1972/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Boz Scaggs – My Time (1972/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:54 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Blues Rock, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SMCMG

My Time is the fifth album by Boz Scaggs, released by Columbia Records in September 1972. “Dinah Flo” was the only single released from the album.

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Boz Scaggs – Middle Man (2023 Remaster) (1980/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Boz Scaggs – Middle Man (2023 Remaster) (1980/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Middle Man is the ninth studio album by Boz Scaggs released by Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs hired members of the band Toto as session musicians and shared songwriting credits with them, returning to the commercial, soul-influenced rock of Silk Degrees (1976).

The album reached No. 8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100: “Breakdown Dead Ahead” at No. 15 and “Jojo” at No. 17.

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Boz Scaggs – Slow Dancer (2023 Remaster) (1974/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Boz Scaggs – Slow Dancer (2023 Remaster) (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

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Boz Scaggs – Silk Degrees (2023 Remaster) (1976/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Boz Scaggs – Silk Degrees (2023 Remaster) (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:25 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Blues Rock, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Silk Degrees is the seventh solo album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in February 1976. The album peaked at No. 2 and spent 115 weeks on the Billboard 200. It has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and remains Scaggs’s best selling album.

Silk Degrees spawned four singles. “It’s Over” (No. 38), “Lowdown” (No. 3) and “Lido Shuffle” (No. 11) made the Top 40, while “What Can I Say” peaked at No. 42.

The front cover photograph was by Moshe Brakha of Scaggs at Casino Point, Avalon, California.

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Boz Scaggs – Some Change (1994/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Boz Scaggs – Some Change (1994/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:53 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin Records

When Boz Scaggs signed with Virgin Records after spending at least 17 years with Columbia, listeners had no idea what to expect. Some Change proved to be a pleasant surprise. Instead of going out of his way to be as slick and commercial as possible or offering something contrived and robotic, the singer-turned-restaurant-owner let his better instincts win out and delivered a very honest and natural-sounding collection of pop, pop/rock, and soul-influenced pop. On songs ranging from the smooth “I’ll Be the One” (which has a slightly Average White Band-ish appeal) and the haunting “Sierra” to the ominous “Follow That Man,” there’s no question that Scaggs is coming from the heart. Arguably, Some Change is his best album since 1976’s Silk Degrees. – Alex Henderson
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Boz Scaggs – Out Of The Blues (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boz Scaggs – Out Of The Blues (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:34 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Records

The self-produced Out Of The Blues finds national treasure Boz Scaggs applying his iconic voice and gritty guitar skills to a set of vintage classics as well as four originals. For the occasion, the legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist assembled a star-studded studio band including such prestigious players as guitarists Doyle Bramhall II, Ray Parker Jr. and Charlie Sexton, bassist Willie Weeks, drummer Jim Keltner and keyboardist Jim Cox, as well as longtime friend Jack Walroth on guitar, harmonica and percussion.
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Boz Scaggs – Come On Home (1997/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boz Scaggs – Come On Home (1997/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:39 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin

On this prime collection of R&B and blues songs and influences from Boz Scaggs’ youth – and four new yet classic-sounding self-penned originals – the blue-eyed soulman eschews the slick production values of his pop chart-toppers such as “Lido” and “Lowdown,” instead getting way down and his hands dirty with the honest blood, sweat, and tears of the real down-home blues. Packing in tow drummer Jim Keltner, guitarist Fred Tackett (from Little Feat), and slow-burning, soulful horn arrangements by Willie Mitchell, one of the founding fathers of Memphis soul (and composer of Come On Home’s title track), Scaggs’ covers of songs originally composed and performed by such legends as Jimmy Reed (“Found Love”), T-Bone Walker (the legendary “T-Bone Shuffle”), Sonny Boy Williamson (“Early in the Morning”) and Bobby “Blue” Bland (the thunderous “Ask Me ‘Bout Nothing (But the Blues)”), along with “It All Went Down the Drain” (Earl King), and the smoldering “Your Good Thing (Is About to End)” (David Porter with Isaac Hayes), are absolutely impossible to resist. Come On Home is a genuine musical treasure.
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Boz Scaggs – A Fool To Care (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boz Scaggs – A Fool To Care (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:16 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Blues, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 429 Records

Boz Scaggs follows up the chart-topping and critically acclaimed, Memphis, (his highest charting record since the legendary Silk Degrees), with A Fool to Care. Produced by Steve Jordan and boasting several new Boz originals, as well as a diverse range of R&B/Soul treasures, A Fool to Care also features duets with guests Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams.
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Boz Scaggs – Boz Scaggs (1969) [Audio Fidelity 2013] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Boz Scaggs – Boz Scaggs (1969) [Audio Fidelity 2013]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:38 minutes | Scans included | 1,36 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 923 MB
Mastered by Kevin Gray | Audio Fidelity # AFZ-168

Departing from the Steve Miller Band after a two-album stint, Boz Scaggs found himself on his own but not without support. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, his friend, helped him sign with Atlantic Records and the label had him set up shop in Muscle Shoals, recording his debut album with that legendary set of studio musicians, known for their down-and-dirty backing work for Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, among many other Southern soul legends. The Muscle Shoals rhythm section, occasionally augmented by guitarist Duane Allman, gives this music genuine grit, but this isn’t necessarily a straight-up blue-eyed soul record, even if the opening “I’m Easy” and “I’ll Be Long Gone” are certainly as deeply soulful as anything cut at Muscle Shoals. Even at this early stage Scaggs wasn’t content to stay in one place, and he crafted a kind of Americana fantasia here, also dabbling in country and blues along with the soul and R&B that grounds this record. If the country shuffle “Now You’re Gone” sounds just slightly a shade bit too vaudeville for its own good, it only stands out because the rest of the record is pitch-perfect, from the Jimmie Rodgers cover “Waiting for a Train” and the folky “Look What I Got!” to the extended 11-minute blues workout “Loan Me a Dime,” which functions as much as a showcase for a blazing Duane Allman as it does for Boz. But even with that show-stealing turn, and even with the Muscle Shoals musicians giving this album its muscle and part of its soul, this album is still thoroughly a showcase for Boz Scaggs’ musical vision, which even at this stage is wide and deep. It would grow smoother and more assured over the years, but the slight bit of raggedness suits the funky, down-home performances and helps make this not only a great debut, but also an enduring blue-eyed soul masterpiece.

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