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boz scaggs Out of The Blues Tour

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Boz Scaggs Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, Boz 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 in Wisconsin and Texas, Scaggs went overseas and spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Eventually, he settled in Stockholm, where he recorded the album Boz. Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band, performing on that group’s albums Children of the Future and Sailor.

He then launched his solo career in 1968 with the seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records.

Scaggs mined a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with his signature style on ballads with such influential ‘70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man. Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the spotlight, instead traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim’s. He returned to the studio after an eight-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. 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 Southernflavored Memphis and the rhythm and 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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