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 breezy hit became one of classic rock’s defining driving songs after emerging from a legendary musical collaboration.

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 ...

For a guy who has one of the most distinctive singing voices in the recent history of modern music, Michael McDonald sounds oddly plain over the phone. “Jim? This is Mike.” The publicist had given me ...

This is the fourth week of the CC (Cincinnati.com) Writer music blog, so it seems like a good time to explain a bit about it. It’s taken more than 65 years, but I have landed my dream job (albeit ...

"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 ...

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 ...