William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, releasing Other Roads and later joining the New York Rock and Soul Revue.

Their family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Plano, Texas (at that time a farm town), just north of Dallas.

After graduation in 1962, the pair later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison together, playing in blues bands like the Ardells and the Fabulous Knight Trains.

He signed up for the Army Reserve and formed a new band, the Wigs with John "Toad" Andrews and Bob Arthur.

[11] He arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, where he recorded his first solo debut album, Boz, in 1965 with the Karusell Grammofon AB label, which failed commercially.

Returning to the US, Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967 after receiving a postcard invitation from Steve Miller to join his band.

It was produced by Jann Wenner (co-founder of the magazine Rolling Stone) and features the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and session guitarist Duane Allman.

Scaggs briefly hooked up with San Francisco Bay Area band Mother Earth in a supporting role on their second album Make a Joyful Noise on guitar and backup vocals.

Seeking a new more soulful direction, Columbia brought in former Motown producer Johnny Bristol for Scaggs' next album, Slow Dancer (1974).

[2] In 1976, using session musicians who later formed the band Toto, he recorded Silk Degrees,[12] with Joe Wissert on producing duties.

1 in a number of other countries, spawning four hit singles: "It's Over", "Lowdown", "What Can I Say", and "Lido Shuffle",[2] as well as the poignant ballad "We're All Alone",[12] which Rita Coolidge (who had performed backing vocals on an earlier Scaggs album) took to the top of the charts in 1977.

"Lowdown" sold over one million copies in the US[13] and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, which was shared by Scaggs and David Paich.

In an interview, Travolta states "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning, I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs.

Scaggs told the audience to save their ticket stubs as he would do a repeat concert on the Friday night, a few days after.

[2] For Down Two Then Left, Scaggs continued working with Toto and additionally Ray Parker Jr, who later created the Ghostbusters theme song in 1984.

[19] In 1992, Scaggs performed at Toto's tribute concert for Jeff Porcaro, along with Don Henley, Donald Fagen, Eddie Van Halen, George Harrison, and Michael McDonald.

In 2008 he released Speak Low, which he described in the liner notes as "a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored."

Two years later he joined Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald for concerts entitled the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue.

In 2015, he released A Fool to Care, a compilation of mostly covers, including "Whispering Pines" with Lucinda Williams, and one original blues composition, "Hell to Pay", performed with Bonnie Raitt.

He lost everything: vineyard, cars, and sentimental objects such as decades worth of legal pads and cocktail napkins with lyrics on them.

Three years later the album was reissued once again, this time as remixed by Tom Perry at Sound City in Los Angeles in October 1977.

Boz Scag Presents Charity Auction for 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Recovery, March 29, 2024-April 14, 2024