The Essential Boz Scaggs

2013 compilation album by Boz Scaggs

The Essential Boz Scaggs

Compilation album by

Boz Scaggs

Released| October 29, 2013
Recorded| 1969-2013
Genre|

* Rock
* blues
* rhythm and blues
* pop

Length| 2:35:49
Label|

* Columbia
* Legacy

Producer|

* Jann Wenner
* Glyn Johns
* Boz Scaggs
* Roy Halee
* Johnny Bristol
* Joe Wissert
* Bill Schnee
* Stewart Levine
* David Williams
* Ricky Fataar
* David Paich
* Danny Kortchmar
* Steve Jordan

Boz Scaggs chronology
| Memphis
(2013)  | The Essential Boz Scaggs
(2013)  | A Fool to Care
(2015)

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The Essential Boz Scaggs is a compilation album by American musician and songwriter Boz Scaggs, released in 2013.[1] The album includes songs from his studio albums from 1969 to 2013.[2]

## Reception[edit]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [3]
PopMatters| 7/10[4]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic considered the album to be superior to the 1997 compilation My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology and that the record was "something close to a truly essential Boz Scaggs".[3]

## Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Album| Length

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1.| "I'll Be Long Gone"|  | Boz Scaggs| 4:04
2.| "Loan Me a Dime"| Fenton Robinson| Boz Scaggs| 13:04
3.| "Runnin' Blue"| Scaggs, Pat O'Hara| Boz Scaggs & Band| 3:58
4.| "We Were Always Sweethearts"|  | Moments| 3:30
5.| "Painted Bells"|  | Moments| 4:03
6.| "Near You"|  | Moments| 5:00
7.| "Dinah Flo"|  | My Time| 3:05
8.| "Might Have to Cry"|  | My Time| 4:05
9.| "You Make It So Hard (To Say No)"|  | Slow Dancer| 3:34
10.| "Slow Dancer"| Scaggs, George Daly| Slow Dancer| 3:15
11.| "What Can I Say"| Scaggs, David Paich| Silk Degrees| 3:01
12.| "It's Over"| Scaggs, Paich| Silk Degrees| 2:52
13.| "Harbor Lights"|  | Silk Degrees| 5:58
14.| "Lowdown"| Scaggs, Paich| Silk Degrees| 5:18
15.| "Lido Shuffle"| Scaggs, Paich| Silk Degrees| 3:43
16.| "We're All Alone"|  | Silk Degrees| 4:14
17.| "Hard Times"|  | Down Two Then Left| 4:30
Total length:| 1:17:15

Disc two

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Album| Length

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1.| "Jojo"| Scaggs, David Foster, David Lasley| Middle Man| 5:55
2.| "Isn't It Time"|  | Middle Man| 4:55
3.| "Simone"| Scaggs, Foster| Middle Man| 5:10
4.| "Breakdown Dead Ahead"| Scaggs, Foster| Middle Man| 4:37
5.| "Miss Sun"| Paich| Hits!| 5:32
6.| "Look What You've Done to Me"| Scaggs, Foster| Hits!| 5:18
7.| "Heart of Mine"| Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff| Other Roads| 4:14
8.| "Some Change"|  | Some Change| 6:12
9.| "Sierra"|  | Some Change| 3:44
10.| "As the Years Go Passing By" (Live)| Don Robey| My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology| 4:46
11.| "It All Went Down the Drain"| Earl King| Come On Home| 5:34
12.| "Miss Riddle"| Scaggs, Paich, Michael Rodriguez| Dig| 6:28
13.| "I Just Go"|  | Dig| 3:37
14.| "Thanks to You"| Scaggs, Paich| Dig| 4:50
15.| "Gone Baby Gone"|  | Memphis| 3:35
Total length:| 1:18:33

## Personnel[edit]

* Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
* Booker T & The MG's \- feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
* Fred Tackett – guitar
* Louis Shelton – guitar
* David Hungate – bass
* Jeff Porcaro — drums
* David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
* Vincent DeRosa – horns
* Jim Horn – horns
* Paul Hubinon – horns
* Dick Hyde – horns
* Plas Johnson – horns
* Tom Scott – horns
* Bud Shank – horns

## Release history[edit]

Country  | Date  | Label  | Format  | Catalog

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United States  | 2013  | Columbia Records, Legacy Records[5] | CD, digital download | 88883741212 / 88883741212

## References[edit]

1. ^ Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs at iTunes Music Australia
2. ^ Boz Scaggs' Collection, The Essential Boz Scaggs, Tracks Hitmaking Career Over Course Of Five Decades at Prnewswire
3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs". AllMusic.
4. ^ Boz Scaggs: The Essential Boz Scaggs at Pop Matters
5. ^ Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs at Discogs

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Boz Scaggs

Studio albums|

* Boz (1965)
* Boz Scaggs (1969)
* Moments (1971)
* Boz Scaggs & Band (1971)
* My Time (1972)
* Slow Dancer (1974)
* Silk Degrees (1976)
* Down Two Then Left (1977)
* Middle Man (1980)
* Other Roads (1988)
* Some Change (1994)
* Fade into Light (1996)
* Come On Home (1997)
* Dig (2001)
* But Beautiful (2003)
* Memphis (2013)
* A Fool to Care (2015)
* Out of the Blues (2018)

Live albums|

* Greatest Hits Live (2004)

Compilations|

* Hits! (1980)
* My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology (1997)
* The Essential Boz Scaggs (2013)

Singles|

* "Lowdown"
* "Lido Shuffle"
* "Breakdown Dead Ahead"
* "Jojo"
* "Look What You've Done to Me"
* "Miss Sun"

See also|

* Steve Miller Band
* The Dukes of September

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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