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THE ESSENTIAL BOZ SCAGGS



Disc One – Selections: 1. I’ll Be Long Gone (A) • 2. Loan Me A Dime (A) • 3. Runnin’ Blue (C) • 4. We Were Always Sweethearts (B) • 5. Painted Bells (B) • 6. Near You (B) • 7. Dinah Flo (D) • 8. Might Have To Cry (D) • 9. You Make It So Hard (To Say No) (E) • 10. Slow Dancer (E) • 11. What Can I Say (F) • 12. It’s Over (F) • 13. Harbor Lights (F) • 14. Lowdown (F) • 15. Lido Shuffle (F) • 16. We’re All Alone (F) • 17. Hard Times (G).

Disc Two – Selections: 1. JoJo (H) • 2. Isn’t It Time (H) • 3. Simone (H) • 4. Breakdown Dead Ahead (H) • 5. Miss Sun (I) • 6. Look What You’ve Done To Me (I) • 7. Heart Of Mine (J) • 8. Some Change (K) • 9. Sierra (K) • 10. As The Years Go Passing By (with Booker T. & The MG’s) (L) • 11. It All Went Down The Drain (M) • 12. Miss Riddle (N) • 13. I Just Go (N) • 14. Thanks To You (N) • 15. Gone Baby Gone (O).

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Album index:
A – from Boz Scaggs, originally issued 1969
B – from Moments, originally issued March 1971
C – from Boz Scaggs & Band, originally issued November 1971
D – from My Time, originally issued September 1972
E – from Slow Dancer, originally issued March 1974
F – from Silk Degrees, originally issued March 1976
G – from Down Two Then Left, originally issued November 1977
H – from Middle Man, originally issued April 1980
I – from Hits! originally issued November 1980
J – from Other Roads, originally issued May 1988
K – from Some Change, originally issued April 1994
L – from The Best Of The Columbia Records Radio Hour, Volume 2, originally issued 1996
M – from Come On Home, originally issued April 1997
N – from Dig, originally issued September 2001
O – from Memphis, originally issued March 2013

oddly enough, nothing from Fade Into Light -
either the original Japanese OR domestic editions.
i love and admire his two jazz outings,
but i understand not including material from either of those.

no rarities.

but, a pretty good representation of his career nonetheless.

This would be a good time to finally release the 1965 album "Boz" on CD. As far as I know, it is only available on very pricey vinyl, and was only a Dutch(?) release when it came out. Hey, we got Nilsson's Flash Harry and the promise of the first 2 Steve Miller Band albums on CD, so one can dream, no?

This has a similar track listing to his earlier 2-CD anthology, My Time, although this one seems to follow stricter chronology. The earlier set was mostly chronological but curiously put 1969's "Loan Me A Dime" at the end of the first CD, after tracks from his 1975 Silk Degrees album.

Are these before 'Children of the Future' when they were known as the Steve Miller Blues Band?

Very interesting - any more information on those?

i have the feeling we are talking about "rock love" and "journey form eden" form steve miller. those are the 2 that have never been on CD.

I'll get this as I am lite on Boz Scaggs.

john,

try to get his whole catalog, you will not regret it.

you can more than likely get them cheap in the used bins.

renny

P.S. Another timely plug for Greatest Hits Live, a superb concert recording issued in 2004. Available as a 2-CD set and a DVD.



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That's what came to mind for me as well.....

Of course who knows if we will see those titles 11/4 as imports...still showing that date at Amazon UK, but no availability in US...

I think My Time is the better choice for an anthology, as I'm not big into his more recent work and prefer more from "Down Two Then Left", which is a killer, under appreciated album IMO.

I also really like "Down Two...". It wasn't as immediate as "Silk Degrees", but it grew on me.

The great Down Two Then Left single "Hollywood" always gets overlooked.

I think, on the whole, it's better.

IMHO, scaggs' best album is "dig".

and it is not on spotify

Loved that album! A highlight for me is "Get on the Natch", because it sounds unlike any other song by Boz. It sounds more like something Don Henley would do.

I agree! This is a superb concert. The performance and sound is fantastic. It's about the best sounding concert DVD I own. When I watch the performance in such a formal setting, I always laugh because the people seem so stiff, considering some of the funkier songs.

Still waiting for a legitimate release of the classic Radio City Music Hall gig in 1980. What a killer band and set of tunes.
This was originally a King Biscuit Flower Hour (I believe) and should have been released years ago. I recorded the original
broadcast off FM to cassette but my tape player was experiencing some weird drop-outs intermittently. Some of it sounds great,
some doesn't. I've heard a Japanese boot that didn't sound as good as the best parts of my copy. The KBFH people have to have the original source material. It must be another case of the artist not releasing the rights. What else could be holding it up?

These Essential sets usually don't have rarities that I can think of, but most are decent collections for those interested in those artists.