Boz Scaggs

This won the Grammy for Best R&B Song of 1976, making Scaggs the first white artist to win the award. In this YouTube interview, guitarist Louie Shelton discusses the recording of "Lowdown": www.youtube.com -- Did you know that William Royce Scaggs began his career playing guitar and providing vocals for The Steve Miller Band? Here's a biography from the Texas Cultural Trust: txculturaltrust.org

Scaggs wrote this song with the keyboard player David Paich, who would later form the band Toto and write many of their hits. This song won the Grammy for Best R&B Song of 1976. www.bozscaggs.com

Scaggs wrote this song with the keyboard player David Paich, who would later form the band Toto and write many of their hits. This song won the Grammy for Best R&B Song of 1976. www.bozscaggs.com

Scaggs wrote this song with the keyboard player David Paich, who would later form the band Toto and write many of their hits. This song won the Grammy for Best R&B Song of 1976. www.bozscaggs.com

Scaggs wrote this song with the keyboard player David Paich, who would later form the band Toto and write many of their hits. This won the Grammy for Best R&B Song of 1976, making Scaggs the first white artist to win the award . -- Did you know that William Royce Scaggs began his career playing guitar and providing vocals for The Steve Miller Band? Here's a biography from the Texas Cultural Trust: txculturaltrust.org

Happy b-day Boz!

1976 disco crossover smash -- kexp.org "Silk Degrees" brought together a dream team of session musicians who would go on to play roles in yacht rock hits for years to come, including David Paich, David Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro -- future founders of Toto Have you ever noticed that "Silk Degrees" can be found in every vinyl thrift bin EVER? "In praise of the one album you can always find in the used vinyl bin": tinyurl.com

Boz Scaggs' career is a study in patience and perseverance. He issued his first solo album in 1965 (simply titled Boz), and spent the later part of the decade as a hired hand with the Steve Miller Band, supplying vocals and guitar on their first two psychedelic rock albums. His breakthrough came in 1976 with his seventh solo album, Silk Degrees. With the right combination of sophistication and soul, it sold over 5 million copies thanks to the hits "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle." Scags collaborated with Toto members David Paich (keyboardist), Jeff Porcaro (drummer), and David Hungate (bassist) on 'Silk Degrees'. Scaggs discusses "Lowdown": David Paich is my favorite all-time collaborator. He and I wrote "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle" and other hits, and collaborated on this album Dig, which I had mentioned. That was the first song that I wrote with those Toto guys, with David Paich in particular. When we first met, the producer suggested we try to write a song or two together. We took off for a weekend to this getaway outside of LA where there was a piano and stayed up all night banging around ideas. We hit on "Lowdown," and then we brought it back to the band and recorded it. We were just thrilled with that one. That was the first song that we attempted, and it had a magic to it. Read more here: bit.ly youtu.be

Jay Dee sampled this one for 2001's "Shake It Down." -- Hailing from Plano, Texas, Boz Scaggs is a Grammy-winning, chart-topping blues, jazz, and R&B singer/songwriter and performer. He served as guitarist and occasional lead singer with the Steve Miller Band in the 1960s, and in the '70s gained fame with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States, including the hits "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown" from the critically acclaimed multi-platinum proto-disco breakthrough album Silk Degrees (1976), which peaked at number two in the Top 200.: www.allmusic.com