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Free Music Notes for Boz Scaggs
Free Music Review: What about "I'm Easy"?
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, Loan Me A Dime is fine fine fine...Long Gone, well, every cut is 100% solid take-you-away music for the discriminating ear. I saw Boz do "I'm Easy" in Fremont and he was The Sexiest Man of The Year long before People Magazine started saying who was who. Thanks, Boz. I still think about it, uh, often. ;0)Free Music Review: Boz Plays the Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
A Bit John Hammond,Eric Burdon and Paul Butterfield (better solo work) is what Boz came out with his first lp. With help from the Muscle Shoals Musicians, plus barry Beckett, Duane Allman ,Boz put out an excellent lp/cd of blues and r&B . Some of the blues are jams like"Loan Me A Dime" (which alone is worth the price of the cd kinda like a Muddy Waters meets Paul Butterfield blues band .Think of the song East/West and you have an idea of what's happening here add Duane Allman on lead guitar and you get a fuller picture. Some of the songs are country blues Waiting for a Train, think of John Hammond here.The rest of the cd has more of an Eric Burdon post Animals post War sound. All in all not a lemon to be found. One great and highly overlooked cd by Boz. There is no Lido Shuffle or anything that comes close to that period of Boz which I also like ,I just would like to see what would have happened if he stuck with the blues. He has a great voice and is an underappreciated guitarist. He was Steve Miller's oringinal lead guitarist.Free Music Review: A classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I have this album on vinyl, bootleg 8 Track, have copied it onto countless cassettes and now I have 2 CDs. In fact the 1st vinyl LP I had literally wore out, so I bought another one. This is one of the best "unknown" albums that I can think of. "Loan Me A Dime" still brings a tear to my eye every single time I play it. I was lucky enough to actually see Boz Scaggs perform "Dime" back in the 70's. The entire album is just so classy and well performed. Duane Allman and that fat horn section are completely solid. It is like the planets aligned just for a special moment. I especially like the version of "I'll Be Long Gone" which is sad, but sweet. (Cold Blood does a nice version of this song too). Every track worthwhile. I cannot reccomend this enough to fans of early classic rock.Free Music Review: Great album....but not the original mix
Hit: 5 Stars
This is actually Boz' SECOND ALBUM...He recorded an accustic album in Stockholm in 1965!!This is a classic album, recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and was originally Produced by Jann Werner. Issued 1969, it sold poorly and in 1977, somebody at Atlantic had the bright idea of completely remixed the original album (it was done in Los Angeles), bringing up Duane Allman's guitar and drowning other aspects of the original mix. On "Finding Her", for example, the volume level of the music drops down way low for the last 40 (or so) seconds....something the original mix never had.
Apparently, the original mix is only available on the original vinyl LP (SD-8239). Lord knows if Atlantic still has both mixes in their vaults (they did not renumber the 1977 mix).
I wish someone would reissue the original mix...it's SOOOOOOOOO much better.
Free Music Review: One of those "forgotten classics"
Hit: 5 Stars
You don't hear songs from this CD on the radio any more (even on the classic rock stations). As with some other "forgotten classics" from that era (examples would be "Forever Changes" by Love, "East-West" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Rod Stewart's first album), this album received rave reviews and got a fair amount of airplay on the cutting-edge FM stations of the late 60s and early 70s. However, it didn't generate any "hits" and is now easily overlooked in the CD racks at the music stores.That's a shame, because this is Boz at his best - soulful, expressive, at times joyous and playful, at other times blue to the point of tears. "Loan Me a Dime" is the centerpiece of the album. Boz' voice, the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, and Duane Allman's no-holds-barred guitar combine to make the song soar and cry. "Finding Her" is a quiet, romantic contrast to the mournful pyrotechnics of "Loan Me a Dime", it's a little gem that gives Duane a chance to swoop and soar (turn the volume up at the end to hear his trademark "twitter"). "Waiting for a Train" is a lovely tribute to Jimmy Rodgers, Boz sings it with a woeful, resigned tone while Duane inserts little dobro fills and echoes; Barry Beckett does a nice little saloon-piano break in the middle.
The rest of the songs are good to excellent. No "filler" and not a "clinker" in the bunch, they're all worth listening to.
Don't pass this CD up when browsing the racks or surfing thru this web site. If you were listening to FM radio during the era when this came out, you'll be nodding your head and flashing back as you hear each song. If you weren't, this CD will give you a sense of what was being played in those days.
P. S. If you have the Duane Allman Anthology Vol 1 CD, you HAVE to get this CD. The Anthology album has "Loan Me a Dime", but the mix of the song puts the volume of Duane's guitar so low that you have to strain to hear it. You really need Boz' CD to fully hear and appreciate Duane's performance.