Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
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Artist: Boz ScaggsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- What Can I Say
- Georgia - Boz Scaggs, Scaggs, Boz
- Jump Street
- What Do You Want the Girl to Do? - Boz Scaggs, Toussaint, Allen
- Harbor Lights - Boz Scaggs, Scaggs, Boz
- Lowdown
- It's Over
- Love Me Tomorrow
- Lido Shuffle
- We're All Alone - Boz Scaggs, Scaggs, Boz
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Free Music Review: "Silk Degrees" Boz Scaggs
Hit: 5 Stars
Silk Degrees from Boz Scaggs is a classic album from the heart of the Classic era of Rock. Four-deep, Silk Degrees had four charted hit singles in 1976, in an era spinning with `singles' vinyl.
"Lido Shuffle", "Low Down", "We're All Alone", " What Can I Say", and
"Georgia", harmonizes into the cultural backdrop when memories revive that Bi-Centennial era back into a clearer focus...
"We're All Alone" gave further mileage to Silk Degrees in 1977, poignantly covered in a longing, loving lament by Rita Coolidge.
Especially, specifically and to the point, what Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees means to this reviewer is exemplified in this magical lyrical riff from "Georgia":------"Your Daddy was high the night he dreamed of you"(!) "Georgia, the stars were flying the night that you came through. Christmas in your eyes..." Oh, what a nice surprise. Pure poetry!--pure inspired lyrical genius from the Boz; distilled to send shockwaves down the nape of the neck; distilling spirits into poetry like Highland peat-roasted 12 year old Scotch...Or like an early-morning-in-August drive across the Golden Gate, returning from a long, extended night out, and watching as the reign of grey sullen fog succumbs to the sun-drenched, cement-spired City; that golden mirage moored across the Bay. Pure poetry..."Silk Degrees", Boz Scaggs ( and Company ), at their best...
Silk Degrees Poster
Lanky Texan neo-soul crooner and underrated guitar warrior Boz Scaggs was a Steve Miller Band alumnus who jumped ship to probe silky R&B instead of gritty blues, the Miller Band's original milieu, and each of his early '70s solo albums polished the mix toward this triumphant zenith. Hindsight too often devalues Silk Degrees for its snug fit with the disco aesthetic that prevailed upon its mid-'70s release, and the style's rhythmic signatures do bubble up significantly, particularly on the best-known track, "Lowdown," which can't help but risk museum-piece status if only for its ubiquity on the radio. Yet Scaggs's lyric intelligence and the skintight playing of a studio band built around what would soon become Toto (!) makes this a modern classic, as noteworthy for its ballads ("We're All Alone," "Harbor Lights") as for its workouts ("Georgia," "Lido Shuffle"), and a typically smart cover choice in a great version of Allen Toussaint's "What Do You Want The Girl to Do." --Sam SutherlandClassic Rock Music CDs
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