You can reach Staff Writer Dan Taylor at or 70. I feel very lucky my music has evolved to this point.” “We’re having a great time playing together. “I feel like if people like what I do, they’re gonna love the lineup I have now,” he said. They also have a place in San Francisco.īacked by his six-piece band, Scaggs expects on this new tour to give his fans a bit of everything - his hits, some blues, some jazzy sounds and maybe a couple of standards. In 2000, they started to produce wine and continued until 2013. Scaggs and his wife, Dominique, moved to the hills above Napa Valley in 1996. Scaggs went on to collaborate with Phoebe Snow and Michael McDonald, and he contributed to the soundtrack for the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy.” in 1967, Scaggs headed for San Francisco, where he teamed up with Steve Miller again, appearing on the Steve Miller Band’s first two albums. In 1965, he recorded his solo debut album, “Boz.” Leaving school, Scaggs briefly joined the R&B scene in London, then traveled on to Sweden as a solo performer. From his silky voice to the cut of his clothes, Scaggs is as cool as a splash of white wine at poolside. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison together, playing in blues bands. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller’s band, the Marksmen. His family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Plano, Texas, north of Dallas.Īfter learning guitar at the age of 12, Scaggs met Steve Miller at St. His son, Oscar, died of a drug overdose in San Francisco, California, USA. Scaggs, 77, was born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio, in 1944, the eldest child of a traveling salesman. Trivia He took the name 'Boz' because while he was attending college, someone who mistakenly thought his first name was Bosley kept calling him 'Boz', and it stuck. “I’ve been in the studio a bit lately, but nothing major so far.” “There’s always something going on,” he said. While no new album is ready for release just yet, Scaggs does foresee a return to recording. His most recent album is “Out of the Blues,” released in 2018.
Scaggs remains best-known as the singer-songwriter who scored hits in the late ’70s and early ’80s, including “Lowdown” and “Lido’s Shuffle,” but that doesn’t cover his entire musical range. But the new tour is the biggest project he has tackled for a while. He did tour for about six weeks last fall and played a couple dates earlier this month in Florida and Louisiana. He has performed half a dozen times at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, and will return May 30 for the first time since 2017. Scaggs’ new tour opened May 18 in Redding and runs through Aug.
Now that I’m getting out more to play live, I feel motivated to write.” “In the beginning, I thought that with all that time, it would be a good time to write. “I worked on some odds and ends,” Scaggs said. When the COVID-19 shutdown hit more than two years ago, longtime Bay Area musician Boz Scaggs thought it might be an opportune time to write some songs.
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