The Essential Boz Scaggs Explained

The Essential Boz Scaggs
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Boz Scaggs
Cover:	The Essential Boz Scaggs.jpg
Released:	October 29, 2013
Recorded:	1969–2013
Length:	2:35:49
Label:	Columbia Legacy
Prev Title:	Memphis
Prev Year:	2013
Next Title:	A Fool to Care
Next Year:	2015

The Essential Boz Scaggs is a compilation album by American musician and songwriter Boz Scaggs, released in 2013.^[1] The album includes songs from his studio albums from 1969 to 2013.^[2]

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic considered the album to be superior to the 1997 compilation and that the record was "something close to a truly essential Boz Scaggs".^[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

Disc two

Personnel

• Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
• Booker T & The MG's - feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
• Fred Tackett – guitar
• Louis Shelton – guitar
• David Hungate – bass
• Jeff Porcaro — drums
• David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
• Vincent DeRosa – horns
• Jim Horn – horns
• Paul Hubinon – horns
• Dick Hyde – horns
• Plas Johnson – horns
• Tom Scott – horns
• Bud Shank – horns

Notes and References

1. https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-essential-boz-scaggs/728525996 Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs
2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boz-scaggs-collection-the-essential-boz-scaggs--tracks-hitmaking-career-over-course-of-five-decades-227384851.html Boz Scaggs' Collection, The Essential Boz Scaggs, Tracks Hitmaking Career Over Course Of Five Decades
3. Web site: Stephen Thomas . Erlewine . Stephen Thomas Erlewine . Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs . AllMusic.
4. https://www.discogs.com/Boz-Scaggs-The-Essential-Boz-Scaggs/release/5471202 Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs