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The Lowdown on Boz's lack of bite...
Boz Scaggs had one major album success nearly three decades ago: 'Silk Degrees' a minor classic which featured the inimitable 'hits' 'Lowdown', 'Lido Shuffle' and the exquisite 'We're All Alone'. That's about it.
So how does a Boz DVD make out, coupled with an extra audio CD?
Well, as a statement of the Scaggs Legacy this package ain't half bad. It's just that this concert, from August 2003, is stuck in a seventies time-warp. It's actually quite frightening
that 11 of the 17 tracks are from pre-1980 albums.
Boz's audience in the late seventies have aged with him, based on this American Music Hall gig where there is a surfeit of tonsure and grey.
Boz Scaggs is a fine vocalist in the Robert Palmer white-soul mould, a polished songwriter, and a competent guitarist who cut his teeth in the Steve Miller Band in the late sixties. But as for innovation. Forget it. This nicely produced package plays
it safe, all solos in the right place including - one hopes - Boz's dentures. For devotees and dentists only.
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Review by David Randall
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