Over the phone, Boz Scaggs sounds very much like the native Texan he is. Which is a surprise – not only because Scaggs has lived in and around San Francisco for the last 35 of his 59 years, but also ...

With the threesome of Boz Scaggs, Cassandra Wilson and Eliane Elias, Jazz at the Bowl tried out the eclectic programming philosophy of its June cousin, the Playboy Jazz Festival. It isn't worth the ...

These days, it’s good to be the Wizard of Boz. In recent times, Boz Scaggs has been recording and touring as he pleases, including a highly successful road jaunt with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan and ex ...

Born William Royce Scaggs, the musician was given the nickname Bosley, which was eventually shortened to Boz, while attending a private school in Dallas during the 1950s. At the same school, Scaggs ...

All of which is to say: Never mind the fickle taste meter bollocks, here is one of America’s greatest living blue-eyed soul/pop/blues singers alive. That much was handsomely confirmed by Scaggs’s ...

With his new album hitting No. 1 on the jazz charts, Boz Scaggs is a changed man. "I'll use what I've learned in this process in whatever I do from now on," he says. Fresh from a Japanese club tour ...

Fifty years ago, a handful of milestone albums set the tone for rock of the following decade. Crosby, Stills & Nash initiated a fresh approach to harmonies and looser group names; the eponymous debut ...

BOZ Scaggs is one of the most reliably entertaining live performers in the business. Not surprisingly, it was standard Boz on Thursday night at Livermore’s Wente Vineyards. But it wasn’t “standards” ...

Boz Scaggs calls the trio of albums he has released beginning with 2013′s “Memphis” a trilogy. These releases — “Memphis,” 2015′s “A Fool To Care” and his current album, “Out of the Blues” — have ...

After first finding acclaim as a member of the Steve Miller Band, singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs went on to enjoy considerable solo success in the 1970s. Born William Royce Scaggs in Ohio on June 8, ...

Boz Scaggs made a household name for himself with the ultra-slick Silk Degrees (Columbia, 1975), but he had already established a solo career for himself in the wake of departing The Steve Miller Band ...

Rock and pop singers have wildly different reasons for tackling the great American songbook: irony (Bryan Ferry); homage (Joni Mitchell); over-confidence (Robbie Williams); affection (Linda Ronstadt); ...