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 ...

Boz Scaggs went to college with Steve Miller and played a role in the ’60s psychedelic scene in San Francisco before settling into sophisticated smooth rock in the ’70s and ’80s. His album output has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been quite a while since Boz Scaggs' massive commercial breakthrough with Silk Degrees (Columbia, 1976), but even longer since he debuted as a solo artist, upon his departure from The Steve ...

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); ...