The Essential Boz Scaggs

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]

The Essential Boz Scaggs
Compilation album by
ReleasedOctober 29, 2013
Recorded1969–2013
Genre
Length2:35:49
Label
Producer
Boz Scaggs chronology
Memphis
(2013)
The Essential Boz Scaggs
(2013)
A Fool to Care
(2015)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
PopMatters7/10[4]

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

Track listing

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All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."I'll Be Long Gone" Boz Scaggs4:04
2."Loan Me a Dime"Fenton RobinsonBoz Scaggs13:04
3."Runnin' Blue"Scaggs, Pat O'HaraBoz Scaggs & Band3:58
4."We Were Always Sweethearts" Moments3:30
5."Painted Bells" Moments4:03
6."Near You" Moments5:00
7."Dinah Flo" My Time3:05
8."Might Have to Cry" My Time4:05
9."You Make It So Hard (To Say No)" Slow Dancer3:34
10."Slow Dancer"Scaggs, George DalySlow Dancer3:15
11."What Can I Say"Scaggs, David PaichSilk Degrees3:01
12."It's Over"Scaggs, PaichSilk Degrees2:52
13."Harbor Lights" Silk Degrees5:58
14."Lowdown"Scaggs, PaichSilk Degrees5:18
15."Lido Shuffle"Scaggs, PaichSilk Degrees3:43
16."We're All Alone" Silk Degrees4:14
17."Hard Times" Down Two Then Left4:30
Total length:1:17:15

Disc two

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Jojo"Scaggs, David Foster, David LasleyMiddle Man5:55
2."Isn't It Time" Middle Man4:55
3."Simone"Scaggs, FosterMiddle Man5:10
4."Breakdown Dead Ahead"Scaggs, FosterMiddle Man4:37
5."Miss Sun"PaichHits!5:32
6."Look What You've Done to Me"Scaggs, FosterHits!5:18
7."Heart of Mine"Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason ScheffOther Roads4:14
8."Some Change" Some Change6:12
9."Sierra" Some Change3:44
10."As the Years Go Passing By" (Live)Don RobeyMy Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology4:46
11."It All Went Down the Drain"Earl KingCome On Home5:34
12."Miss Riddle"Scaggs, Paich, Michael RodriguezDig6:28
13."I Just Go" Dig3:37
14."Thanks to You"Scaggs, PaichDig4:50
15."Gone Baby Gone" Memphis3:35
Total length:1:18:33

Personnel

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Release history

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Country Date Label Format Catalog
United States 2013 Columbia Records, Legacy Records[5] CD, digital download 88883741212 / 88883741212

References

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  1. ^ Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs at iTunes Music Australia
  2. ^ Boz Scaggs' Collection, The Essential Boz Scaggs, Tracks Hitmaking Career Over Course Of Five Decades at Prnewswire
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs". AllMusic.
  4. ^ Boz Scaggs: The Essential Boz Scaggs at Pop Matters
  5. ^ Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs at Discogs