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Track Listings
| 1. What Can I Say |
| 2. Georgia |
| 3. Jump Street |
| 4. What Do You Want The Girl To Do |
| 5. Harbour Lights |
| 6. Lowdown |
| 7. It's Over |
| 8. Love Me Tomorrow |
| 9. Lido Shuffle |
| 10. We're All Alone |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Lanky Texan neo-soul crooner and underrated guitar warrior Boz Scaggs was a Steve Miller Band alumnus who jumped ship to probe silky R&B instead of gritty blues, the Miller Band's original milieu, and each of his early 1970s solo albums polished the mix toward this triumphant zenith. Hindsight too often devalues Silk Degrees for its snug fit with the disco aesthetic that prevailed upon its mid-'70s release, and the style's rhythmic signatures do bubble up significantly, particularly on the best-known track, "Lowdown". Yet Scaggs's lyric intelligence and the skintight playing of a studio band built around what would soon become Toto (!) makes this a modern classic, as noteworthy for its ballads ("We're All Alone", "Harbor Lights") as for its workouts ("Georgia", "Lido Shuffle"), and a typically smart cover choice in a great version of Allen Toussaint's "What Do You Want The Girl to Do". --Sam Sutherland
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Boz Scaggs's 1976 breakthrough, SILK DEGREES, was not only his biggest-selling album, it was also one of his best. HereScaggs collaborated with keyboardist and bandleader David Paich, who would soon form the hugely success band Toto with this record's drummer, Jeff Porcaro. In Paich, Scaggs found a foil who added just enough pop gloss to make his blues- and R&B-tinged material palatable to the masses. Crucially, though, the pair keeps Scaggs's remarkable voice at the centreof things, never going too far overboard with the studio polish. As a result, hit singles "Lowdown" and, particularly, the horn-spiked R&B of "Lido Shuffle" still sound fresh, while the ballads remain soulful. A year or so later, Rita Coolidge would take one of those ballads, "We're All Alone", into the Billboard Top Ten with her own version.
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