The Essential Boz Scaggs

2013 compilation album by Boz Scaggs

Compilation album by

Boz Scaggs

Released

October 29, 2013

Recorded

1969–2013

Genre

Rock
blues
rhythm and blues
pop

Length

2:35:49

Label

Columbia
Legacy

Producer

Jann Wenner
Glyn Johns
Boz Scaggs
Roy Halee
Johnny Bristol
Joe Wissert
Bill Schnee
Stewart Levine
David Williams
Ricky Fataar
David Paich
Danny Kortchmar
Steve Jordan

Boz Scaggs chronology

Memphis
(2013)

The Essential Boz Scaggs
(2013)

A Fool to Care
(2015)

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]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
PopMatters	7/10^[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

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"I'll Be Long Gone"		Boz Scaggs	4:04
2.	"Loan Me a Dime"	Fenton Robinson	Boz Scaggs	13:04
3.	"Runnin' Blue"	Scaggs, Pat O'Hara	Boz Scaggs & Band	3:58
4.	"We Were Always Sweethearts"		Moments	3:30
5.	"Painted Bells"		Moments	4:03
6.	"Near You"		Moments	5:00
7.	"Dinah Flo"		My Time	3:05
8.	"Might Have to Cry"		My Time	4:05
9.	"You Make It So Hard (To Say No)"		Slow Dancer	3:34
10.	"Slow Dancer"	Scaggs, George Daly	Slow Dancer	3:15
11.	"What Can I Say"	Scaggs, David Paich	Silk Degrees	3:01
12.	"It's Over"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	2:52
13.	"Harbor Lights"		Silk Degrees	5:58
14.	"Lowdown"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	5:18
15.	"Lido Shuffle"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	3:43
16.	"We're All Alone"		Silk Degrees	4:14
17.	"Hard Times"		Down Two Then Left	4:30
Total length:				1:17:15

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Jojo"	Scaggs, David Foster, David Lasley	Middle Man	5:55
2.	"Isn't It Time"		Middle Man	4:55
3.	"Simone"	Scaggs, Foster	Middle Man	5:10
4.	"Breakdown Dead Ahead"	Scaggs, Foster	Middle Man	4:37
5.	"Miss Sun"	Paich	Hits!	5:32
6.	"Look What You've Done to Me"	Scaggs, Foster	Hits!	5:18
7.	"Heart of Mine"	Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff	Other Roads	4:14
8.	"Some Change"		Some Change	6:12
9.	"Sierra"		Some Change	3:44
10.	"As the Years Go Passing By" (Live)	Don Robey	My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology	4:46
11.	"It All Went Down the Drain"	Earl King	Come On Home	5:34
12.	"Miss Riddle"	Scaggs, Paich, Michael Rodriguez	Dig	6:28
13.	"I Just Go"		Dig	3:37
14.	"Thanks to You"	Scaggs, Paich	Dig	4:50
15.	"Gone Baby Gone"		Memphis	3:35
Total length:				1:18:33

Personnel

Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
Booker T & The MG's - feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
Fred Tackett – guitar
Louis Shelton – guitar
David Hungate – bass
Jeff Porcaro — drums
David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
Vincent DeRosa – horns
Jim Horn – horns
Paul Hubinon – horns
Dick Hyde – horns
Plas Johnson – horns
Tom Scott – horns
Bud Shank – horns

Release history

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

References

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