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Boz Scaggs On World Cafe

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Boz Scaggs On World Cafe

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Boz Scagg's new music traces back to an early love of the blues that he first fell in love with growing up in Texas and Oklahoma.

Boz Scaggs On World Cafe

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Boz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future

"It's really a part of the healing process and the coming-to-terms-with-it-all process," Boz Scaggs says of writing an album after losing his home to wildfires. Chris Phelps/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Boz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future

Boz Scaggs lost his home and a trove of lyrics scribbled on legal pads and cocktail napkins in wildfires last year. Writing his new album, Out of the Blues, helped him process the loss.

Boz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future

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Boz Scaggs 'Speaks Low' With Jazz Standards

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For Speak Low, blue-eyed-soul legend Boz Scaggs had a sound in mind long before recording his interpretation of jazz standards. But the concept was blurry until he pinpointed the instrumentation: a combination of strings, horns and vibes.

Boz Scaggs 'Speaks Low' With Jazz Standards

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