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 1969–2013.[2]

The Essential Boz Scaggs
Compilation album by
Boz Scaggs
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
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

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

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