Complete List Of Boz Scaggs Songs From A to Z

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This Boz Scaggs A-to-Z songs list follows his long musical route through original songs, standards, blues interpretations, soundtrack recordings, anthology exclusives, and the late-career albums that kept opening new doors.

Complete List Of Boz Scaggs Songs From A to Z

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William Royce “Boz” Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas, after arriving there by way of Canton, Ohio, and McAlester, Oklahoma. Lessons on cello at age nine yielded to a guitar by twelve, thanks to schoolmate Steve Miller, with whom Scaggs fronted the Marksmen while attending Dallas’s St. Mark’s School. The pair carried their partnership to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gigging in blues combos such as the Ardells before Scaggs dropped out in 1963, busked his way across Europe, and cut an obscure solo LP in Stockholm in 1965. Miller’s postcard from San Francisco lured him back to the United States in 1967, where a brief stint on the Steve Miller Band’s Children of the Future and Sailor set Scaggs on a solo path with Atlantic Records.

That 1969 Atlantic debut, recorded at Muscle Shoals with Duane Allman and produced by Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner, earned raves but modest sales. Columbia Records offered a fresh start, yielding Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, and Slow Dancer, each edging him closer to a signature amalgam of blue-eyed soul, jazz, and soft rock. Commercial ignition arrived with Silk Degrees: number two on the Billboard 200, five-times platinum, Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Producer of the Year, and the Grammy win for Best R&B Song with the million-selling single “Lowdown.” Follow-up albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man went platinum as well, spinning off radio perennials “Lido Shuffle,” “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” and “Jojo,” while the soundtrack recording “Look What You’ve Done to Me” rode the Urban Cowboy wave into the Top 20.

Scaggs stepped back for much of the 1980s, surfacing with Other Roads and co-founding San Francisco’s Slim’s nightclub, which he owned until its 2020 closure. The 1990s and 2000s marked a stylistic pivot: Some Change paired adult-contemporary craft with blues inflections; Come On Home paid homage to R&B roots; and But Beautiful and Speak Low topped the jazz chart with standards bathed in cool restraint. Later studio albums including Dig, Memphis, A Fool to Care, and Out of the Blues underscored his versatility across blues, jazz, soul, and pop. Both A Fool to Care and Out of the Blues debuted at number one on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart, with the latter receiving a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Detour became Scaggs’s twentieth solo studio album and his first new studio release in seven years. Recorded with pianist Seth Asarnow and expanded from informal sessions, the album returned Scaggs to the Great American Songbook through “It’s Raining,” “Angel Eyes,” “Once I Loved,” “The Very Thought of You,” “Detour Ahead,” “I Could Have Told You,” “The Meaning of the Blues,” “Tomorrow Night,” “Too Late Now,” and “We’ll Be Together Again.” It also included a new, spare interpretation of “I’ll Be Long Gone,” reconnecting the collection to his 1969 Atlantic album.

Chart success is only part of Scaggs’s industry esteem. His hand-picked Silk Degrees session band included David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, and David Hungate, musicians whose work with Scaggs helped create the momentum that led to Toto. Several of those players also had deep ties to the Los Angeles session community, including work connected to Steely Dan, while Scaggs’s tours with Fleetwood Mac further reflected his standing among his peers. Awards beyond his Grammy include RIAA multi-platinum plaques, the 2019 Texas Medal of Arts, and recognition for Silk Degrees among major surveys of landmark albums.

Outside the studio, Scaggs nurtured live music culture. Slim’s became a Bay Area institution, while his tours, including the Dukes of September revue with Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald, kept classic repertoire in front of new audiences. Personal ventures included an organic Napa Valley vineyard established with his wife, Dominique, producing Rhône-style wines until the 2017 Northern California wildfires destroyed the property. He met that setback with characteristic resilience, continued charitable work, and remained an active touring artist into his eighties.

Beloved for a voice that glides from husky baritone to falsetto, for songwriting that marries sophisticated chord changes to pop hooks, and for guitar work steeped in Texas blues, Boz Scaggs occupies a rare stratum: equally credible to audiophiles, jazz aficionados, blues listeners, and soft-rock traditionalists. His career illustrates how thoughtful genre fusion, meticulous studio craft, and a willingness to evolve can yield a catalog that endures well beyond its commercial peak.

Complete List Of Boz Scaggs Songs From A to Z

A–E

“1993” – Down Two Then Left (1977)
“A Clue” – Down Two Then Left (1977)
“After Hours” – Come On Home (1997)
“Alone, Alone” – Moments (1971)
“Angel Eyes” – Detour (2025)
“Angel Lady (Come Just In Time)” – Slow Dancer (1974)
“Angel You” – Middle Man (1980)
“Another Day (Another Letter)” – Boz Scaggs (1969)
“As the Years Go Passing By” – My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology (1997)
“Ask Me ‘Bout Nothin’ (But the Blues)” – Come On Home (1997)
“Baby Let Me Follow You Down” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” – But Beautiful (2003)
“Breakdown Dead Ahead” – Middle Man (1980)
“But Beautiful” – But Beautiful (2003)
“C.C. Rider” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“Cadillac Walk” – Memphis (2013)
“Call Me” – Some Change (1994)
“Call That Love” – Dig (2001)
“Can I Change My Mind” – Memphis (2013)
“Can I Make It Last (Or Will It Just Be Over)” – Moments (1971)
“Claudia” – Other Roads (1988)
“Come On Home” – Come On Home (1997)
“Cool Running” – Other Roads (1988)
“Corrina, Corrina” – Memphis (2013)
“Crimes of Passion” – Other Roads (1988)
“Desire” – Dig (2001)
“Detour Ahead” – Detour (2025)
“Dinah Flo” – My Time (1972)
“Dindi” – Speak Low (2008)
“Do Like You Do in New York” – Middle Man (1980)
“Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me” – Speak Low (2008)
“Don’t Cry No More” – Come On Home (1997)
“Down in Virginia” – Out of the Blues (2018)
“Downright Women” – Moments (1971)
“Drowning in the Sea of Love” – My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology (1997)
“Dry Spell” – Memphis (2013)
“Early in the Morning” – Come On Home (1997)
“Easy Living” – But Beautiful (2003)

F–J

“Fade into Light” – Fade into Light (1996)
“Finding Her” – Boz Scaggs (1969)
“Flames of Love” – Boz Scaggs & Band (1971)
“Fly Like a Bird” – Some Change (1994)
“Follow That Man” – Some Change (1994)
“For All We Know” – But Beautiful (2003)
“Found Love” – Come On Home (1997)
“Freedom for the Stallion” – My Time (1972)
“Full of Fire” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“Full-Lock Power Slide” – My Time (1972)
“Funny” – Other Roads (1988)
“Gangster of Love” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“Georgia” – Silk Degrees (1976)
“Get on the Natch” – Dig (2001)
“Gimme the Goods” – Down Two Then Left (1977)
“Girl from the North Country” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“Gone Baby Gone” – Memphis (2013)
“Goodnight Louise” – Come On Home (1997)
“Got You on My Mind” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“Harbor Lights” – Silk Degrees (1976)
“Hard Times” – Down Two Then Left (1977)
“He’s a Fool for You” – My Time (1972)
“Heart of Mine” – Other Roads (1988)
“Hell to Pay” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“Hello My Lover” – My Time (1972)
“Hercules” – Slow Dancer (1974)
“Here to Stay” – Boz Scaggs & Band (1971)
“Hey Baby” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“High Blood Pressure” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“Hollywood” – Down Two Then Left (1977)
“Hollywood Blues” – Moments (1971)
“How Long” – Boz 1965 (1965)
“How Long Has This Been Going On?” – But Beautiful (2003)
“I Ain’t Got You” – Out of the Blues (2018)
“I Could Have Told You” – Detour (2025)
“I Don’t Hear You” – Other Roads (1988)
“I Got Your Number” – Slow Dancer (1974)
“I Just Go” – Dig (2001)
“I Should Care” – But Beautiful (2003)
“I Want to See You” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“I Will Forever Sing (The Blues)” – Moments (1971)
“I Wish I Knew” – Speak Low (2008)
“I’ll Be Long Gone” – Boz Scaggs (1969)
“I’ll Be Long Gone (Detour Version)” (new interpretation of the 1969 song) – Detour (2025)
“I’ll Be the One” – Some Change (1994)
“I’ll Remember April” – Speak Low (2008)
“I’m a Fool to Care” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“I’m Easy” – Boz Scaggs (1969)
“I’m So Proud” – A Fool to Care (2015)
“I’ve Got Your Love” – Come On Home (1997)
“I’ve Just Got to Forget You” – Out of the Blues (2018)
“I’ve Just Got to Know” – Out of the Blues (2018)
“Illusion” – Some Change (1994)
“Invitation” – Speak Low (2008)
“Isn’t It Time” – Middle Man (1980)
“It All Went Down the Drain” – Come On Home (1997)
“It’s Over” – Silk Degrees (1976)
“It’s Raining” – Detour (2025)
“Jojo” – Middle Man (1980)
“Jump” – Out of the Blues (2018)
“Jump Street” – Silk Degrees (1976)
“Just Go” – Fade into Light (1996)