Boz Scaggs will release a new album, his first in seven years, on Oct. 17. Detour follows the Grammy-nominated Out of the Blues, and, like that album and its immediate predecessors, will feature songs ...

The album offers a mix of familiar and more-obscure songs that previously were recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Irma Thomas, and Lonnie Johnson. Detour came together after ...

Most people of a certain age recall Boz Scaggs for his 1976 breakthrough album, Silk Degrees. With hits like “Georgia,” “Lido Shuffle” and — the number three hit — “Lowdown,” it was a must-own album ...

Born William Royce Scaggs, the musician was given the nickname Bosley, which was eventually shortened to Boz, while attending a private school in Dallas during the 1950s. At the same school, Scaggs ...

On his first studio album in seven years, Plano-raised singer Boz Scaggs dips into the Great American Songbook and also revisits a tune he wrote before “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown” made him a star in ...

Boz has done his share of soul, disco and old-fashioned urban blues, always marshalling a string of fantastic bands, but this will his third selection of standards, the stripped down “But Beautiful” ...