A song like вЂLido,вЂ™ I can do it literally right off the record, and it still works. The Allen Toussaint song, вЂWhat Do You Want the Girl To Do,вЂ™ I still perform that. Some of those songs, IвЂ™ll just stay with. ItвЂ™s right for my voice itвЂ™s right for my approach. вЂњThe words resonate, the chords resonate. вЂњI donвЂ™t think IвЂ™ll ever move beyond вЂLowdown,вЂ™ as a song. But much of Boz ScaggsвЂ™ fanbase will always associate him with the canny mix of blue-eyed soul, sleek AM pop and adult-contemporary jazz found on Silk Degrees - and especially вЂњLowdown.вЂќ Scaggs says heвЂ™s fine with that, though he occasionally tweaks their original arrangements to keep things fresh. Like Toto, who just released Toto XIV, he has a new album on the way, titled A Fool to Care. Including live dates and a compilation, Scaggs has put out more 14 albums since Silk Degrees, covering an amazing amount of musical ground. There was so much talent and musicality and invention with those guys. During the course of that time, Steve Lukather showed up - and there was a little core of musicians that had grown up around Jeff and David, and it all came together. The broader group of people in the studio scene were already aware, in particular, of Jeff Porcaro and David Paich as proteges, and David Hungate had made himself the third member of that trio. It was not a great secret in LA about those guys. вЂњI think that we really opened doors for each other.

14 1981 hit with вЂњMiss Sun,вЂќ which had originally been demoed for use by Toto, and reunite again for 2001вЂ™s Dig, as well. You end up with things like Toto IV.вЂќД«oz Scaggs would eventually write nearly a dozen tracks with David Paich, including five on Silk Degrees alone. When you put those kind of guys in the studio, and give them freedom, you end up with things like Silk Degrees. We went from Stones-y rock вЂnвЂ™ roll to pop R&B to some jazzy things like on вЂHarbor Lights.вЂ™ Jeff - to whom I owe the introduction to Boz Scaggs - was the most important guy I ever met in my life. He allowed me so much freedom, and we were able to write just a whole range of things. вЂњThose were formative years for Jeffrey Porcaro, David Hungate and myself. вЂњIвЂ™m not sure if Toto would have happened as soon, or quite the same way, without Silk Degrees,вЂќ Paich says, in a separate Something Else! Sitdown.

David Paich credits their work with Scaggs as a kind of big-bang moment for Toto. Really, the songs and the arrangements that I was doing at that time were beyond my technical capacity to play.вЂќД®nter Paich, Porcaro and Hungate, who would eventually form the nucleus of Toto with Steve Lukather, a future collaborator of Boz ScaggsвЂ™ on the platinum-selling followups Down Two Then Left and Middle Man. вЂњItвЂ™s very intimidating, to me, to be around the best musicians of my age, the best ones in the LA studio scene. вЂњThat sort of happened when I started working with studio musicians,вЂќ Boz Scaggs tells us in an exclusive Something Else! Sitdown, laughing. The decision was spurred, in no small way, by the presence of sessions aces that included David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, Les Dudek, Tom Scott, Chuck Findley and Little FeatвЂ™s Fred Tackett. Known initially as a blues-rocking gun-slinger, Silk Degrees also highlighted a period in which Boz Scaggs went from being a guitarist who sang toward a new musical persona as a vocalist who also played a little guitar. 11 in 1977, opening the door for four consecutive Top 20 singles in 1980 alone. вЂњLido ShuffleвЂќ from Silk Degrees would go to No. ScaggsвЂ™ career was, after a two-album late-1960s stint with Steve Miller and six previous solo releases, finally on its way. 5 on both the R&B and the now-defunct disco charts. 3 smash co-written with David Paich, later of Toto fame. But then came вЂњLowdown,вЂќ a Grammy-award winning No. The lead single вЂњItвЂ™s OverвЂќ only reached No. The truth is, the album didnвЂ™t immediately start spooling off huge hits. When Boz Scaggs released Silk Degrees in March 1976, he was on his way to a five-times platinum smash.

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