Some Change was Boz Scaggs' amazing debut for Virgin Records which would also begin a long-term hit making association with the label. It also was his return to the album charts with his first release since 1988's Other Roads (FRM 40463). This 1994 Boz Scaggs/Ricky Fataar (Beach Boys/Bonnie Raitt) produced gem was a hip revisit to the critically acclaimed southern blues affair sound of his first album Boz Scaggs (FRM 9003). There was now a more organic roots sound, while still retaining all the polish and funk of a Silk Degrees (FRM 33920), thanks to a solid round of album airplay at both rock, pop, and adult radio stations.

Leading off with the Texan style rocker You Got My Letter, a real crowd pleaser filled not only with his much welcomed back voice but also his legendary lead guitar work. This would be one of the definitive tunes that would surely reignite radio and retail’s appreciation of this superstar performer.

Boz Scaggs fans would hear this and more single and album tracks throughout the year, as this stellar album received generous airplay on all the popular rock and adult rock and pop formats. The blues belter title track Some Change was a very popular go to song for the adult alternative stations as was the follow up single Fly Like A Bird, a crowd pleaser filled with all the New Orleans/Mississippi blues imagery you could imagine, showcasing Scaggs' soulful voice and a zydeco accordion paired into a wonderful tune for the fans.

Not a stranger to soul and ballad idioms, the sounds and elements he used on albums like the multi-platinum smash Silk Degrees, the Some Change album goes on to capture all of these ingredients with artistic ventures like the uptown groover Call Me as well as his stunning ballads Sierra and Lost It. Both of these magical tracks signify the way he can write a song, giving it an unequaled style and performance, while also creating five minute masterpieces with a sense of second nature delivery.

As a forth installment in our exciting Boz Scaggs 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series, we are pleased to present his masterwork Some Change as a first time audiophile vinyl release. Mastered impeccably from the original Virgin Records tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Records in Hollywood, CA, Some Change will be a much anticipated audiophile dream release for Boz Scaggs fans everywhere!

For this exclusive presentation, we are also including for the first time ever gatefold artwork which includes the original artwork elements, lyrics, as well as more rare visuals from his historic Virgin Records era. We are also enclosing a poly bag to protect your album cover and poly lined inner sleeve to help keep your Boz Scaggs vinyl in mint shape.

Boz Scaggs... Some Change... A superlative rock and blues masterwork from a historic legend... a first time audiophile vinyl dream come true... From your friends at Friday Music... Stay tuned for more Boz Scaggs original recordings from Friday Music.

1997’s Come On Home was a critically acclaimed celebration of some of Boz Scaggs’ favorite blues, New Orleans R&B and early rock and roll pioneers of which he wanted to pay homage. Utilizing his own successful brand of popular rock and blues styling Boz commented “I’ve wanted to do this rhythm and blues album for a long time. It’s a tribute to some of my heroes, some of the great R & B singers, songwriters, and musicians.”

The massive fourteen track event included several well received radio favorites like the Earl King blues classic It All Went Down The Drain and Fats Domino’s rock ‘n roller Sick And Tired.

Armed with some of his famous friends like Ricky Fataar (The Beach Boys, Bonnie Raitt, The Rutles), Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, Traveling Wilburys, Elton John), Freddie Washington (Steely Dan), Fred Tackett (Little Feat), Willie Mitchell and Tom Coster (Santana), Boz Scaggs and Co. truly captured the feel and essence of time honored classics from the likes of Bobby “Blue” Bland, T-Bone Walker, Issac Hayes, as well his own classics like After Hours.

As a continuing exploration of the great Boz Scaggs musical catalog, Friday Music is very honored to announce the first time 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl release of Come On Home. Mastered impeccably from the original Virgin Records tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Records with Ron McMaster, Come On Home is truly a musical feast for the heart and soul.

This wonderful deluxe limited edition 2 LP set is also packaged in a stunning gatefold cover featuring the great photography from the original compact disc release, as well as Boz’s original exceptional liner notes which truly add depth and artistic insight into this once in a lifetime session.

Boz Scaggs... Come On Home... a stunning artistic achievement... truly a desert island disc for the audiophile vinyl domain... from your friends at Friday Music.

Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs was not only one of the finest examples of crossover soul, pop and rock ever recorded, but it was also one of the biggest albums of the seventies and included some of the finest grooves ever played by Boz Scaggs, which netted him a Grammy for his mega number one hit Lowdown.

Other major hit singles included Lido Shuffle, Georgia, What Can I Say and It's Over. Other artists like Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli covered songs from this watershed album and had major hits themselves, which further illustrates the importance and influence of this highly loved and regarded masterwork.

Featuring his friends like Fred Tackett (Little Feat), Les Dudek, and of course the future hit makers Toto as his backing band for most of this fine album, Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees still rocks with all of us and is a crowd pleaser to this day!

Friday Music is very honored to be the home of this beloved masterpiece Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs, for the first time on high quality 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl. As another addition to our extensive Boz Scaggs catalog, the fine l.p. is mastered by Joe Reagoso and manufactured at RTI.

We have also included a wonderful first time gatefold cover for this limited edition run, as well as a very rare bonus Silk Degrees Live CD EP featuring three live tracks recorded in 1976 at The Greek in Los Angeles.

Moments was Boz Scaggs' amazing debut for Columbia Records which would also begin a long term hit making association with the label giant. This 1971 Glyn Johns produced gem was more of a departure from the critically acclaimed southern blues affair Boz Scaggs (FRM 9003), in that there was a now a more polished sound, the aid of a top forty hit single, and a terrific working band that would be a force for this future superstar's next couple of albums and concert tours.

Leading off with the hit single We Were Always Sweethearts, a crowd pleaser filled with summertime imagery, Carolina beach music horns, and his skillful lead guitar played through a Leslie cabinet, this would be the definitive tune that would start popular radio's appreciation of this soon to be superstar performer. Boz fans would hear the track throughout the year as it received airplay on both AM and FM stations.

Not a stranger to the jazz or blues idioms, and a pre-cursor to sounds and elements he would use on future albums like the multi-platinum smash Silk Degrees (FRM 33920), the Moments album goes on to capture all of these ingredients with artistic ventures like the bossa nova groover Downright Woman and his post flower power follow-up single Near You featuring Rita Coolidge on background vocals. Both of these magical tracks signify the way he can write a song, giving it an unequaled style and performance, while also creating three and four minute masterpieces with a sense of second nature delivery.

I Will Forever Sing (The Blues) and Hollywood Blues both illustrate the guitar wizardry and vocal power of Boz Scaggs as these tunes further define the man, the artist, and the timeless treasures that made Moments the album that it was and still is today.

For this deluxe edition, we have gone back to the Columbia Records tape vaults and have included the original 45 mono mixes of We Were Always Sweethearts and Near You, plus two ultra rare live blues belters from the super hard to find Columbia Playback EP series, a exciting reading of Big Bill Broonzy's I Feel So Good and a lively reprise of Hollywood Blues.

Other Roads was Boz Scaggs' eighth hit charting album with Columbia Records. The effort was a remarkable R&B/pop effort which leaned more towards the future, by not locking in musically with all that has since been long forgotten during the eighties. While taking a break from the recording scene for almost a decade, his much welcomed return in 1988 was met with a major hit single, a respectable chart album, and another home run collection of songs to add to his legendary catalog of music.

Produced mostly by Bill Schnee, Other Roads was true in a sense to the word, as Boz's music took on a new direction. This was in part due to the songwriting contributions and several collaborations with the late beat poet/musician Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries and People Who Died), Bobby Caldwell (What You Won't Do For Love), Patrick Leonard (Madonna) and a host of other unique associates.

The other aspect that always made a Boz Scaggs album an event was the players he would assemble to round out the recording process. For this venture, he chose his good friends in Toto, the late Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather, David Paich and David Hungate. Plus more star talent like Timothy B. Schmit from The Eagles, soul crooner James Ingram, and much respected wrecking crew players like Carlos Rios and Alan Pasqua.

Where David Bowie had Station To Station, Boz Scaggs has Other Roads. Balancing art with a beat and a slight change in style, once you dropped the needle on this LP, you could still hear traces of magic found on his Silk Degrees from the previous decade. But now with more of an edge, more guitar oriented with synth interplay and certainly with more of an adult leaning groove.

The first single from the album was the chart topping Heart Of Mine. Produced by Stewart Levine (The Crusaders/Simply Red), this superior ballad received a ton of airplay. Featuring a stunning vocal delivery that only Boz Scaggs could bring home, it's become a staple in his repertoire and was the track that helped solidify his superstar return to the charts.

More solid singles and album tracks followed, including the Scaggs/Carroll funk groover What's Number One, which is truly one of the more interesting illustrations from this rare partnership. The island fused Cool Running is also included and attained nice club and radio play thanks to the rare Shep Pettibone remix, which is now included in this deluxe edition.

One of the strongest tracks which shows Boz Scaggs in his usual cool form is the soul rocker Claudia. Paul Butterfield alumnus Buzzy Feiten lends his special guitar chops throughout this classic tune, along with the thumping bass of Freddie Washington. If there ever was tune that deserved repeat listens, Claudia is indeed that special song.

Other Roads was Boz Scaggs' long awaited and well deserved return to the musical stages of the world. The fans had been yearning for a new album from this platinum artist. He delivered in his usual fashion a fine work of art that was still commercial, had all the elements of his previous smashes, while also grooving ahead to the future.

As another installment in our extensive Boz Scaggs Deluxe Edition Series, Other Roads/The Deluxe Edition, is now impeccably remastered from the original Columbia Records tapes. Three very solid bonus tracks have also been added, including the aforementioned remix of Cool Running, his collaboration with Lamont Dozier You'll Never Know and the first time issued on compact disc Soul To Soul. Enjoy!

For his third Columbia album My Time, Boz Scaggs continued his trek into the blues, pop and R&B mainstream, while developing a solid concert career and a catalog of much respected albums. In a very short period of about three years, he charted four albums, amassed a good amount of radio airplay, toured all over the world, and still had the ability to write and record infectious masterpieces.

Recorded at both CBS Studios in San Francisco and the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama, My Time captures the artist at his best. Capturing on record a culmination of all the previous years of hard work and artistry in the studio and concert setting, this album was truly a turning point for the legendary Boz Scaggs.

Dinah Flo was the kick-off song and possibly the one track that finally captured a larger pop audience. Channeling the sounds of some of his favorite Philly and Motown grooves, the chart hit single was a radio favorite in 1972 and remained in his concert performances for several decades since. The song also had a revival in the early eighties as it was included in his platinum plus Hits album on Columbia.

The soul crooner continues his cool pace with some very fine interpretations in the way of Al Green's Old Time Lovin' and Allen Toussaint's Freedom For The Stallion. Both are recorded with the amazing Boz Scaggs Band from his previous albums and features the solid gospel feel vocals of Dorothy Morrison, Linda Tillery and Boz Scaggs himself.

Full-Lock Power Slide has the southern rock feel that would be felt later with bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws and Molly Hatchet. Blazing guitars, driving keyboards and a tight rhythm section kept this one in his concert repertoire for many years.

The power balladry of the hit making side of Boz Scaggs continued to excel. He's a Fool For You and Might Have To Cry truly illustrate his seamless expertise to create a classic soul ballad, later churning out mega hits like Look What You've Done To Me and We're All Alone.

His self produced Muscle Shoals session was uniquely shown on the album closer and title track My Time. The haunting electric keyboard melody by Clayton Ivey and the acoustic guitars of the equally talented Eddie Hinton made this one of the most memorable features of this release. A stunning visit to both his past, present and future, My Time was the crossover album in waiting that truly defined a career direction that made this artist the legend that he is today.

For this newly remastered My Time/The Deluxe Edition, we have gone back to the Columbia tape vaults and have found several rarities that make this album that much more an enjoyable revisit. The super rare mono 45 mix of Dinah Flo is now included, along with the rare stereo Playback EP versions of Freedom For The Stallion and Full-Lock Power Slide (originally titled R 'N' R).

1971's Boz Scaggs & Band was truly a showcase effort. Featuring not only the legendary artist, the album also included his extraordinary hand-picked band of notable musicians, who had been his touring and studio band for a number of his earlier Columbia Records albums.

Painstakingly recording the excitement and delivery of this multi-faceted leader and band, Boz Scaggs once again collaborated with producer Glyn Johns. They put together nine incredible tracks which netted the artist another chart album and further acclaim from the music critics and fans. Not sticking with one type of sound or genre, this rock and jazz fused album was truly a definitive look into the soul and artistry of this legendary musician.

Monkey Time kicks the album into full gear as this R&B fused old style rocker displays the interplay between the horns, the rhythm section and the voice and guitar of Boz Scaggs. This particular track was also featured on the highly successful The Music People 3 LP set on Columbia back in 1972, gaining a lot of new Boz Scaggs' fans.

The single Runnin' Blue is still a staple in his concert repertoire and is one of his classic throw down blues numbers that made this the classic that it is today. His love of Texas blues and the music of folks like T-Bone Walker and B. B. King all get a nod of appreciation in this dynamic track.

For a slight return to his Atlantic era, It's Up To You embraces the country blues feel and reprises some of those elements you might remember from his late sixties debut. Interestingly enough, he has most recently gone back to the roots and even plays bluegrass at various music festivals honoring the genre.

For more of a San Franciscan flavor, Flames Of Love highlights the percussive expertise of Santana's Michael Carrabello and Jose Chepito Areas. This funk filled groover helps close out side one and made this one of the more memorable tracks of this album.

Here To Stay is another definitive Boz Scaggs moment. This smooth R&B pop tune establishes his knack for crossing over into the adult pop mainstream while keeping his hip factor entrenched firmly in the blues. A precursor feel to his mega smash Lowdown, Here To Stay features a hook filled flute section, light percussion with solid ivories, and soul drenched vocals.

More soul follows, as Nothing Will Take Your Place mirrors some of the vibe from his Moments album, while the classic FM radio burner Why Why co-penned with the late Tim Davis returns us right back to a danceable funk groove. All in all, nine tremendous chapters of the ever cool Boz Scaggs all presented here for the first time remastered from the original Columbia Records tapes.

For this special Boz Scaggs & Band/The Deluxe Edition, we have gone back to the Columbia Records tape vaults and have found the super rare 45 mono edit of Runnin' Blue as well as a stunning live performance of his Steve Miller Band classic Baby's Callin' Me Home. The importance of this performance shows the legendary Boz Scaggs & Band on their home turf at the closing of the Fillmore West in San Francisco. This is a very special and amazing performance of this much loved artist and band.

In 1969, Boz Scaggs' debut release on Atlantic Records was a stunning classic recording that has earned its place in the history of rock, blues and popular music. Celebrating its four decade birthday, Friday Music has located the original session tapes, which haven't been available since the early seventies, and have spared no expense with the mastering process to deliver what we feel is the definitive audiophile reissue of the year!

The nine songs that make this incredible album such a winner has a lot to do with the musicianship, writing skills, and the great voice of Boz Scaggs that has endured for over four decades in the music industry. Fans remember exciting blues oriented tracks like I'm Easy and I'll Be Long Gone as some of the most important songs of this much loved platter.

With the famous Muscle Shoals studio sound, along with some of the finest musicians in the business, Boz and company delivered nine tracks of whack, that have stood the test of time, including one of his most famous works Loan Me A Dime, which hands down opened the doors for a lot of the cross over blues music that is being recorded today. This much emulated and loved work as well as the other great songs from the album feature the sorely missed guitar styling of the late Duane Allman.

For the first edition run of this masterwork, we are including a textured gatefold cover, along with the original graphics, poly lined protective album sleeve, and poly vinyl cover for the album cover. Pour your favorite glass of wine, place the pristine master on your turntable, crank it up and enjoy!