The Essential Boz Scaggs

The Essential Boz Scaggs is a compilation album by American musician and songwriter Boz Scaggs, released in 2013. The album includes songs from his studio albums from 1969 to 2013.

The Essential Boz Scaggs
Compilation album by Boz Scaggs
Released	October 29, 2013
Recorded	1969–2013
Genre	Rock blues rhythm and blues pop
Length	2:35:49
Label	Columbia Legacy
Producer	Jann Wenner Glyn Johns Boz Scaggs Roy Halee Johnny Bristol Joe Wissert Bill Schnee Stewart Levine David Williams Ricky Fataar David Paich Danny Kortchmar Steve Jordan
Boz Scaggs chronology
Memphis (2013) The Essential Boz Scaggs (2013) A Fool to Care (2015)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
PopMatters	7/10

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".

Track listing

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"I'll Be Long Gone"		Boz Scaggs	4:04
2.	"Loan Me a Dime"	Fenton Robinson	Boz Scaggs	13:04
3.	"Runnin' Blue"	Scaggs, Pat O'Hara	Boz Scaggs & Band	3:58
4.	"We Were Always Sweethearts"		Moments	3:30
5.	"Painted Bells"		Moments	4:03
6.	"Near You"		Moments	5:00
7.	"Dinah Flo"		My Time	3:05
8.	"Might Have to Cry"		My Time	4:05
9.	"You Make It So Hard (To Say No)"		Slow Dancer	3:34
10.	"Slow Dancer"	Scaggs, George Daly	Slow Dancer	3:15
11.	"What Can I Say"	Scaggs, David Paich	Silk Degrees	3:01
12.	"It's Over"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	2:52
13.	"Harbor Lights"		Silk Degrees	5:58
14.	"Lowdown"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	5:18
15.	"Lido Shuffle"	Scaggs, Paich	Silk Degrees	3:43
16.	"We're All Alone"		Silk Degrees	4:14
17.	"Hard Times"		Down Two Then Left	4:30
Total length:				1:17:15

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Jojo"	Scaggs, David Foster, David Lasley	Middle Man	5:55
2.	"Isn't It Time"		Middle Man	4:55
3.	"Simone"	Scaggs, Foster	Middle Man	5:10
4.	"Breakdown Dead Ahead"	Scaggs, Foster	Middle Man	4:37
5.	"Miss Sun"	Paich	Hits!	5:32
6.	"Look What You've Done to Me"	Scaggs, Foster	Hits!	5:18
7.	"Heart of Mine"	Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff	Other Roads	4:14
8.	"Some Change"		Some Change	6:12
9.	"Sierra"		Some Change	3:44
10.	"As the Years Go Passing By" (Live)	Don Robey	My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology	4:46
11.	"It All Went Down the Drain"	Earl King	Come On Home	5:34
12.	"Miss Riddle"	Scaggs, Paich, Michael Rodriguez	Dig	6:28
13.	"I Just Go"		Dig	3:37
14.	"Thanks to You"	Scaggs, Paich	Dig	4:50
15.	"Gone Baby Gone"		Memphis	3:35
Total length:				1:18:33

Personnel

• Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
• Booker T & The MG's - feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
• Fred Tackett – guitar
• Louis Shelton – guitar
• David Hungate – bass
• Jeff Porcaro — drums
• David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
• Vincent DeRosa – horns
• Jim Horn – horns
• Paul Hubinon – horns
• Dick Hyde – horns
• Plas Johnson – horns
• Tom Scott – horns
• Bud Shank – horns

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	2013	Columbia Records, Legacy Records	CD, digital download	88883741212 / 88883741212