Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (Columbia)
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1976
For eight years, Boz Scaggs has been making playable, durable albums (counting the new one, there are now six solo LPs, and before that Scaggs contributed plenty to the first two albums by The Steve Miller Band).
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