Boz Scaggs – Slow Dancer (VG+/VG+)

Slow Dancer is an LP by Boz Scaggs from 1974 released on the CBS label.

About this album

Slow Dancer is one of Boz Scaggs’ most assured early solo albums, drawing together soul, R&B and soft rock with real refinement. Released in 1974, it followed his breakout Silverlines-era run and helped establish him as a distinctive blue-eyed soul stylist rather than just a former band singer. The record leans on supple vocals, compact songwriting and polished arrangements, with highlights such as You Make It So Hard (To Say No) and Hercules showing how smoothly Scaggs could fuse pop discipline with funk and blues feeling. Its understated confidence gave him a stronger identity and pointed the way to the bigger success that followed later in the decade.

Genre: Pop & Rock