What Can I Say?
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
I suppose it's testament to how big a hit this album was in 1976 that it is involved in several memories I have of that year. To 11 year old me, watching the video to What Can I Say on Top Of The Pops, it all seemed so...American. Of course, American culture was still a very foreign concept to me then.
I picked this up years later on a whim for a dollar, largely due to it containing the whopping open drum break intro on Lowdown, and it's sat unplayed on the shelf until today.
Musically, the best of the tracks are what would have been described as 'blue-eyed soul'. There's also some terrible cod-reggae and some Stones-ey stuff. It now gets called 'yacht rock'. It has musos on it who later went on to be in Toto.
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