It's appropriate that
Boz Scaggs' new album
is
Out of the Blues, since the blues is what first sparked his
five-decade musical career.
Despite his '70s successes, Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the music-biz spotlight, traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim's, He returned to the studio after an 8-year hiatus and released,
Other Roads,
Some Change,
Dig, the Grammy-nominated
Come on Home, the unplugged
Fade Into Light, the in-concert retrospective
Greatest Hits Live as well as a stint touring with Donald Fagen’s New York Rock & Soul Review; all while continuing to maintain a loyal audience in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Japan. A pair of albums of jazz standards,
But Beautiful and
Speak Low, the latter topping the
Billboard Jazz chart, demonstrated Scaggs' stylistic mastery, as did the Southern-flavored
Memphis and the rhythm & bluesy
A Fool to Care.
"Music has been a constant companion and I'm feeling more free with it than ever," Scaggs comments. "I feel like I've found my voice through all these years, and I've gotten closer to where I want to be with my approach."
Joining Boz Scaggs tour is Jeff LeBlanc.
Jeff LeBlanc earned a history degree and imagined his
destiny would likely be as a middle-school teacher. However, LeBlanc’s
discovery of songwriting led him down a different path. Since releasing his
first album, he has epitomized success as an independent artist – netting
millions of streams, achieving both satellite and commercial radio play,
selling-out headline shows and touring the country with a wide range of artists
such as Boz Scaggs, Chaka Khan, Chris Stapleton, Michael McDonald, Tori Kelly,
Chris Isaak, The Wallflowers and more.