Maybe Boz Scaggs thought that adding R&B samples, hip-hop loops, Roy Hargrove trumpet solos and programmed synths would make his music hip and modern. Instead these awkwardly borrowed elements merely ...

On his first studio album in seven years, Plano-raised singer Boz Scaggs dips into the Great American Songbook and also revisits a tune he wrote before “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown” made him a star in ...

The album offers a mix of familiar and more-obscure songs that previously were recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Irma Thomas, and Lonnie Johnson. Detour came together after ...

“A Fool to Care,” the new album by Boz Scaggs, the singer whose rhythm-and-blues- and soul-touched recordings include the 1970s hits “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle,” features four songs with Louisiana ...

Boz has done his share of soul, disco and old-fashioned urban blues, always marshalling a string of fantastic bands, but this will his third selection of standards, the stripped down “But Beautiful” ...