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And it surprised me in the way that it turned out to be something that I never intended. Scott Simon: And I wonder is there a story behind it ?īoz: Well, there's, it might only be interesting because it, I don't know, it's a clear example of how I write a song. Scott Simon: 'Fly Like a Bird' is a wonderful song. And in some ways I feel that it was very important for me to step away from it all, to look at it from a little bit of a distance and the music started coming back into my head and I started playing again. There just wasn't time to do it and it just wasn't there.

Boz scaggs crumb have a nice death series#

It was a series of responsibilities, keeping up that big career. I was doing less music at the peak of my career than I was at any other time since I started becoming involved in it. You know, I think that by not treating the muse properly you tend to be in line for what the muse may be able to take away from you. Scott Simon: Did you, at any point over the 17 years, lose your love of music ?īoz: I did. I can car pool with the best of them now, I'll tell you that. And it ended up taking may be moretime than I'd ever anticipated.

They were one and two years old when I decided to take some time off.

I wish I could say that there was something monumental I'd done, but basically I just put me together and raised my two boys. And six months turned into a year and a year turned to two and well time just passed. It was meant to be a six-month break from a high-level career and lots of running around. Scott Simon: I said you retired, what do you think of it ?īoz: Oh, that's fair enough I guess. Boz Scaggs joins us from our New York Bureau. It ended this month with the release of 'Some Change'. He recorded another album in 1988, but the comeback that was then pronounced did not quite materialize. Boz Scaggs followed 'Silk Degrees' with two other popular albums in the 1970's, then a greatest hits album, then he simply retired from music for awhile. That album was an enormous success in 1976 and included the songs 'Harbor Lights', 'Lido Shuffle', 'We're All Alone' and 'Lowdown'.

In the 1970's sea of sappy pop and earnest folk and mono-beat disco, Boz Scaggs was cool. If you sort through the music collection of many children of the 1960's, you're likely to encounter a well-grooved copy of Boz Scaggs' 'Silk Degrees'. Scott Simon - Host: If you search the record collection, and by the way, hey, remember records ? I mean back before music was recorded on twinkly, silvery discs that look that the coasters about the Starship Enterprise, but I digress.