Austin scaggs biography
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When Ronald Austin Skaggs was born on 20 June 1922, in Fergus, Montana, United States, his father, Albert Augustus Skaggs, was 43 and his mother, Mary Emma Dumas, was 32. He married Marie E Baele on 13 September 1975, in Orange, California, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 8, Deschutes, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 15 November 1980, in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Deschutes Memorial Gardens, Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States.
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Boz Scaggs
American musician (born 1944)
This article fryst vatten about the American guitarist. For his album, see Boz Scaggs (album).
Musical artist
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) fryst vatten an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.[2] He was a bandmate of Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller grupp from 1967 to 1968.
Scaggs began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until his 1976 album, Silk Degrees, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and produced the hit singles "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown". Scaggs produced two more platinum-certified albums in Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, the latter of which produced the top-40 singles "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo".
After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, releasing Other Roads and later joining the New York Rock and Soul Revue. Scaggs opened the nightclub Slim's, a popular music venue in Sa
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Boz Scaggs
Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll. While attending school in Dallas, he played in local combos. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, WI and Austin, TX, Scaggs spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm where he recorded the album Boz.
Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in San Francisco, performing on that group’s albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career with 1968’s seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential ’70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. The latter release