| Dig | ||||
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| Released | 2001 | |||
| Studio | ATS Studio (Molin, Austria)
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| Length | 51:00 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
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Dig is an album by the American musician Boz Scaggs, released in 2001. [1] It peaked at No. 146 on the Billboard 200. [2] Scaggs promoted the album with a North American tour and an appearance on the television show Ally McBeal . [3] [4] A limited edition of the album included a disc containing a 5.1 channel DVD-Audio and Dolby Digital surround sound mix. [5]
Scaggs began working on the album in early 2000 by recording and mailing music to David Paich. [6] Dig was produced by Scaggs, Paich, and Danny Kortchmar. [7] Scaggs employed sound effects and samples on some of its songs. [8] Scaggs was backed by several members of the band Toto. [9] Roy Hargrove played trumpet on some of the tracks. [10] "Vanishing Point" is about two vagrants making their way to Las Vegas. [11] Scaggs raps on "Get on the Natch". [12]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [14] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [15] |
The Guardian wrote that "Dig sounds convincingly 21st century, but at heart it's the latest chapter in Scaggs's long-standing enthusiasm for rhythm and blues." [6] The Independent determined that "Scaggs is the American equivalent of Robert Palmer, an elegant R&B stylist with consummate blues and soul chops, whose career has been occasionally wrong-footed by the vagaries of musical fashion, despite the abiding excellence of his recordings." [7] The Mail on Sunday deemed the album "slow, understated and soulful; a record for Sunday nights and long, solitary drives." [16]
The Observer concluded that "Scaggs is still the blue-eyed soul voice against which others should be measured." [17] The Morning Call opined that "Scaggs's lame, late-'60s urban hipster attitude is the final shovel on Dig's grave, but it provides unintended laughs on tracks such as the lifestyle lesson 'Get on the Natch'." [18] The Orlando Sentinel noted that, "although his voice remains as warm and intoxicating as a shot of whiskey, Scaggs rarely lifts these songs above the level of pleasant, generic diversions." [14]
All lyrics composed by Boz Scaggs; except where indicated
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Night Calls is the thirteenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released on 7 October 1991. There were three different editions of the album released in 1991 and 1992. Each of them featured different selections of songs, in different orders, and had different works of cover art. In addition, a DTS edition of the album was released in the UK in 1998, also with a different selection of songs.
"Lowdown" is a song originally recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs from his album Silk Degrees. The song was co-written by Scaggs and keyboardist David Paich. Paich, along with fellow "Lowdown" session musicians bassist David Hungate and drummer Jeff Porcaro, would later go on to form the band Toto.
Hits! is a compilation album by Boz Scaggs, first released in 1980. It focuses primarily on material released in 1976 and 1980. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees. It was subsequently released as a single in 1977 and was produced by Joe Wissert.
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Memphis is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs. It was Scaggs's first solo release since 2008's Speak Low. The album was released on March 5, 2013, by 429 Records. The album has debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 17, and has sold 90,000 copies in the US as of March 2015.
A Fool To Care is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs. It was released in the US on March 31, 2015, and in the UK on March 30, 2015, on 429 Records. The album was the second in a three-album series celebrating American roots music. The front cover was by Danny Clinch who photographed Scaggs in Conzelman Road, Sausalito, California.
The Essential Boz Scaggs is a compilation album by American musician and songwriter Boz Scaggs, released in 2013. The album includes songs from his studio albums from 1969 to 2013.
