There’s smooth, and then there’s Boz Scaggs. The former Steve Miller Band guitarist (on the two albums released in 1968, when Miller was more psych rock than stadium) has been making music on the ...

Steely Dan combined rock, jazz and funk in “Kid Charlemagne,” a single off the band’s 1976 album, The Royal Scam. Written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the song alludes to figures in the drug ...

I got my first Boz Scaggs album, “Moments” sometime in 1971. The local FM radio stations were frequently playing “We Were Always Sweethearts” from this album. The song had Boz’s distinctive vocal ...

Time to show ‘em who’s Boz. The penultimate performer in this year’s Saturday in the Park music festival is none other than Boz Scaggs, the mastermind behind 1970s hits like “Lowdown” and the ...