Inside the making of Boz Scaggs’ self-titled 1969 LP
Having moved back to the Bay Area after various travels, Scaggs was writing material and searching for a more focused direction when he met Wenner, who lived across the street. With Wenner’s encouragement, he began recording demos, one of which, with Wenner’s help, wound up with Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler. With the idea of recording in the South, Scaggs decided to check out well-regarded studios in Memphis; Muscle Shoals, Alabama; and Macon, Georgia.
“Everyone was loose and welcoming,” he says, although they were also onto him. At the newly opened Muscle Shoals Sound, one of the musicians asked, “So you’re areporter, are you? I really like your work with that band you were in. Have you given up music?” Recalls Scaggs, “I was busted. They were on to me as soon as I walked in the door. I felt embarrassed. But it broke the ice and I told them the truth about what I was doing there.
Eventually, Scaggs and Wenner settled on the Muscle Shoals studio, which would pair Scaggs with some of the South’s most in-the-pocket session players: keyboardist Barry Beckett, drummer Roger Hawkins, bassist David Hood, and guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Eddie Hinton. “I knew the Muscle Shoals guys had never been used to stretch out,” Wenner says. “I thought we should make a rock & roll record that showcased them as much as Boz.
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