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Boz Scaggs (born '''William Royce Scaggs''', June 8 , 1944 ) is an Ohio -born Texan Singer , Songwriter and Guitarist . BIOGRAPHY After learning guitar at the age of 12, he met Steve Miller at St. Mark's School Of Texas in Dallas . In 1959 , he became the vocalist for Miller's band The Marksmen . The pair later attended the University Of Wisconsin together, playing in Blues bands like The Ardells and The Fabulous Knight Trains . Leaving school, Scaggs briefly left Texas to join the burgeoning Rhythm And Blues scene in London . After singing in bands such as The Wigs and Mother Earth , he recorded his first solo album ''Boz'' in 1965 , which was not a commercial success. He traveled to Sweden as a solo performer and did a brief stint with the band The Other Side with fellow American Jack Downing and Brit Mac MacLeod . Returning to the US, Scaggs promptly headed for the booming standard "We're All Alone", later a hit for Rita Coolidge . A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 '' Down Two Then Left '', lacked the cohesion of ''Silk Degrees''. The 1980 album '' Middle Man '' would spawn two top 20 hits, "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo," and Scaggs would enjoy two more hits over 1980 and 1981 ("Look What You've Done to Me" from the '' Urban Cowboy '' soundtrack, and "Miss Sun" from a greatest hits set). But Scaggs' lengthy hiatus from the music industry (his next LP, '' Other Roads '', wouldn't appear until 1988 ) slowed his chart career down dramatically. Scaggs has continued to record and tour sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s , although he has semi-retired from the music business and now owns the San Francisco nightclub '' Slim's .'' Scaggs recorded '' Other Roads '' in the mid-1980s, took another hiatus and then came back with '' Some Change '' in 1994. He released '' Come On Home ,'' an album of blues, and '' My Time ,'' an anthology in the late 1990s. He garnered good reviews with '' Dig ,'' although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001 , was lost in the post-911 melée. In May, 2003, Scaggs released '' But Beautiful ,'' a collection of Jazz Standards that debuted at number 1 on the jazz charts. He tours each summer, has a loyal cadre of fans, remains hugely popular in Japan , and released a DVD and a live CD in 2004. In the hit show Family Guy , Peter Griffin would receive a Boz Scaggs CD set from Death at the end of their first encounter with each other. DISCOGRAPHY
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