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After learning guitar at the age of 12, he met Steve Miller at a local high school in Dallas, Texas. In 1959, he became 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, England. 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.

Returning to the US, Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music centre of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller BandSteve Miller is a blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 5, 1943. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison during the 1960s. He formed a new band called The Ardells. Steve taught Boz Scaggs's first two albums Children of the Future and Sailor , which won over critical reviews. After being spotted by Rolling StoneThis article is about the music magazine. For the rock band, see The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone is a music and music industry magazine that was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason (Wenner is still editor an publisher Jann WennerJann Wenner (born 7 January 1946) is the editor of the American pop music biweekly Rolling Stone''. Wenner founded the publication together with music critic Ralph J. Gleason in San Francisco in 1967. Wenner, Jann. he secured a solo contract with Atlantic RecordsRecord labels Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation is a record label founded in 1947 by the Ertegun brothers, Herb Abramson and others. Athough it began as an independent record company, it became a major player in the jazz and pop music busine in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the. Despite good reviews his first Atlantic albums were met with lukewarm sales, until he linked up with session musicians, who would later form TotoToto is an American pop/ rock band which had their greatest commercial success in the 1980s. Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 (see 1978 in music) with the following members: David Paich vocals and keyboards Steve Lukather guitar and vocals Bobby Kim and record his smash 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s album Silk Degrees . The album reached number 2 on the US charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle" and "What Can I Say". A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar Down Two Then Left , lacked the cohesion of Silk Degrees .

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 Sept. 11, 2001, was lost in the post-911 melée. In May, 2003, Scaggs released But Beautiful , a collection of jazz standards that debuted at No. 1 on the jazz charts.

He tours each summer, has a loyal cadre of fans, remains hugely popular in Japan, and will release a DVD and a live CD in 2004.