Lowdown comes from Boz Scaggs's 1976 Silk Degrees. The artist's album history places it alongside Lido Shuffle among the recordings that established the album's wider audience. Its studio setting also connects Scaggs...
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7 catalog entries, grouped by year.
About Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs developed a mixture of blues, R&B, rock and ballad singing after growing up in Oklahoma and Texas. He recorded in Stockholm and played on the Steve Miller Band's Children of the Future and Sailor before building his own album career. Silk Degrees brought Lowdown and Lido Shuffle to a broad audience. Later work included jazz standards and renewed explorations of Southern soul and blues.
Artist background sources
Boz Scaggs - Los Angeles Philharmonic artist biography
Musical upbringing, Stockholm recording, Steve Miller Band work, Silk Degrees repertoire and later jazz/Southern-soul directions. Chart claims and disputed dates found in other label biographies are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
1976
Boz Scaggs closes the original Silk Degrees album program with We're All Alone. This 1976 Scaggs performance is a separate recording from Rita Coolidge's later version already represented in the catalog.
Read background and sourcesBoz Scaggs developed a mixture of blues, R&B, rock and ballad singing after growing up in Oklahoma and Texas. He recorded in Stockholm and played on the Steve Miller Band's Children of the Future and Sailor before...
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Lido Shuffle appeared on Boz Scaggs's 1976 Silk Degrees album. Scaggs made that record with Los Angeles session musicians who would later be associated with Toto. The album also introduced Lowdown and We're All...
Read background and sources1980
A warning about potential relationship troubles.
View background statusBoz Scaggs developed a mixture of blues, R&B, rock and ballad singing after growing up in Oklahoma and Texas. He recorded in Stockholm and played on the Steve Miller Band's Children of the Future and Sailor before...
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Boz Scaggs developed a mixture of blues, R&B, rock and ballad singing after growing up in Oklahoma and Texas. He recorded in Stockholm and played on the Steve Miller Band's Children of the Future and Sailor before...
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