Boz Scaggs – Sierra

Boz Scaggs – Sierra After learning guitar at the age of 12, Boz Scaggs 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-Madison 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 travelled to Sweden as a solo performer, and recorded his solo debut album, Boz in 1965, which was not a commercial success 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 psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band’s first two albums Children of the Future and Sailor, which received good reviews from music critics. After being spotted by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968. Despite good reviews, his sole Atlantic album, featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and slide guitarist Duane Allman, was met with lukewarm sales, as were follow-up albums on Columbia Records. In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the US charts and …

Yarbrough and Peoples was an American R&B duo from Dallas, Texas. Their biggest selling release was “Don’t Stop the Music”, a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981. Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples, both grew up in Dallas. They knew each other since they were children, as they had met taking piano lessons. They remained friends throughout their childhood.[1] Yarbrough met the Wilson brothers while on tour in the band of Leon Russell. He returned to Dallas, and started a band (Grand Theft), of which he and Peoples were the lead singers and keyboardists. In 1977, the Wilson brothers (who had just joined Total Experience Records as the Gap Band) went down to Dallas to perform a concert, and saw Yarbrough and Peoples, who were performing at a club in Dallas.[1] Lonnie Simmons invited the couple to Los Angeles and in 1979, they signed a recording contract and released their first album, The Two Of Us.[1] It contained “Don’t Stop the Music”, which topped the US Billboard R&B chart in early 1981, knocking their label-mate, the Gap Band’s song “Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)” out of the top spot.[1] It went on to chart higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than any of the other songs released on the label. The album went gold, peaking at #16 in the Billboard Hot 200 album chart.[1] The UK release of “Don’t Stop the Music” reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] The duo continued its R&B success throughout the 1980s, with four more Top 10 R&B hits. “Heartbeats” (R&B #10 in …
Video Rating: 4 / 5