Other Roads
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Other Roads
- Artist: Boz Scaggs
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- Release Date: 1988
- Total Time: 44:55
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
When Boz Scaggs released Other Roads in 1988, he'd been off the scene for a full eight years. Produced by Bill Schnee, it featured some of his most unlikely songwriting collaborations with instrumental backing by Toto along with some studio aces. Scaggs tried hard to walk a line between the decade's obsession with more processed studio sounds that utilized electronic keyboards and drum machines up front, while relying more heavily on electric guitars and kit drums. He doesn't always succeed in keeping the balance, but the attempt sets him apart from most mainstream acts at the time. Other Roads is odd from the start: the opener, "What's Number One?" is a spacey pop number written with the late poet and songwriter Jim Carroll and bassist/arranger Marcus Miller. "Right Out of My Head," written with Dan and David Huff, juxtaposes Steve Lukather's blistering guitar work against a synth fill right out of Gary Numan's "Cars." Scaggs nailed another number one with "Heart of Mine" co-written with pop-jazz songwriter Bobby Caldwell (and the only cut produced by Stuart Levine). There's a strange futurist club noir inherent in both "I Don't Hear You" and "Crimes of Passion" written by Carroll and the Huffs. "Cool Running" written by Scaggs with Patrick Leonard is a solid, grown up, island groover with staggered R&B horns contrasted with a female backing chorus and a bridge of vocal counterpoint. "Claudia," by Steve Williams is one of Scaggs' classic mid-tempo, broken love songs with a killer bridge, and stellar guitar work by Lukather. The set closer is a dreamy adult pop ballad entitled "The Night of Van Gogh," co-authored by him, Caldwell and Peter Wolf. Scaggs was in top vocal shape when he cut this: cool, bemused, but able to capture and communicate emotion mellifluously with freeze frame accuracy. While Other Roads didn't scale the charts as an album, and is regarded as a minor work, hearing it in the 21st century reveals Scaggs' ambition and vision reach outside the box in a collection of great songs -- even if the production doesn't fare as well as the material. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi| Other Realms (2004 Album by Errol G. Specter) | |
| Other Roads [Bonus Track] (1988 Album by Boz Scaggs) |
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| Studio album by Boz Scaggs | ||||
| Released | August 30, 1988 | |||
| Recorded | Schnee Studio and Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles, California and at Conway Recording, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Rock, Pop rock | |||
| Length | 45:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Bill Schnee, Stewart Levine | |||
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Other Roads is an album by Boz Scaggs, released in 1988. After an eight-year hiatus from recording, Boz Scaggs returned in 1988 with the album Other Roads, a record aimed primarily at the adult contemporary market. The album reached #47 on the Billboard pop album chart, while the lead single “Heart of Mine” was a big Adult Contemporary success, peaking at #3 on that chart. The single also reached #35 on the Billboard pop singles chart.[1] This single was produced by Stewart Levine (who also produced Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' "Up Where We Belong" and Simply Red's two #1 hits, "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now"). Another adult contemporary radio hit from the album, "Cool Running" was produced and co-written by Patrick Leonard.
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Reception
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
In their retrospective review, Allmusic praised both Scaggs's vocal performance and the unusual stylistic mix and tones of the songs. They concluded, "Scaggs tried hard to walk a line between the decade's obsession with more processed studio sounds that utilized electronic keyboards and drum machines up front, while relying more heavily on electric guitars and kit drums. He doesn't always succeed in keeping the balance, but the attempt sets him apart from most mainstream acts at the time."[2]
Track listing
- "What's Number One?" (Boz Scaggs, J. C. Carroll, Marcus Miller) – 3:58
- "Claudia" (Scaggs, Larry Williams) – 4:07
- "Heart of Mine" (Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff) – 4:12
- "Right Out of My Head" (Scaggs, D. Tyler Huff) – 5:24
- "I Don't Hear You" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:41
- "Mental Shakedown" (Scaggs, Guy Allison Steiner, David Williams) – 4:10
- "Crimes of Passion" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:00
- "Funny" (Scaggs, Marcus Miller) – 5:49
- "Cool Running" (Scaggs, Patrick Leonard, David Williams) – 4:14
- "The Night of Van Gogh" (Scaggs, Bobby Caldwell, Peter Wolf) – 4:20
Personnel
- Boz Scaggs – vocals, background vocals, guitar
- Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesizer
- Lenny Castro – percussion
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion
- Michael Fischer – percussion
- Siedah Garrett – keyboards, background vocals
- Dann Huff – guitar
- Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar
- Michael Landau – guitar
- Steve Lukather – guitar
- David Hungate – bass
- Buzz Feiten – guitar
- Carlos Rios – guitar
- David Williams – guitar
- Rhett Lawrence – drums, keyboards
- Patrick Leonard – keyboards
- Larry Williams – keyboards
- Peter Wolf – keyboards
- Aaron Zigman – keyboards,synthesizer
- Freddie "Ready Freddie" Washington – bass
- Marcus Miller – synthesizer, bass, clarinet, guitar, percussion, keyboards
- David Paich – synthesizer
- Alan Pasqua – keyboards, synthesizer bass
- Guy Allison Steiner – keyboards, bass, percussion, drums, synthesizer drums
- Jeff Porcaro – drums
- John "J.R." Robinson – drums
- Boz Schmit – background vocals
- Timothy B. Schmit – background vocals
- Phil Perry – background vocals
- Darryl Phinnessee – background vocals
- Kate Markowitz – background vocals
- Paulette McWilliams – background vocal
- Myrna Smith – background vocals
- Pam Hutchinson – background vocals
- James Ingram – background vocals
- Phillip Ingram – background vocals
- David Lasley – background vocals
- Edie Lehmann – background vocals
- Carl Carwell – background vocals
- Charlotte Crossley – background vocals
- Jeanette Hanes – background vocals
- Kevin Dorsey – background vocals
Production notes:
- Bill Schnee – producer, mixing
- Stewart Levine – producer
- Julie Last – assistant engineer
- Dan Garcia – engineer, assistant engineer
- Daren Klein – engineer, mixing
- Shep Longsdale – engineer
- Steve Thompson- mixing
- Mick Guzauski- mixing
- Michael Barbiero- mixing
- Doug Sax- mastering
- Jerry Hey – arranger, horn arrangements
- Deborah Klein – production assistant
References
- ^ Boz Scaggs Chart History, Billboard.com. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^ a b Other Roads at Allmusic
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