Cameo Critic: Boz Scaggs

What's in Boz Scaggs' CD player?

July 31, 2010 at 6:22PM
Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

What's in Boz Scaggs' CD player? The veteran blue-eyed soul singer/guitarist, who performs with Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald on Labor Day at the Minnesota State Fair, gave us the lowdown.

"I'm listening to Ry Cooder. There's an album called 'I, Flathead.' And then he made one with, I think it's one of the Cuban guitar players [Manuel Galban], it's called 'Mambo Sinuendo.' But they called themselves Los Twangueros."

about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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