Jude Warne will join us to discuss her latest book, Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs.
Boz Scaggs founded his connection to music through the blues, but his lasting legacy is one of glamorous and romantic pop songwriting. He possessed a somewhat shy and sensitive demeanor never totally at home in the public eye, yet his claim to several chart-topping singles and albums, particularly the millions-selling and critically acclaimed Silk Degrees (1976), demanded constant exposure. The persona he expressed through his music was laid back, effortlessly cool, sophisticated, stylish, romantically charming, and suave. But the immense success he achieved in his career pointed in part to the driven and determined artist within. This first-ever book on Boz , released in conjunction with his eightieth birthday year, is constructed around intensely thorough analysis of his complete discography, and new and exclusive in-depth interviews with a selection of Scaggs’s associated colleagues from his vast career. Jude Warne is the author of America, the Band: An Authorized Biography and a contributor to the anthology Rag and Bones: An Exploration of the Band. She has written long and short-form pieces on Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, the Steve Miller Band, Procol Harum, and the Yardbirds, among others, for various publications including the Vinyl District, the Observer, and No Depression. She has also published a six-volume YA fiction series. She lives in New York City. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and autograph.
