Nobody would have thought that a former Steve Miller Band sideman whose name sounded like a disease that might well afflict sheep would suddenly, after six failed solo albums, rocket to international stardom. Yet that's exactly what Boz Scaggs did with the LP Silk Degrees. Sure, his fifth album, Slow Dancer, had gone Gold in 1974, but that was still a far cry from the five-times platinum sales that 1976's Silk Degrees would eventually rack up. So what transformed Scaggs from solid, journeyman axe-hero into slick, multi-platinum groovemeister? Simple. He put down his guitar, found a new producer and assembled a crack team of studio hotshots. Those three vital changes helped to push his evocatively raspy voice front and centre for the first time, and also elevated him out of the psychedelic blues furrow in which he had been languishing into a rock/dance hybrid that resonated well with the disco sound that dominated America in those days.
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机译：没有人会想到，前史蒂夫·米勒乐队（Steve Miller Band）的伴奏者的名字听起来像是一种疾病，很可能会困扰着绵羊。在六张失败的独奏专辑发行后，他突然会飙升为国际明星。但这正是Boz Scaggs使用LP Silk Degrees所做的。当然，他的第五张专辑《慢舞者》（Slow Dancer）在1974年获得了金奖，但与1976年的Silk Silk Degrees最终获得五次白金销量相去甚远。那么，是什么将Scaggs从坚固的旅行家斧头英雄转变为光滑的多铂金凹槽槽呢？简单。他放下吉他，找到了新的制作人，并组建了一支精湛的录音棚团队。这三个重要的变化首次使他令人发指的声音变得凌乱和中立，并使他摆脱了迷幻的布鲁斯犁沟，在那儿他一直迷迷糊糊地成为摇滚/舞蹈混合体，并与占主导地位的迪斯科声音产生了很好的共鸣。那时的美国。
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