On his first studio album in seven years, Plano-raised singer Boz Scaggs dips into the Great American Songbook and also revisits a tune he wrote before “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown” made him a star in ...

Boz has done his share of soul, disco and old-fashioned urban blues, always marshalling a string of fantastic bands, but this will his third selection of standards, the stripped down “But Beautiful” ...

Though full of songs about lost love and bad luck, the album buoys its bluesy mood with slick, seductive arrangements that reflect the era’s disco craze.