"Mailing it in"??? Paaalleeeeez ... it's called "Playing the ball where it lies" ... he nailed the dynamic of the song perfectly. This is not a tune to be belted and I prefer this groove and tempo to the Helen Merrill version even though that too was excellent. I don't know how you can do a jazz standard any better than he did them on this recording. I virtually always hate pop artists trying to re-do standards but this recording is a conspicuous exception to that rule. It's stellar.
@jessthehorse The jaunty little rhythm would be fine in an instrumental cover of this song, but in a sung version it completely undermines the lyric. This is a song about someone unexpectedly encountering a lost love, and finding that they still care deeply, while the other has moved on. Helen Merrill -- no belter -- conveys the awkwardness, the wistfulness, and the anguish. Scaggs is unmoved, and unmoving; just an aging hipster finger snapping his way down the boulevard: what's new, babes.
@hughmackie - well ... you are richly entitled to feel that way. The other versions are so down in tempo I had five o'clock shadow three times during one rendition. I did not find this so bouncy that it came across as frivolous to me, just more of a quasi Latin type of rhythm but as you wish.
Pleasant enough, especially the quartet behind, but vocally he's mailing it in. No feeling for the lyric here, and no interesting take on the melody. Just a contented duffer chipping down the middle of the fairway, happy to coast to a three over par. What's New? Nothing much here.
For a gripping version of this song, by a 24-year old who could taking Boz Scaggs to school, recorded a life-time ago, in 1954, check out this definitive cover, elsewhere on youtube: watch?v=n2mnND2_ovQ
When old rockers turn to jazz (and eventually most seem to) they hire the big orchestra and overproduce the hell out of it and end up with more of the same old "Standards" schlock... but not Boz. This is what I'd expect to hear in a jazz club, up close and personal. Cool and well played. Thank you Boz.
@DPSTweek - actually he is an "old jazzer" who turned to rock. Boz was a Blues guy before all that commercial crap like the Lido Shuffle which made me wanna puke.
Bittersweet. That's the word I've been looking for to describe this song. Love the lyric, "Of course, you couldn't know. I have changed. I still love you so." Awesome.
Brilliant rendition. One of my favorites.
joeyb4ever 3 weeks ago
Top Line..
guidomattina57 3 months ago
beautiful and I know he is singing to me. Don't you feel it too?
ASSUNTALU 11 months ago
today i received this record from japan.
amazing cd with great recording.
talibe801 1 year ago
"Mailing it in"??? Paaalleeeeez ... it's called "Playing the ball where it lies" ... he nailed the dynamic of the song perfectly. This is not a tune to be belted and I prefer this groove and tempo to the Helen Merrill version even though that too was excellent. I don't know how you can do a jazz standard any better than he did them on this recording. I virtually always hate pop artists trying to re-do standards but this recording is a conspicuous exception to that rule. It's stellar.
jessthehorse 1 year ago 2
@jessthehorse The jaunty little rhythm would be fine in an instrumental cover of this song, but in a sung version it completely undermines the lyric. This is a song about someone unexpectedly encountering a lost love, and finding that they still care deeply, while the other has moved on. Helen Merrill -- no belter -- conveys the awkwardness, the wistfulness, and the anguish. Scaggs is unmoved, and unmoving; just an aging hipster finger snapping his way down the boulevard: what's new, babes.
hughmackie 11 months ago
@hughmackie - well ... you are richly entitled to feel that way. The other versions are so down in tempo I had five o'clock shadow three times during one rendition. I did not find this so bouncy that it came across as frivolous to me, just more of a quasi Latin type of rhythm but as you wish.
jessthehorse 11 months ago
@jessthehorse - I was just about to comment that "this guy nailed it" but then I realized that was my post. LMAO
jessthehorse 11 months ago
Pleasant enough, especially the quartet behind, but vocally he's mailing it in. No feeling for the lyric here, and no interesting take on the melody. Just a contented duffer chipping down the middle of the fairway, happy to coast to a three over par. What's New? Nothing much here.
For a gripping version of this song, by a 24-year old who could taking Boz Scaggs to school, recorded a life-time ago, in 1954, check out this definitive cover, elsewhere on youtube: watch?v=n2mnND2_ovQ
hughmackie 1 year ago
When old rockers turn to jazz (and eventually most seem to) they hire the big orchestra and overproduce the hell out of it and end up with more of the same old "Standards" schlock... but not Boz. This is what I'd expect to hear in a jazz club, up close and personal. Cool and well played. Thank you Boz.
DPSTweek 1 year ago
@DPSTweek - actually he is an "old jazzer" who turned to rock. Boz was a Blues guy before all that commercial crap like the Lido Shuffle which made me wanna puke.
jessthehorse 11 months ago
This man has incredible staying power...I think he sounds better than ever 40 years later!!! LOVE YOU BOZ!
DefLepLvr1 1 year ago
AWESOME SAUCE!
tessiemarie1 1 year ago
His voice gives me goosebumps.
ChubbyBackTV 1 year ago
Very nice.
danomojo1 1 year ago
Bittersweet. That's the word I've been looking for to describe this song. Love the lyric, "Of course, you couldn't know. I have changed. I still love you so." Awesome.
Electrode46 1 year ago
Wow. What a great voice. Thanks, Boz!! (and band). Muy bueno!!
SunshineRising 2 years ago 2
Mr. Boz is jazz personified!!! Luv ya man!!!!
jjeep2 2 years ago
Ci siamo..ci siamo.
Perfetto.
LonesomeSuzie 3 years ago 2