Slow Dancer (Vinyl)

50th anniversary, yellow vinyl edition. Slow Dancer was originally released in 1974, two years before his giant commercial breakthrough album, Silk Degrees, but it is filled with songs as catchy as that follow-up album. 

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Featuring his would-be-soulman sound, Slow Dancer finds Boz Scaggs straddling the fine line between Van Morrison and Isaac Hayes. While Silk Degrees is often touted as Scaggs' best '70s album -- based largely upon the chart success of "Lowdown" -- Slow Dancer features just as many catchy melodic tunes that meld a kind of boogie pub rock with an organic urban soul. 

Produced by Motown regular Johnny Bristol, Scaggs delivers some of his best performances on the Bristol-penned track "Pain of Love" and the Neil Young meets Marvin Gaye ballad "Sail on White Moon."

Matt Collar - Allmusic (4.5 Stars)