Jojo, Loan Me A Dime. I’m On The Lowdown.
When Boz Scaggs came crashing into the Billboard Top 10 in August 1976 with his ultra-funky Lowdown (the second of eight consecutive Top 40 hits), he was an unknown to many who listened to the radio. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits lists him as a “pop/rock singer”; for most of us, he was [...]
Great Session Players – Jeff Porcaro
Whereas our last subject, Russ Kunkel, could be found in the drummer’s chair for just about every southern California rock record of the 1970′s, Jeff Porcaro was more of a moving target. Arguably more a stylistic chameleon than Keltner or Kunkel (or even Gadd), Jeff Porcaro played for a hugely diverse set of musicians. He [...]