Name: Moments [Bonus Tracks]
Brand: Friday Music
SKU: 1199360
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Moments [Bonus Tracks]

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Album: Moments [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	We Were Always Sweethearts
2)	Downright Women
3)	Painted Bells
4)	Alone, Alone
5)	Near You
6)	I Will Forever Sing (the Blues)
7)	Moments
8)	Hollywood Blues
9)	We Been Away
10)	Can I Make It Last
11)	We Were Always Sweethearts [Mono 45 Version] - (remix, mono)
12)	Near You [Mono 45 Version] - (remix, mono)
13)	I Feel So Good [Playback Series] - (live)
14)	Hollywood Blues [Playback Series] - (live)

Album: Moments [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	We Were Always Sweethearts
2)	Downright Women
3)	Painted Bells
4)	Alone, Alone
5)	Near You
6)	I Will Forever Sing (the Blues)
7)	Moments
8)	Hollywood Blues
9)	We Been Away
10)	Can I Make It Last
11)	We Were Always Sweethearts [Mono 45 Version] - (remix, mono)
12)	Near You [Mono 45 Version] - (remix, mono)
13)	I Feel So Good [Playback Series] - (live)
14)	Hollywood Blues [Playback Series] - (live)

Performer Notes

Liner Note Author: Joe Reagoso.
If his 1969 eponymous debut found Boz Scaggs digging down deep and creating some gritty soul-rock, highlighted by Duane Allman's extended work-out on "Loan Me a Dime," his 1971 follow-up Moments -- his first album for CBS -- found him sketching out the blue-eyed soul that would eventually bring him fame when he streamlined it for 1976's Silk Degrees. Boz Scaggs was a Southern record, but Moments is thoroughly Californian, sun-bleached and brightly colored, easily gliding along smooth surfaces. In the hands of producer Glyn Johns, Scaggs doesn't have any rough edges, and the change suits him well, as his soft, soulful croon almost cries out for a setting this lush, one that's just this side of being louche. Although Scaggs would go that down the gauche road in the '70s, Moments is far from the glitzy disco of Silk Degrees and its spawn. This is thoroughly a '60s hangover, right down to how the country shuffle of "Alone, Alone" slides between the warm soul grooves of the rest of the album. Most of this is decidedly laid-back -- the casually funky grind of "I Will Forever Sing (The Blues)" and slyly funny boogie of "Hollywood Blues" callbacks to the Southern strut of the debut, are the exception, not the rule -- and while this is mellow, it's not lazy: it's a relaxed exploration. By the time "Can I Make It Last (Or Will It Just Be Over)" quietly drifts away on extended instrumental coda, setting like a sun into the ocean, Scaggs has started down the path toward his signature blue-eyed soul. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine