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Released
  
August 30, 1988

Other Roads (1988)
  
Some Change (1994)

Release date
  
30 August 1988

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop rock

Length
  
45:00

Artist
  
Boz Scaggs

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Studio
  
Schnee Studio, Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles, California; Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, California

Producers
  
Bill Schnee, Stewart Levine, Patrick Leonard

Similar
  
Boz Scaggs albums, Rock music albums

Other Roads is an album by Boz Scaggs, released in 1988. After an eight-year hiatus from recording, Boz Scaggs returned in 1988 with the album Other Roads, a record aimed primarily at the adult contemporary market. The album reached #47 on the Billboard pop album chart, while the lead single “Heart of Mine” was a big Adult Contemporary success, peaking at #3 on that chart. The single also reached #35 on the Billboard pop singles chart. This single was produced by Stewart Levine (who also produced Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' "Up Where We Belong" and Simply Red's two #1 hits, "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now"). Another adult contemporary radio hit from the album, "Cool Running" was produced and co-written by Patrick Leonard.

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Reception

In their retrospective review, Allmusic praised both Scaggs's vocal performance and the unusual stylistic mix and tones of the songs. They concluded, "Scaggs tried hard to walk a line between the decade's obsession with more processed studio sounds that utilized electronic keyboards and drum machines up front, while relying more heavily on electric guitars and kit drums. He doesn't always succeed in keeping the balance, but the attempt sets him apart from most mainstream acts at that time."

Track listing

  1. "What's Number One?" (Boz Scaggs, J. C. Carroll, Marcus Miller) – 3:58
  2. "Claudia" (Scaggs, Larry Williams) – 4:07
  3. "Heart of Mine" (Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff) – 4:12
  4. "Right Out of My Head" (Scaggs, D. Tyler Huff) – 5:24
  5. "I Don't Hear You" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:41
  6. "Mental Shakedown" (Scaggs, Guy Allison Steiner, David Williams) – 4:10
  7. "Crimes of Passion" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:00
  8. "Funny" (Scaggs, Marcus Miller) – 5:49
  9. "Cool Running" (Scaggs, Patrick Leonard, David Williams) – 4:14
  10. "The Night of Van Gogh" (Scaggs, Bobby Caldwell, Peter Wolf) – 4:20

Personnel

  • Boz Scaggs – lead and background vocals, guitar
  • Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesizer
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Michael Fischer – percussion
  • Siedah Garrett – keyboards, background vocals
  • Dann Huff – guitar
  • Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar
  • Michael Landau – guitar
  • Steve Lukather – guitar
  • David Hungate – bass
  • Buzz Feiten – guitar
  • Carlos Rios – guitar
  • David Williams – guitar
  • Rhett Lawrence – drums, keyboards (om track 1)
  • Patrick Leonard – keyboards
  • Larry Williams – keyboards
  • Peter Wolf – keyboards
  • Aaron Zigman – keyboards, synthesizer
  • Freddie "Ready Freddie" Washington – bass
  • Marcus Miller – synthesizer, bass, clarinet, guitar, percussion, keyboards
  • David Paich – synthesizer
  • Alan Pasqua – keyboards, synthesizer bass
  • Guy Allison Steiner – keyboards, bass, percussion, drums, synthesizer drums
  • John "J.R." Robinson – drums (on tracks 2,3,6)
  • Jeff Porcaro – drums (on everything else)
  • Boz Schmit – background vocals
  • Timothy B. Schmit – background vocals
  • Phil Perry – background vocals
  • Darryl Phinnessee – background vocals
  • Kate Markowitz – background vocals
  • Paulette McWilliams – background vocal
  • Myrna Smith – background vocals
  • Pam Hutchinson – background vocals
  • James Ingram – background vocals
  • Phillip Ingram – background vocals
  • David Lasley – background vocals
  • Edie Lehmann – background vocals
  • Carl Carwell – background vocals
  • Charlotte Crossley – background vocals
  • Jeanette Hanes – background vocals
  • Kevin Dorsey – background vocals

    • Production notes:

  • Bill Schnee – producer, mixing
  • Stewart Levine – producer
  • Patrick Leonard – producer
  • Julie Last – assistant engineer
  • Dan Garcia – engineer, assistant engineer
  • Daren Klein – engineer, mixing
  • Shep Longsdale – engineer
  • Steve Thompson – mixing
  • Mick Guzauski – mixing
  • Michael Barbiero – mixing
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Jerry Hey – arranger, horn arrangements
  • Deborah Klein – production assistant

    • Songs

    1What's Number One?3:58
    2Claudia4:08
    3Heart of Mine4:13

    References

    Other Roads Wikipedia
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