William Royce Scaggs - also known as Boz Scaggs - is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1960s as a member of the Steve Miller Band and then in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees. Scaggs continued to write and record music through the 1980s and 1990s, releasing seven studio albums in this time.
In 2013, Boz Scaggs released his first studio album in five years - Memphis. The album is a self-proclaimed retrospective, with Scaggs saying "I had been thinking about a record that involved going back into my past and finding songs that match my style and my voice."
With five GRAMMYs, 14 Blues Foundation Awards, and a groundbreaking career spanning nearly 50 years under his belt, Keb’ Mo’ stands as one of the most accomplished and respected artists working in contemporary roots music today. Born and raised in Compton, California, Keb’ got his start working behind the scenes as a guitarist, songwriter, and arranger before breaking out internationally with the release of his 1994 self-titled debut, which earned widespread acclaim for its genre-bending take on old school sounds.
In the decades that followed, Keb’ would go on to top the Billboard Blues Chart seven times; perform everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The White House; collaborate with luminaries likeTaj Mahal, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, The Chicks, and Lyle Lovett; have his compositions recorded and sampled by artists as diverse as B.B. King, Zac Brown, and BTS; release signature guitars with both Gibson and Martin; compose music for television series like Mike and Molly, Memphis Beat, B Positive, and Martha Stewart Living; appear as himself in Martin Scorcese’s The Blues, Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, and the iconic children’s series Sesame Street; and earn the Americana Music Association’s 2021 award for Lifetime Achievement in Performance.