The Essential Boz Scaggs
# The Essential Boz Scaggs

The Essential Boz Scaggs is a compilation album by American musician and songwriter Boz Scaggs, released in 2013. The album includes songs from his studio albums from 1969 to 2013.

## Reception

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| PopMatters | 7/10 |

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic considered the album to be superior to the 1997 compilation My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology and that the record was "something close to a truly essential Boz Scaggs".

## Track listing

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

Disc two

## Personnel

* Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
* Booker T & The MG's - feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
* Fred Tackett – guitar
* Louis Shelton – guitar
* David Hungate – bass
* Jeff Porcaro — drums
* David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
* Vincent DeRosa – horns
* Jim Horn – horns
* Paul Hubinon – horns
* Dick Hyde – horns
* Plas Johnson – horns
* Tom Scott – horns
* Bud Shank – horns

## Release history

| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| United States | 2013 | Columbia Records, Legacy Records | CD, digital download | 88883741212 / 88883741212 |
