Boz Scaggs' sound is like a finely tailored suit: sleek and sophisticated. After briefly fronting the Steve Miller Band during their blues years, the Texas-bred crooner transformed himself into one of the '70s' most refined purveyors of blue-eyed soul. Marrying his slurred vocals to purring funk and horns drunk on moonlight, 1976's Silk Degrees perfectly expresses the heady decadence associated with the decade. Though Scaggs never ventures far from his trademark smoothness, he has released several albums that find him reconnecting with the earthy, Southern-blended R&B of his youth.