Speak Low (Boz Scaggs album)
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ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
Studio
- Skywalker Sound (Lucas Valley, California)
- Avatar Sound (New York City, New York)
- Meac Studio (San Francisco, California)
Length52:28
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Speak Low is an album of pop standards by Boz Scaggs, released in 2008. It peaked at No. 128 on the Billboard 200.[3]
Charity Stafford of AllMusic says the album "should come as no surprise to longtime fans." She then describes it as "a personal, canny follow-up to 2003's collection of standards, But Beautiful."[1] Will Layman of PopMatters says, "Boz keens, with the occasional Kermit-the-Frogian passage still audible."[2] Christopher Loumon of JazzTimes says Speak Low is "shot through with a haunted otherworldliness that is perfectly suited to Scaggs’ still-mesmerizing, if now enticingly coarser, nasality."[4]
Track listing
- "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:29
- "She Was Too Good to Me" (Chet Baker) – 3:55
- "I Wish I Knew" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:26
- "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 3:46
- "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:06
- "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:05
- "Save Your Love For Me" (Buddy Johnson) – 5:17
- "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 5:37
- "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 4:04
- "Senza Fine" (Gino Paoli) – 3:31
- "Dindi" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Aloísio de Oliveira) – 3:54
- "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:40
Personnel
- Boz Scaggs – vocals, guitar
- Gil Goldstein – grand piano, electric piano, accordion, arrangement
- Scott Colley – bass
- Alex Acuña – drums, percussion
- Mike Mainieri – vibraphone, marimba
- Shane Shanahan – tabla
- Bob Sheppard – tenor and soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, bass flute, C flute
- Eric Crystal – tenor saxophone
- Aaron Heick – bass flute
- Lou Marini – bass flute
- Lawrence Feldman – alto flute
- Joyce Hammann – violin
- Laura Seaton – violin
- Lois Martin – viola
- Richard Locker – cello
- Carol Robbins – harp
Production
- Boz Scaggs – producer
- Gil Goldstein – producer
- Craig Fruin – executive producer
- Chris Tabarez – mixing, engineer
- Dann Thompson – engineer
- Mike Pela – engineer
- Steve Rodby – engineer
- Geoff Countryman – engineer
- Leonard Hospidor – engineer
- Jay Newland – engineer
- Michael Rodriguez – mixing, engineer
- Ryan Doordan – engineer
- Justin Gerrish – engineer
- Danny Kopelson – mixing
- James Minchin III – photography
- Rebecca Meek – design
- Fanny Gotschall – art direction