Boz Scaggs: Fade Into Light (dualdisc) : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Fade into Light started out years ago as a single for a Japanese film. This beefed-up album version of Light features intimate new versions on some of Scaggs' most familiar songs -- including an unplugged "Lowdown" (with a stunning sax solo from Tom Scott) and gorgeously spare takes on "We're All Alone" and "Harbor Lights," all three originally heard on 1976's Silk Degrees. More recent songs hold up as well: "Just Go" is a heartbreaking ballad, and the title track is a beautiful, stately romantic number with strings. There's also a sultry new take on the Teddy Pendergrass classic "Love T.K.O." -- another vivid reminder of what a sexy vocalist Scaggs can be. Bonus: On the flip side of this DualDisc, you get video versions of three Silk favorites from Scaggs' Greatest Hits Live DVD that find the man in peak form and very much at home at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.