Boz Scaggs recorded his 1969 Dixie-soul beauty, Boz Scaggs, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He made this sublime, mostly covers album within spiritual spitting distance, in the title city with an empathic band (including R&B guitarist Ray Parker Jr.) and the right local help (pianist Spooner Oldham, Al Green session organist Charlie Hodges). The supple, grainy throes of Scaggs' voice invigorate old-school hits for Tyrone Davis and the Moments, and ballads by Tony Joe White and Steely Dan. Scaggs' two originals, "Gone Baby Gone" and "Sunny Gone," evoke his 1976 smash, Silk Degrees – if he had cut it for the local Hi label with the late, great producer Willie Mitchell.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”