So right now Michael McDonald has got a dope ass commercial on TV for MCI's new calling plan. I look at that dude and I'm like damn! He's gettin old, but his hair looks dope as hell. I can only hope that when I'm over fifty my hair will be a huge flowing silver mane like MM's. That brings me to a second thought- white guys whose records are bought by black chicks are the coolest dudes ever. It's like they're ambassadors of cool, showing both sides that we all have common ground. In that case, I think the pope should be working on sainthood for Michael McDonald as well as Mother Teresa. So if MM is a saint, Boz Scaggs isn't far behind. "Lowdown(1)" is one of those songs you always hear on "urban" oriented radio that you love but you can't remember who does it. Now you know, it's the man Boz Scaggs. Yep, that album that you've seen thousands of times with the funny looking white dude sitting on a park bench has a good joint on it. Only two 12" pressings of this song exist to my knowledge, one 80's CBS gold classics, and this blue label bootleg. It never got the12 treatment when it came out, so stop looking like I have. You'll need doubles cause J-Rocc did it on Live at The Sex Machine. The b-side has two house songs, "Lady" you all know with that raspy voiced dude on vocals, and one by Anastasia BNA Taylor Dayne. They both kinda suck, but "Lady" is a certified guilty pleasure and now you can have it without actually buying it.

reviewed by roc