Middle Man (album)

Middle Man
Studio album by Boz Scaggs
Released	April 1980
Recorded	1979
Genre	Blue-eyed soul
Length	41:27
Label	Columbia
Producer	Bill Schnee
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Middle Man is the ninth album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs re-hired the members of the band Toto as session musicians, and shared song-writing credits with them. He re-embraced the commercial rock appeal of Silk Degrees.

The album reached #8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100: "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at #15 and "Jojo", at #17.

Track listing

1. "Jojo" (David Foster, David Lasley, Boz Scaggs) – 5:51 (#17 US)
2. "Breakdown Dead Ahead" (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:33 (#15 US)
3. "Simone" (Foster, Scaggs) – 5:05
4. "You Can Have Me Anytime" (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:56
5. "Middle Man" (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:51
6. "Do Like You Do in New York" (Scaggs) – 3:44
7. "Angel You" (Foster, Scaggs) – 3:38
8. "Isn't It Time" (Scaggs) – 4:53
9. "You Got Some Imagination" (Steve Lukather, Scaggs, Bill Schnee) – 3:56

Personnel

• Boz Scaggs - guitar, vocals
• Jeff Porcaro - drums
• Carlos Santana - guitar
• Lenny Castro - percussion
• David Foster - synthesizer, keyboards, string arrangements
• Don Grolnick - piano, keyboards
• Joe Vitale - drums
• James Newton Howard - keyboards, Clavinet
• David Hungate - bass
• Steve Lukather - guitar
• Rick Marotta - drums
• David Paich - organ, synthesizer, keyboards
• Ray Parker, Jr. - bass, guitar
• John Pierce - bass
• Adrian Tapia - saxophone
• Bill Thedford - background vocals
• Julia Tillman Waters - background vocals
• Oren Waters - background vocals
• Paulette Brown - background vocals
• Rosemary Butler - background vocals
• Chuck "Fingers" Irwin - background vocals
• David Lasley - background vocals
• Bill Champlin - background vocals
• Charlotte Crossley - background vocals
• Venetta Fields - background vocals
• Sharon Redd - background vocals

External links

• Middle Man Lyrics