Middle Man

Infobox Album
Name = Middle Man
Type = Album
Artist = Boz Scaggs

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Released = April 1980
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Pop
Length = 41:27
Label = Columbia
Producer = Bill Schnee
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:enk9kect7q7b~T0 link] |
Last album = "Down Two Then Left"
(1977)
This album = "Middle Man"
(1980)
Next album = "Hits !" 1980

"Middle Man" is an 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

# Jojo (#17 US) (David Foster, David Lasley, Boz Scaggs) – 5:51
# Breakdown Dead Ahead (#15 US) (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:33
# Simone (Foster, Scaggs) – 5:05
# You Can Have Me Anytime (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:56
# Middle Man (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:51
# Do Like You Do in New York (Scaggs) – 3:44
# Angel You (Foster, Scaggs) – 3:38
# Isn't It Time (Scaggs) – 4:53
# 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
*Adria 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

[http://www.beautifulboz.com/61539/html/page.html Middle Man Lyrics]