Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scaggs opted, not surpisingly, for the change. "Silk Degrees," arguably the biggest hit last season by an artist or group not including Mick Fleet-wood, was a monolith, spinning off three hit singles and booming Boz Scaggs squarely into the Top 40 spotlight. His concerts, never before especially noteworthy, were suddenly sellouts. The days of the six-piece Texas blues band and the scruffy cowboy threads were gone forever; Boz was fronting a full orchestra and twirling stylishly onto the stage in silk scarves, Cardin suits and Gucci loafers. The image, after all, fit the music--slick and seamless...
...intents and purposes, "Silk Degrees" was Scagg's first album--the one that established him as a high-fashion god of blue-eyed soul in the ears and minds of the record-buying public. The question then became, could he do it again, and do it as well...
...eyes drifted over to the band where they suddenly riveted on a dark-haired beauty, delicately holding a silver flute. Under her band jacket, I could see her incredibly expensive cashmere sweater and silk blouse. Pure gold rings embellished her fingers. Diamonds hung from her ears...
...goal by Terrier star Dave Silk with five minutes to play in the second tightened things up at two apiece before B.U. got serious and dominated everything in the third...
...ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot be furnished with a new seat-type silk parachute and that no criticism be made if the parachutes were used...