Album Review: Boz Scaggs -- A Fool To Care

In a career as long as Scaggs’, there are bound to be hits and misses and A Fool To Care lands at about the middle mark.

There are gems; opener, Rich Woman serves up some bombastic R&B with Scaggs’ relaxed drawl in its element, the title track has old-school dance hall charm complete with horns, and High Blood Pressure piles on the ‘60s rock’n’roll swagger. It’s the more schmaltzy slow-burners – Last Tango On 16th Street, Love Don’t Love Nobody and Whispering Pines – that just fail to render Scaggs’ rough croon in a memorable light.