The cover of Boz Scaggs 1976 album “Silk Degrees“ was taken at Casino Point near Avalon on Catalina Island which is located about 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles, California.
This was the seventh album by Scaggs and was released on Columbia Records. The album peaked at No. 2 and spent 115 weeks on the Billboard 200.
Silk Degrees Tracks:
Side One:
What Can I Say
Georgia
Jump Street
What Do You Want the Girl to Do
Harbor Lights
Side Two:
Lowdown
It’s Over
Love Me Tomorrow
Lido Shuffle
We’re All Alone
Personnel:
Boz Scaggs – guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Fred Tackett – guitar
Les Dudek – slide guitar
Louis Shelton – guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar
David Hungate – bass
Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion, timbales
Joe Porcaro – percussion
David Paich – acoustic piano, Hohner clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Moog synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, Minimoog, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, harpsichord
Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone
Jim Horn – tenor saxophone
Bud Shank – saxophone
Chuck Findley – flugelhorn solo
Sid Sharp – string conductor and concertmaster
Horns – Tony Terran, Vincent DeRosa, Jim Horn, Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott and Bud Shank
Backing vocals – Jim Gilstrap, Maxine Green, Augie Johnson, Marty McCall, Pepper Swenson, Carolyn Willis
Boz Scaggs Discography
1965 – Boz
1969 – Boz Scaggs
1971 – Moments
1971 – Boz Scaggs & Band
1972 – My Time
1974 – Slow Dancer
1976 – Silk Degrees
1977 – Down Two Then Left
1980 – Middle Man
1988 – Other Roads
1996 – Fade into Light
1997 – Come On Home
2001 – Dig
2002 – Sail on White Moon
2003 – But Beautiful
2008 – Speak Low
2013 – Memphis
2015 – A Fool to Care
2018 – Out of the Blues
Beach
Avalon CA
Right. Something missing: who made this brilliant image?
Guy Bourdin was the photographer for the cover of the Silk Degrees album.
Moshe Brakha shot the cover for “Silk Degrees” and Guy Bourdin shot the cover for “Down Two Then Left”.
I love this album! I have always loved the cover art too.