This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

A sellout world tour followed but his follow-up album in 1977 Down Two Then Left did not sell as well as Silk Degrees had. Leaving school Scaggs briefly joined the burgeoning rhythm and blues scene in London. After Other Roads Scaggs took another hiatus and then came back with Some Change in 1994.

He gained fame in the 1960s as a guitarist and sometimes lead singer with the Steve Miller Band and in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write record music and tour.