Events

[ROCK] When Boz Scaggs hit the top 40 in 1976 with “Lowdown,” he may have seemed like an overnight success to a lot of the audiences who locked into its insistently infectious groove. But the singer-guitarist had been a fixture on the San Francisco scene for a decade, first with the Steve Miller Band and later as a solo artist working with the likes of Duane Allman and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. The influences he absorbed came together in a soulful R&B style that made Silk Degrees one of the best selling albums of the decade. He has continued to record, getting some of the best reviews of his career for his recent albums Memphis and A Fool to Care. Opening his Artpark performance on Tuesday, August 23 will be Don McLean, whose 1971 epic “American Pie” provided an elegy for the optimism of the 1960s. He was equally successful with original songs (“Vincent,” “And I Love You So”) and covers, including a remake of “Crying” that Roy Orbison reputedly felt was superior to his original.