Moments/Boz Scaggs & Band (CD, Rmst)

Long before he became the smooth, disco-tinged pop star of "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle," former Steve Miller Band singer Boz Scaggs was sort of the American Van Morrison, delivering an earthy mix of blues, soul, and folk-rock. This twofer contains his third and fourth albums (his first pair for Columbia), and finds him giving his all on everything from the Philly-style soul of "Painted Ladies" to the urgent, funk-inflected "We Were Always Sweethearts," and stands to prove that Scaggs's early work is significantly underrated.