''Down Two Then Left'' is the eighth album by singer

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 196 ...

, released in 1977. It peaked at No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200. This album is notable for having the first appearance of Steve Lukather on a Boz Scaggs album.

Track listing

Singles released from the album were "Hard Times"/"We're Waiting" and "Hollywood"/"A Clue". Some copies of the "Hard Times" single bear a credit for this album under the title ''Still Falling for You''.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Personnel

* Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 5), guitar solo (2, 4) *

Michael Omartian Michael S. Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. H ...

– keyboards, synthesizers,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

(1),

marimba The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...

(1), horn arrangements, string arrangements, conductor * Jai Winding – acoustic piano (4) * Ray Parker Jr. – guitars * Steve Lukather – guitar solo (3, 8) * Jay Graydon – guitars, guitar solo (7) *

David Hungate David Hungate (born August 5, 1948) is an American retired bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his ...

– bass (1) * Scott Edwards – bass (2-10) *

Jeff Porcaro Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but is also one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundr ...

– drums, Syndrum, timbales (8) *

Bobbye Hall Bobbye Jean Hall is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 20 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early career, work for ...

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bongos Bongos (Spanish language, Spanish: ''bongó'') are an Afro-Cubans, Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. The pair consists of the larger ''hembra'' () and the smaller ''macho'' ...

(1),

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s (8) * Victor Feldman –

claves Claves (; ) are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks about 20–25 centimeters (8–10 inches) long and about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter. Although traditionally made of wood (typically rosewood, ebony ...

(2),

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

(6) * Alan Estes – congas (4) *

Don Menza Don Menza (born April 22, 1936) is an American jazz saxophonist. Career Menza was born in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, where he attended Grover Cleveland High School (Buffalo, New York), Grover Cleveland High School. After serving in the U.S. ...

– saxophones * Fred Selden – saxophones,

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and R&B saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's album '' ...

– saxophones * Dana Hughes – trombone *

Chuck Findley Charles B. Findley (born December 13, 1947, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American trumpet player known for his diverse work as a session musician. He also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone. His technical ab ...

– trumpet,

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

solo (5) * Steve Madaio – trumpet * Barbara Korn –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

* David Duke – French horn * Sidney Sharp – concertmaster * Carolyn Willis – backing vocals (1, 5-7), voices (verses, 4) * Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (2) * John Lehman – backing vocals (2, 3) * Zedric Turnbough – backing vocals (2) * Venetta Fields – backing vocals (3) * Roy Galloway – backing vocals (3) * Phyllis St. James – backing vocals (3, 7) * Terry Evans – backing vocals (4) * Bobby King – backing vocals (4) * Eldridge King – backing vocals (4) * Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals (6) * Myrna Matthews – backing vocals (6, 7) * Stan Farber – backing vocals (9) * Jim Haas – backing vocals (9)

Production

*Producer – Joe Wissert *Engineer – Tom Perry *Mastered by Mike Reese at The Mastering Lab (

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, California). *Design – Nancy Donald *Photography – Guy Bourdin (features the then-shuttered Romanoff's restaurant)

References

External links

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