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Middle Man (album)

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Reception
Track listing
Personnel
Production
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{{Infobox album
| name = Middle Man
| type = studio
| artist = Boz Scaggs
| cover = Middleman.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 1980
| recorded = 1979
| venue =
| studio = Studio 55 (Los Angeles, California), Sunset Sound and Cherokee Studios (Hollywood, California)
| genre = Pop, rock^[1]
| length = 41:27
| label = Columbia
| producer = Bill Schnee
| prev_title = Down Two Then Left
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Hits!
| next_year = 1980
}}

Middle Man is an album by Boz Scaggs that was released by Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs hired members of the band Toto as session musicians and shared songwriting credits with them, returning to the commercial, soul-influenced rock of Silk Degrees (1976).

The album reached No. 8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100: "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at No. 15 and "Jojo" at No. 17.^[2]

Reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} ^[3]
| rev2 = Smash Hits
| rev2Score = 5/10^[4]
}}

Writing for Smash Hits in 1980, David Hepworth described Middle Man as an "impeccably tasteful collection of sophisticated white soul" that was "useful as background music in the more sedate kind of nite spot". Acknowledging that the album was "well done", Hepworth noted that Scaggs' previous albums were "thrilling as well as perfectly formed". Hepworth went on to say that the album sounded as though "they designed the sleeve first and then made the record to go in it".^[4]

Allmusic's retrospective review commented that the album "caps off the decade with equal nods to [Scaggs's] '70s hitmaking formulas and the newer, shinier production techniques of the coming decade." They made a point of noting the album's repeated imitation of then-popular fads, while at the same time opining that these imitations were successful.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by David Foster and Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Side One

"Jojo" (Foster, David Lasley, Scaggs) – 5:51
"Breakdown Dead Ahead" – 4:33
"Simone" – 5:05
"You Can Have Me Anytime" – 4:56

Side Two

"Middle Man" – 4:51
"Do Like You Do in New York" (Scaggs) – 3:44
"Angel You" – 3:38
"Isn't It Time" (Scaggs) – 4:53
"You Got Some Imagination" (Steve Lukather, Scaggs, Bill Schnee) – 3:56

Personnel

Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar (1-8)
Ray Parker Jr. – guitar (1-8), bass guitar (6)
Steve Lukather – lead guitars (1, 3, 5-8), additional guitars (2), guitar solo (2, 7, 8), all guitars (9)
Carlos Santana – guitar solo (4)
John Pierce – bass guitar (1)
David Hungate – bass guitar (2-5, 7-9)
Jeff Porcaro – drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9)
Rick Marotta – drums (2, 8)
Joe Vitale – drums (6)
Lenny Castro – percussion
David Foster – synthesizers (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9), acoustic piano (1-5, 7), electric piano (3, 4, 8), string arrangements (1, 3, 4, 5, 8), synthesizer programming
Don Grolnick – electric piano (2), acoustic piano (8)
David Paich – additional synthesizer (3), organ (6), synthesizer (6)
James Newton Howard – clavinet (6)
Larry Fast – synthesizer programming
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming
Steve Porcaro – synthesizer programming
Adrian Tapia – saxophone solo (1)
Marty Paich – string arrangements (4)
Charlotte Crossley – backing vocals (1)
David Lasley – backing vocals (1, 6)
Sharon Redd – backing vocals (1)
Paulette Brown – backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 8, 9)
Venetta Fields – backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 8, 9)
Bill Thedford – backing vocals (2, 3, 8)
Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals (5, 9)
Oren Waters – backing vocals (5, 9)
Bill Champlin – backing vocals (6)
Chuck "Fingers" Irwin – backing vocals (6)
Rosemary Butler – backing vocals (7, 8)

Production

Producer and Engineer – Bill Schnee
Assistant Engineers – Stephen Marcussen and Gabe Veltri
Mastered by Doug Sax and Mike Reese at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).
Design – Nancy Donald
Photography – Guy Bourdin
Management – Irving Azoff

References

1. ^{{cite web|last1=Koda|first1=Cub|title=Middle Man|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/middle-man-mw0000652253|website=AllMusic|accessdate=22 March 2018}}
2. ^[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=boz scaggs|chart=all}} Boz Scaggs Chart History], Billboard.com. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
3. ^¹{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r17458}}
4. ^¹{{cite journal|last=Hepworth|first=David|authorlink=David Hepworth|title=Boz Scaggs: Middle Man|journal=Smash Hits|issue=May 1–14, 1980|page=29}}

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Middle Man Lyrics

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