The first Boz Scaggs album I ever owned was, naturally, Silk Degrees (1976). I was so intrigued by his talent and his unique voice that I started going from record store to record store (those were the pre-Amazon days) to track down his earlier works. Slow Dancer was the first such album I found. I fell in love especially with the title track and Sail on White Moon. I also enjoyed Hercules and I Got Your Number. Heck I actually could listen to the album repeatedly all day. Every cut has its own special quality and flavor. Though I was only 16 years old, I really "got" Boz and his music.I moved to the States when I was 19 and was no longer listening to Boz Scaggs regularly, as I did during the preceding few years. Unfortunately, it was precisely during this time that Boz's star began to fall. Between my preoccupation with my new life in this country and Boz's getting less air play, his music gradually drifted out of my life.Before moving to his country, I taped all of Boz's songs from the albums I had been lucky enough to find in the stores: My Time (the original album, not the anthology), Moments, Boz Scaggs, and maybe one more really old album. At any rate, Slow Dancer was always my favorite of all the pre-Silk Degrees albums.A couple of weeks ago I was digging through my cassettes in the car and stumbled upon those very "compilation" Boz Scaggs tapes that I personally made. It's not as if I hadn't been listening to those tapes every now and then but something happened to me that day. I started to yearn to have Boz's voice back in my life--to enrich and enhance it, as it did so very effectively when I was 16 and living in a foreign land.As a result of this reunion, I purchased Slow Dancer on CD along with CDs of his earlier works. I even had to resort to buying "My Time" and "Moments" directly from a Japanese merchant because I couldn't find them here. How I wish I still had all those vinyl records with me. I know they're worth quite a bit now.Anyway, the main thing I wanted to say here, before I started reminiscing and rambling, is that Slow Dancer has aged like the finest of fine wines. I actually appreciate it more now as a more mature person than when I was 16. I am feeling Boz and his music in a different way. I also feel very blessed that, even as a 16 year-old, I had enough of a discriminating taste for such wonderful talent as Boz Scaggs. I could never possibly outgrow Boz and his music. Whether I'm in my teens or in my 40s, I'll always love Boz's voice and music. I'm really glad he's back in my life.