Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle

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Lyrics and Boz Scaggs background
Lido Shuffle written by David Paich / Boz Scaggs
Lyrics
"Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack
But that was all he missed
And he ain't comin' back
At a tombstone bar, in a juke joint car he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down, let 'em roll
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Lido will be runnin', havin' great big funnin' till he got the note
Sayin' toe the line or blow it and that was all she wrote
He'll be makin' like a bee line, headin' for the border line, goin' for broke
Sayin' one more hit ought to do it
This joint ain't nothin' to it
One more for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it
One last shot then we quit it
One more for the road
Lido
Woah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Woah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it"

Background on Boz Scaggs and the Lido Shuffle
"Barry Scott Interviews Boz Scaggs
Barry Scott: You met Steve Miller at the St Marks School at Texas in Dallas. You joined his band the Marksmen. After school you went to Europe and you were in bands like The Wigs and Mother Earth and even recorded a solo LP "Boz" in Sweden in 1965; Then you were in a group called "The Other Side" before returning to San Francisco in '67 where you met up with Steve Miller again and joined his band for their first two albums 'Children of the Future' and 'Sailor'.

Boz: Yes.

Barry Scott: I wanted to find out why you left the "Steve Miller Band" and signed with Atlantic as a solo artist in '68.

Boz: I'd been with Steve's organisation for about 9 or 10 months and it was just becoming apparent that there was a split, Steve was going one way and I was going another and it made the picture clearer for both of us as to where we were going and what we were doing. His vision became clear, he went on to become a power guitar trio after that. I stayed on in San Francisco and pursued my song writing. That led to eventually a contract with Atlantic as you mention.

Barry Scott: Who and what were your influences musically leading up to "Silk Degrees" ?

Boz: I always listened to soul stations at that time. I grew up in an environment of a lot of radio, a lot of music. I grew up in a small town near Dallas and the radio waves and just the general influence around there, rhythm and blues and blues music, was pretty strong. I was able to tune in to New Orleans influenced music. Its just where I gravitated. Its the music that I first learned to play on guitar and our first High School band was a rhythm and blues band. That's the music I followed. As that music became more complex and evolved into more of an urban kind of music, that's the way I went, that's where I learned more complex guitar chords and more complex harmonic information and patterned myself after vocalists that I heard on that side of the radio dial. That's the way I evolved through the 70's.
I made the "Slow Dancer" album with a Motown producer and Motown musicians who had migrated to Los Angeles at that time. And that opened the doors to the Los Angeles studio scene and session players. The musicians that I ended up working with on "Silk Degrees" were influenced very much by the same side of the radio dial, if you will, we just did what we thought was happening and what we liked to do and it reflected in a pretty timely album. I just think it was the right gumbo at the time.

BarryScott: David Paich, probably one of your biggest fans from what I hear from him.
Boz: That's mutual, David and I have had a lot of success together as songwriters and as friends. Our lives have run not exactly parallel courses, but we have been in touch and involved and working together for a long time. I consider it a very important and sort of magic relationship that we have. No one brings out the music in me more than David Paich.

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Barry Scott: Lets talk "Lido Shuffle", what is it all about ?
Boz: Oh I don't know, you know, its sort of a little throw-down, that's an impressionistic little thing about a character who is flying by the seat of his pants. That's probably as well as I can describe it.

Barry Scott: I read in I think it was a Rolling Stone book that listed the top 10 songs to pass the censors and "Lido Shuffle" is on there.
Boz: Hmmm, I can't comment. I don't know what lines they might have in mind or how they might arrive at that.

Barry Scott: I'm thinking its more like a 'Louie Louie' Kingsmen thing where they are just guessing at a lyric that might not be there.
Boz: I don't know, I cannot comment."
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Sgt (Join to see) Great beat.

Great song and singer, thank you for the share brother Kerry.