Album · Boz Scaggs
Middle Man by Boz Scaggs
Middle Man is an album by Boz Scaggs, released in 1980. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Breakdown Dead Ahead”, on 1 list with a best position of #422.
Middle Man, Boz Scaggs' ninth studio album, came out on Columbia in 1980, and it's the sound of a man going back to the formula that made him. The Steve Miller Band alumnus once again called in members of Toto as his studio crew, the same players he'd leaned on for Silk Degrees and Down Two Then Left, and this time he split the songwriting with them too. What comes out is slick, soul-soaked rock with a hard radio shine: Toto's session-pro muscle under Scaggs' smooth, knowing croon.
It paid off. The album went platinum and cracked the top ten, and "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo" both went top 40. Then Scaggs went quiet: it would be eight years before Other Roads followed, with the same crew still on board.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Middle Man on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breakdown Dead Ahead | 1 | #422 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.