The Essential Boz Scaggs

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic considered the album to be superior to the 1997 compilation My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology and that the record was "something close to a truly essential Boz Scaggs".{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002587245 |title=Boz Scaggs - The Essential Boz Scaggs |publisher=AllMusic}}

All tracks written by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

Disc one

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| extra_column = Album

| title1 = I'll Be Long Gone

| extra1 = Boz Scaggs

| length1 = 4:04

| title2 = Loan Me a Dime

| writer2 = Fenton Robinson

| extra2 = Boz Scaggs

| length2 = 13:04

| title3 = Runnin' Blue

| writer3 = Scaggs, Pat O'Hara

| extra3 = Boz Scaggs & Band

| length3 = 3:58

| title4 = We Were Always Sweethearts

| extra4 = Moments

| length4 = 3:30

| title5 = Painted Bells

| extra5 = Moments

| length5 = 4:03

| title6 = Near You

| extra6 = Moments

| length6 = 5:00

| title7 = Dinah Flo

| extra7 = My Time

| length7 = 3:05

| title8 = Might Have to Cry

| extra8 = My Time

| length8 = 4:05

| title9 = You Make It So Hard (To Say No)

| extra9 = Slow Dancer

| length9 = 3:34

| title10 = Slow Dancer

| writer10 = Scaggs, George Daly

| extra10 = Slow Dancer

| length10 = 3:15

| title11 = What Can I Say

| writer11 = Scaggs, David Paich

| extra11 = Silk Degrees

| length11 = 3:01

| title12 = It's Over

| writer12 = Scaggs, Paich

| extra12 = Silk Degrees

| length12 = 2:52

| title13 = Harbor Lights

| extra13 = Silk Degrees

| length13 = 5:58

| title14 = Lowdown

| writer14 = Scaggs, Paich

| length14 = 5:18

| extra14 = Silk Degrees

| title15 = Lido Shuffle

| writer15 = Scaggs, Paich

| length15 = 3:43

| extra15 = Silk Degrees

| title16 = We're All Alone

| length16 = 4:14

| extra16 = Silk Degrees

| title17 = Hard Times

| length17 = 4:30

| extra17 = Down Two Then Left

| total_length = 1:17:15

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Disc two

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| extra_column = Album

| title1 = Jojo

| writer1 = Scaggs, David Foster, David Lasley

| length1 = 5:55

| extra1 = Middle Man

| title2 = Isn't It Time

| length2 = 4:55

| extra2 = Middle Man

| title3 = Simone

| writer3 = Scaggs, Foster

| length3 = 5:10

| extra3 = Middle Man

| title4 = Breakdown Dead Ahead

| writer4 = Scaggs, Foster

| length4 = 4:37

| extra4 = Middle Man

| title5 = Miss Sun

| writer5 = Paich

| extra5 = Hits!

| length5 = 5:32

| title6 = Look What You've Done to Me

| writer6 = Scaggs, Foster

| length6 = 5:18

| extra6 = Hits!

| title7 = Heart of Mine

| writer7 = Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff

| length7 = 4:14

| extra7 = Other Roads

| title8 = Some Change

| length8 = 6:12

| extra8 = Some Change

| title9 = Sierra

| length9 = 3:44

| extra9 = Some Change

| title10 = As the Years Go Passing By

| note10 = Live

| writer10 = Don Robey

| length10 = 4:46

| extra10 = My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology

| title11 = It All Went Down the Drain

| extra11 = Come On Home

| writer11 = Earl King

| length11 = 5:34

| title12 = Miss Riddle

| extra12 = Dig

| writer12 = Scaggs, Paich, Michael Rodriguez

| length12 = 6:28

| title13 = I Just Go

| extra13 = Dig

| length13 = 3:37

| title14 = Thanks to You

| writer14 = Scaggs, Paich

| extra14 = Dig

| length14 = 4:50

| title15 = Gone Baby Gone

| extra15 = Memphis

| length15 = 3:35

| total_length = 1:18:33

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• Boz Scaggs – guitar, vocals
• Booker T & The MG's - feature artists (Vocals) (track 10 disc 2)
• Fred Tackett – guitar
• Louis Shelton – guitar
• David Hungate – bass
• Jeff Porcaro — drums
• David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
• Vincent DeRosa – horns
• Jim Horn – horns
• Paul Hubinon – horns
• Dick Hyde – horns
• Plas Johnson – horns
• Tom Scott – horns
• Bud Shank – horns

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