From schoolyard friendships to a late discovery of Neil Young, the man whose nickname of Bosley was, thankfully, shortened, talks the university of life, generational renewal and getting better, even at 74. He’s not for the money, but he is for the show, so no more waiting for the go ... William Royce “Boz” Scaggs, is, appropriately enough for a man who grew up in Piano, Texas, a quietly spoken gentleman. And not just because he apologises for a minor phone snafu that delayed

BOZ SCAGGS Out Of The Blues (Concord) Well, he’s not you know. Out of the blues, that is. You don’t tend to run out of that stuff as you get older, either musically or subject-wise – oh lordy me, ain’t that the truth. Not that Boz Scaggs dwells on, or indeed dives too deeply into, the darker pits of angst or ennui in his songs; he never has. The lyrical blues of this 74-year-old are more in the realms of love perplexing as much as arriving/leaving, and life perplexing in equa