Boz Scaggs is routing the Rhythm Review 2026 through Texas on back-to-back nights — Austin on October 1, then The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on Friday, October 2. Seven o’clock. He grew up in Dallas, absorbed blues and R&B in Texas as a teenager, and went on to make music that sounded unlike anyone else doing it. Watching him return to the state with a catalog that stretches from Silk Degrees to his latest album Detour is not a nostalgia trip. It’s more complicated than that.
About Boz Scaggs
Born William Royce Scaggs in Ohio in 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, played in Dallas combos as a teenager, worked as a journeyman musician in Madison and Austin, traveled in Europe and the Middle East, recorded in Stockholm, and eventually landed in San Francisco — where he rejoined Steve Miller, a bandmate from their early combo days in The Ardells, before launching his solo career in 1969.
Silk Degrees (1976) changed the scale of things. It hit number two on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 115 weeks. Three Top 40 singles came off it, including the Grammy-winning “Lowdown,” co-written with David Paich — one of the session musicians Scaggs had hand-picked for those recordings. Paich, David Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro went on to form Toto. It’s one of those production footnotes that sounds like music-industry trivia until you think about it for a second.
He followed with Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, both platinum, and hit singles “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” “Jo Jo,” and “Look What You’ve Done to Me.” He stepped away from recording for most of the ’80s, opened Slim’s nightclub in San Francisco, and returned to performing in 1988 — maintaining a consistent recording and touring schedule from there. Speak Low topped the Billboard Jazz chart. Out of the Blues (2018) returned to his R&B roots. His latest album, Detour, is out on Concord Records.
The Venue
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion is a 16,500-capacity amphitheater in The Woodlands, part of the Xfinity Concert Series. The Rhythm Review 2026 routes through concert halls in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and El Paso before arriving here — the Woodlands date is the one that opens up to amphitheater scale. These songs were built for it.
Tickets
General on-sale begins Friday, May 8 at 10 AM local time. Venue policy: all bags and purses must be smaller than 4.5 by 6.5 inches unless clear. See all upcoming Houston concerts on our calendar.