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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

Boz Scaggs

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Boz Scaggs
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 8
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Canton
Ohio
William Royce Scaggs
Years
Transformed
Nerve
Shot
Charles
Shots
Concert
Create
Electricity
Heard
Rays
Stills
Concerts
Still
Nerves
Fried
Trying
Fifteen
Endings

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