After another hiatus from recording, his next album, "Dig", got good reviews, although the CD was released on an unfortunate date September 11, 2001. In May 2003, Scaggs released "But Beautiful", a collection of jazz standards that debuted at number one on the jazz chart. In 2008 he released "Speak Low", which he described in the liner notes as "a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored." During 2004, he released a DVD and a live 16-track CD "Greatest Hits Live" that was recorded August 2003 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.