Loggins & Messina

After a spontaneous teaming on a satisfying first album, Sittin' In, Loggins and Messina
quickly turned themselves into a precision-tuned but insipid aggregation with as unerring
an instinct for spineless FM pop as Seals & Crofts or Don McLean. By their third album, Full
Sail, it was a tossup as to which had become harder to take: Kenny Loggins's corniness or
Jim Messina's machinelike aloofness. But on Mother Lode, unexpectedly, the tas... More >