Mother Lode

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 43:59

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Ghostbear

While it's certainly true that this album is darker than any of their other works in its lyric content, it also marks the high water mark of Jim Messina's production, arranging and instrumental work. If any of their albums can be said to belong predominantly to Messina, this is it. This album includes the most complex exploratory instrumentals that Jimmy ever arranged - and they are arranged; no outer space noodling here - and they are brilliant. If you are looking for Kenny's vocals and songwriting to dominate, check out their first collaboration, "Sittin' In." But if you want to hear the mastermind behind L&M, look no further.

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From its brown-toned cover to its contents, Loggins & Messina’s fourth studio album is a sober, low-key, reflective affair. The band’s music, with its single flute, violin, and horn lines, directed by Messina’s intricate guitar and mandolin playing, serves a series of mid-tempo tunes expressing a lot of quiet dissatisfaction signalled by titles like “Be Free,” “Changes,” and “Move On.” As usual in a Jim Messina production, all of this is elegantly, tastefully accomplished, but one could hardly come away from the record feeling that all was well in the L&M camp. – William Ruhlmann