Celebrate Me Home (Stereo & Mono) Review

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(More customer reviews)If only the rest of his solo career had built on the promise of this jazzy masterpiece....For some reason (probably because Columbia's A&R guys told him to), Loggins teamed up with Bob James who produced (along with Phil Ramone), arranged and staffed the album, and the results are stunning.The song mix is perfect, the groove shifts from ballad to pop to shoop-shoop, yet stays within a range of common appeal that makes the whole seem greater and more thoughtful than the sum of its component tracks.

Loggins can write when he wants to (and when he is not working out his realtionship therapy on disk like so many of his recent works), and his songs played by the likes of Eric Gale, Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason, James, Hiram Bullock, Robben Ford, and other "jazz planet" guys of the '70s sound fabulous.And the album is so well engineered that it sounds arguably better on LP than on CD (something you analog audiophiles can verify).

Even if the words "Kenny Loggins" cause the post-disco, movie-soundtrack bile to rise in yor throat (a widely-held, but I think unfair, sentiment), anyone who is a fan of contempo jazz vocals must give this album a try.It is almost 30 years old and it still holds up, in the timeless way that really good music should.It is one of my true Desert Island disks, and it might become one of yours, too.

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Released by Columbia Records 1977 - 7" 45rpm Vinyl BLACK VINYL / WHITE LABEL Side 1: Celebrate Me Home (Mono) Side 2: Celebrate Me Home (Stereo) Release # 3-10652

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