The Lancaster Performing Arts Center will host Loggins & Messina Oct. 11. For tickets, visit www.lpac.org or call (661) 723-5950.
There are certain welcoming voices in popular music that can be identified as soon as a song starts – get ready for the return of the most successful duo of the early 1970s, Loggins & Messina, a group whose most enduring songs “Danny’s Song,” “House at Pooh Corner” and “Your Mama Don’t Dance” among others were so well crafted that they have never gone away. Currently, Loggins & Messina find themselves rebuilding the personal connection that was lost long ago, and the Lancaster Performing Arts Center will feature one of their rare performances together.
When Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina first collaborated, the intent was for Messina, a well respected producer and former member of the acclaimed group Poco and legendary Buffalo Springfield, to produce the “unknown” Loggins as a solo artist. Their brief, yet red-hot collaboration and “accidental” partnership ultimately produced five original studio albums, a covers collection, a greatest hits disc and two live albums. Along the way, they became one of pop music’s classic duos and an era-defining act.
By 1977, the Loggins & Messina partnership had sold sixteen million albums, had become one of rock’s most popular draws, and seemingly overnight, the partnership was over. In the decades apart, Loggins established himself as a solo artist with a series of albums and Messina too recorded solo albums. When they reconnected, Loggins remarked, “As soon as we hit the harmonies, I was struck by the fact that I hadn’t heard that sound in a long time. There was something that in thirty plus years I had not been able to duplicate with anyone else. There was a spark that I’d completely forgotten about. It's still there!”
The three-piece Gabe Dixon Band will open for Loggins & Messina.
