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Jim Messina helped launch Kenny Loggins. Now he’s playing in Wayne
When Kenny Loggins arrived at Jim Messina’s home, he had shaggy hair, a scruffy beard and braces on his teeth. He had come to play music and hadn’t even brought a guitar. Messina, already a veteran of Buffalo Springfield and Poco , thought someone was playing a joke on him. “I’m wondering, am I being put on here? I wasn’t sure what was going on,” he said in a recent phone interview. He lent the visitor a guitar and recorded his songs. Loggins later told Messina that he did own a guitar that night. But he was embarrassed to bring the old thing along. Still, Loggins had an impressive voice. There was more here to work with than that first impression suggested, Messina thought. He decided to help Loggins assemble a band. He helped arrange the music. He would prepare the young songwriter for a career and produce his first album. Then he’d get back to producing other people. Instead, he became half of Loggins and Messina. It was an unexpected turn in a musical life that had already put him in the studio with Neil Young and Stephen Stills and on stage with Poco. The man who co-wrote “Your
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‘Mud-pie’ roads, library moves, orchard closes
The following excerpts from The Millerton News were compiled by Kathleen Spahn and Rhiannon Leo-Jameson of the North East-Millerton Library. Herzog Passes on $498,370 “Mud-Pie” Projects in Townships. A $498,370 “mud-pie” road program for Dutchess County was approved last week by Lester W. Herzog, upstate WPA administrator. Part...
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Finding The Hudson Valley
Grammy-winning fiddler Jason Carter brings his band to TEMPO in Kingston
Grammy-winning fiddler Jason Carter will bring the Jason Carter Band to TEMPO Performing Arts Center in Kingston on Friday, Nov. 13. The performance is part… The post Grammy-winning fiddler Jason Carter brings his band to TEMPO in Kingston first appeared on Finding The Hudson Valley .