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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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Madam C.J. Walker: How a St. Louis Washerwoman Built a Hair Care Empire
In 1900, the US census listed Sarah Breedlove as a laundress in St. Louis, a job that sometimes paid her as little as $1 a day (National Archives). Less than two decades later, as Madam C.J. Walker, she ran a hair care company with thousands of sales agents, lived in a Hudson Valley mansion designed by a Black architect, and was described at her death as the richest Black woman in the world (Indiana Historical Society, Snopes, citing the New York Age).
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At This New Jersey School, You Learn to Carve and Burn Designs Into Wood
Twelve years. That is how long one student has kept returning to a single New Jersey classroom to turn plain blocks of wood into art. The lessons start with something surprisingly humble. Before anyone carves a single curve, they learn how to sharpen their tools. Then come the gouges, the...
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Hip-hop feud heats up New York governor's race