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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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Moonrise Bagels Pitches Investors on ‘Shark Tank’
Jeremy Rhodes picked up baking during the pandemic, and on New Year’s Eve 2020 he was prepping bagels for a New Year’s Day brunch. He was also making pizza for dinner, and the extra sauce got him thinking. So he stuffed the sauce into the bagels. Almost six years later, that experiment has landed Rhodes […] The post Moonrise Bagels Pitches Investors on ‘Shark Tank’ appeared first on The Overlook .
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