Full Sail - LOGGINS & MESSINA***

Lahaina/Travelin' Blues/My Music/A Love Song/You Need A Man/Coming To You/Watching The River Run/ Pathway To Glory/Didn't Know You When/Sailin' The Wind

The soft-rock duo Loggins & Messina were enormously popular in the States during the early seventies, but were virtually unknown in the UK. Full Sail continued their winning streak. (US:10)

“I guess they're going for some kind of tropical feel on this album. It doesn't work. A case in point is Lahaina, which uses a Caribbean style musical background, while singing about a location in Hawaii. There's an overriding insincerity that just kills this album. Pathway To Glory offers some musical hope, but it simply comes too late to save an otherwise manufactured sounding effort. Pass this one by.”

“A wildly uneven album, full of undeveloped songs. Probably, they should have been a little bit more choosy, concerning the musical material as well.

“On the first two albums they played primarily light pop music, with enticing bits of country and calypso thrown in to the mix to keep it interesting. On Full Sail they begin to stretch out with lengthier instrumental passages that have hints of country-jazz fusion.”

“Loggins and Messina were two talented artists working together rather than a real duo. They each wrote soft rock material of a high standard, their songs synergised by tasty horn and woodwind arrangements, largely driven by Messina. On this set he tends to lead the way.”

“Full Sail is a solid album by Loggins and Messina that has some terrific music on it. Yes, they took some chances as they branched out on this album, but it all holds its own very well even all these years later.”

“I feel that this was one of their best albums. It is still as comforting to listen to today as when it first came out. Mellow and up beat, this is a great collection of some of their most memorable songs.”

“It's impossible to feel sad or angry while listening to this bright, carefree album. Pathway To Glory is not what I would call a dark exception; however, it is an introspective and haunting piece, and though beautifully arranged and performed, it's not a fit for this sunny themed album.”