Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop)

Dave Loggins | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Label: Epic
• ASIN: B000U6GFUS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,615,043 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sin that has finally been corrected!!!, October 15, 2006

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L. Jaffe (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apprentice (Audio CD)

This, Dave Loggins' second solo album (his first being "Personal Belongings" for Vanguard), is finally available in its entirety on compact disc. "Apprentice" not only showcases Dave's beautiful "Please Come To Boston", a standard by any measure, but his thoughtful "Sunset Woman" and an overlooked gem, "My Father's Fiddle". The production on this album, released in 1974, is top-notch and features some of Nashville's finest studio players for that time. Thank you, Wounded Bird Records, for correcting such a monumental oversight and getting this classic album to the public!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back in time., September 25, 2007

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HPR (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Apprentice (Audio CD)

This is an album that may be judged differently as a present day release. This work does not lend itself to country radio, or even classic singer-songwriter status. It puts you firmly in a dark, barn-wood paneled bar, perhaps cavernous, and only partially filled. The music resonates off of the walls, and tells what are probably accurate stories found in likely rural, mid-70s taverns - the real ones, with red-shaded lamps, dimly-lit rooms, serious drinkers, and disenchanted patrons transitioning uneasily from the 60s to the very different 70s. The words and music exist as a total package, and are best heard and absorbed not literally, but as a complement to all of the elements of these locales and reasons that brought people here. If one can listen to it as such, it is a gem.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Apprentice - a time capsule, October 9, 2007

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Chukker (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apprentice (Audio CD)

I've been looking for this album to be rereleased to CD for a long, long time. I've got the vinyl from my college years in the 70's and listened to it over and over while I taught myself the guitar licks. "So You Could Not Get To Me" is worth buying the CD, alone. I've read the review that pounds this artist and CD. Not the critic I'd like listening to my songs, either.

"Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop)" is a touchstone to 70's music with "Please Come To Boston" as the hit. While not as profound a writer as James Taylor or as popular as Loggins & Messina, he also wrote "Pieces of April" most notably done by Three Dog Night. This album is for those of us who enjoy acoustic guitar, a melancholic voice and a memory of a lover who moved on too soon.