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Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop)

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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!

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.

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.

has finally made it to CD. I don't have the CD yet, but I do have the original vinyl and cassette tape. I highly recommend this album, it's a great listen all the way through. I'm amazed how it has seemingly remained such a hidden gem. 'Someday', 'Sunset Woman', and 'Second Hand Lady' are all beautiful songs that I always enjoy hearing. Dave Loggins has also written hits for many other artists.

This is a great album! I love being able to locate CD's from my old albums. Oh, I remember Dave Loggins well. His easy style of singing and quiet background music is calming to a busy day. I remembered every song as I sang with Dave Loggins while it played through. Please come to Boston and Girl from Knowville remain my favorites.

This CD is a positive change and mellow. It's refreshing to listen to something other than rock-n-roll, loud, partying music sometimes. It's a good calm as you drive in to work or home.

This is one of the LP's in my collection that I have been looking for on CD for the longest time. Of course it contains the classic, "Please Come to Boston" but the other gems like "Girl for Knoxville Town" are super! If this is Dave's "apprentice" album, then he truly has become a "master journeyman" in the singer/songwriter genre.

blah blah blah. Good for you for not liking Dave's music and thinking his lyrics suffer. In my opinion Kenny loggins writes super cheesy songs. I'll take Dave anyday! Great songwriter. He's writes and plays like it is. Like love and life is.

Great album!

That is all!

Dave Loggins has a great voice and has written some wonderful songs, but his best album ever was "One Way Ticket to Paradise" - why won't someone re-release that? This'll have to do, I guess.

I have the album, the tape, and now the disc, it have been one of favorite albums since it first came out many years ago.