Celebrate Me Home

Kenny Loggins

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Original Release Date: April 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMXZ6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,130 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget his '80s stuff, grab this CD and play it to death!, October 5, 2005

By	Jeffrey L. Abrams "music lover" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Celebrate Me Home (Audio CD)

If only the rest of his solo career had built on the promise of this jazzy masterpiece.... For some reason (probably because Columbia's A&R guys told him to), Loggins teamed up with Bob James who produced (along with Phil Ramone), arranged and staffed the album, and the results are stunning. The song mix is perfect, the groove shifts from ballad to pop to shoop-shoop, yet stays within a range of common appeal that makes the whole seem greater and more thoughtful than the sum of its component tracks.

Loggins can write when he wants to (and when he is not working out his realtionship therapy on disk like so many of his recent works), and his songs played by the likes of Eric Gale, Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason, James, Hiram Bullock, Robben Ford, and other "jazz planet" guys of the '70s sound fabulous. And the album is so well engineered that it sounds arguably better on LP than on CD (something you analog audiophiles can verify).

Even if the words "Kenny Loggins" cause the post-disco, movie-soundtrack bile to rise in yor throat (a widely-held, but I think unfair, sentiment), anyone who is a fan of contempo jazz vocals must give this album a try. It is almost 30 years old and it still holds up, in the timeless way that really good music should. It is one of my true Desert Island disks, and it might become one of yours, too.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pop/Jazz/Rock Fusion Masterpiece, January 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Celebrate Me Home (Audio CD)

Kenny Loggins was not on the top of my list the day I wandered into the record store in 1977, but I walked out with Celebrate Me Home under my arm and I've been enjoying it ever since. This is one of those uniquely timed recordings in an artists career when all the pieces work perfectly together. For his first solo album he was in a creative groove and surrounded by some of the hottest fusion jazz/rock studio musicians around at the time. This entire album clicks like a fine watch all the way through with a well balanced variety of song styles from sweet to hot. Over the years Kenny's albums have come and gone from my collection, but for me this one is in with the "stranded on a desert isle" section. A must-have Pop/Jazz/Rock Fusion milestone and always fun to hear.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music for nights by the fireplace, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Celebrate Me Home (Audio CD)

This CD fits in with the mellow rock sounds that is strongly identified with the '70s. Having said that, this is a very solid work. The best cuts are If You Be Wise, Why Do People Lie, I've Got the Melody (a duet with Patti Austin), and You Don't Know Me. Loggins' rendition of I Believe in Love rivals the version of this song done by Barbra Streisand on A Star is Born.

This is a great CD for just letting your mind drift & be carried away by the music and melody...or to indulge in a romantic evening with the person of your choice.