Motherlode

Loggins & Messina | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 19, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000253E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,302 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

A Top Ten hit for the boys in 1974, featuring some of Jim Messina's most ambitious playing and production. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking!, November 20, 2001

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Eric R. Last "misterrockobscurities" (San Bruno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motherlode (Audio CD)

My favorite Loggins and Messina album. This is not the sort of breezy pop music this duo is known for. Rather, "Mother Lode" features some complex, intricate instrumental passages that primarily showcase country instruments (fiddle, mandolin), but with an effect that is closer to world music, sometimes with a vaguely middle-eastern feel. I initially owned this album on vinyl, and it is the first 4 songs, that originally constituted side 1, that enthralled me then and that continue to motivate me to pull the CD out and play it again.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So, you're curious about L & M?, May 24, 2003

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" "james2001" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motherlode (Audio CD)

I'm not the be-all, end-all expert on this comparatively short-lived collaboration. Hell, I only have one other L&M album. But I can tell you this: This album, compared to almost any other - from ANY artist - deserves a place in the coveted "disc 1" position of the old CD player. From the opening strains of "Growin'" to the haunting harmonica ending of "Fever Dream", this album, more than any other, defined my appreciation of music, and made me understand why some people are destined to be bricklayers or accountants, while others are destined to be songwriters and performers. There're too many albums out there written and performed by folks who should have been laying brick or crunching month-end numbers. Not here; this album gives a rare glimpse of a duo who were made for what they're doing.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked, Undervalued, But Still A Pop Music Masterpiece, January 1, 2004

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"kdhewitt2" (Queensbury, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motherlode (Audio CD)

Fine songwriting, produced with perfection, and timelessly listenable.

When this recording was released Loggins and Messina would soon break up. You'd never know it.

Many excellent recordings suffer from not having enough drama; an all-over sameness of sound, tension without release, bad pacing. I could describe many qualities that make recordings with wonderful parts not wonderful as a whole. In contrast, Mother Lode is the complete package, enjoyable in its full presentation as it is in its individual parts. A real gem.

I loved the L.A. country-rock style of the early albums. The fine crafting of songs. This effort, while not as commercially viable as its predecessors, still resonates today in a way that the more popular Loggins and Messina recordings do not. I urge you to give it a place in your CD collection.