Album Review - Loggins & Messina - The Best: Sittin' In Again

In 1972, fresh from stints with both Buffalo Springfield and Poco, Jim
Messina signed a deal to produce six albums for Columbia Records. His
first foray was meant merely to showcase the talent of an
up-and-coming songwriter named Kenny Loggins, but the resulting album
Sittin' In achieved such widespread commercial success that the
partnership quickly became an ongoing enterprise. Indeed, between 1972
and 1977, the duo issued five studio outings, two concert recordings,
and a greatest hits retrospective before going their separate ways.
Nearly 30 years later, the pair have set aside their differences,
rekindled their friendship, and announced a 40-show reunion tour. In
anticipation of their country-wide excursion, they dusted off their
career retrospective The Best of Friends and altered its contents to
produce The Best: Sittin' In Again. Long-time fans undoubtedly will be
annoyed at the exclusion of a trio of tracks -- Peace of Mind, My
Music, and Thinking of You -- which had been featured on the former
outing. However, from the driving funk of Good Friend to the Paul
Simon-meets-The Eagles bounce of Listen to a Country Song, the new
package essentially provides a more balanced examination of the
cooperative's Crosby, Still, and Nash-inflected career.

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