Finale (album)

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Finale
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Live album by
ReleasedJanuary 1977
Recorded1975–1976
Genre Rock
Length77:22
Label Columbia
Producer Jim Messina
Loggins and Messina chronology
Native Sons
(1976)
Finale
(1977)
The Best of Friends
(1977)

Finale is the second live double album (and eighth overall release) by singer/songwriter duo Loggins and Messina, released in early 1977. Tracks on the album are from performances while touring in 1975 and 1976. [1]

Contents

The duo had parted by the time this album was released, and it was considered by some purely as a profit-taking move intended to see what money could be made before the pair faded from the public mind and in that light it can be considered a Columbia 'corporate' release, rather than one intended by artists Kenny Loggins or Jim Messina.

This was the last album by Kenny Loggins shortly before his first solo album, Celebrate Me Home , was released April 1977.

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Track listing

Disc one

Side One

  1. "Introduction" – 1:42
  2. "Travelin' Blues" (Jim Messina) – 3:07
  3. "Medley:" – 6:34
  4. "Keep Me in Mind" (Messina) – 4:04
  5. "Pretty Princess" (Messina, Murray MacLeod) – 6:40

Side Two

  1. "Brighter Days" (Loggins, Donna Lyn George) – 3:39
  2. "Be Free" (Messina) – 7:06
  3. "Peacemaker" (Loggins, John Townsend, Ed Sanford) – 5:00
  4. "Growin'" (Loggins, Ronnie Wilkins) – 2:43

Disc two

Side Three

  1. "Motel Cowboy" (Loggins, Messina) – 2:57
  2. "Country Medley:" – 7:26
  3. "Oklahoma, Home of Mine" (Loggins, Messina) – 3:16
  4. "Changes" (Messina) – 4:29

Side Four

  1. "You Need a Man" (Messina) – 9:20
  2. "Lately My Love" (Messina) – 3:37
  3. "Rock & Roll Medley:" – 5:42

Personnel

Charts

AlbumBillboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1977Pop Albums83

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References

  1. "Loggins and Messina - Finale (vinyl, LP, Album)". Discogs. Retrieved 10 June 2017.