Kenny Loggins

All I want is the truth
I guess that's just too much to ask of you
Cause every time we come face to face
It takes me back in time and space

Girl I can hardly breathe
It's like you got a hold of my heart
And you're tearing it out of me

Here I'm never getting over you
I got one shot
I know what I gotta do

All that I need's
A second of silence
A moment of grace
A breath of clean air
In a wide open place
With a blue horizon slidin' into view

A hundred miles of highway'll
Make a new man of me
With nothing but beginnings as far as I can see
Girl I know the place I'm comin' to
It's just a years worth of distance from you

Don't know what it's gonna take
But from here on
I'm runnin' on blind faith
"N the only way I'm getting' through
Is to walk on from now on
Without you

All that I need's
A second of silence
A moment of grace
A breath of clean air
In a wide open place
With a blue horizon slidin' into view

A hundred miles of highway'll
Make a new man of me
With nothing but beginnings as far as I can see
Girl I know the best thing I can do
It's just a years worth of distance from you

Everything you were to me
Everything you touch
I oughta hate you girl
But I still love you too much

A hundred miles of highway'll
Make a new man of me
With nothing but beginnings as far as the eye can see
Girl I know the place I'm comin' to

It's just a years worth of distance from you
To build up my resisitance
I'll take a years worth of distance
Distance from you

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, WA in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, CA when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late ‘60s he was based in Pasadena, studying at Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade, Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of “Danny’s Song,” a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina. He also spent time with a short-lived group called Second Helping, and was a member of the stage incarnation of the Electric Prunes during a later phase of that group’s history.

Loggins was proficient on the guitar and piano, but it was his songwriting that allowed him to make his first lasting impression on the music industry. He took a job as a staff writer for Wingate Music, for $100.00 a week, and later that year four of his songs ended up on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy. This event was particularly fortuitous, as that album was the first release by the newly reconstituted version of the group, and included what proved to be their biggest hit, “Mr. Bojangles.” The presence of the latter helped make Uncle Charlie one of the group’s biggest selling long-players; and the exposure generated a second hit in the form of Loggins’ own “House at Pooh Corner.”

The success of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recordings brought Loggins to the attention of former Poco member Jim Messina, who was working as a staff producer at CBS. It was Messina’s intention to produce Loggins' debut album, but he also ended up playing and singing on the record, and it worked out so well that the two ended up in a duo. Loggins & Messina were among the most popular folk-based soft rock acts of the first half of the ‘70s and enjoyed a four-year string of successful albums.

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