Celebrate Me Home | 
| Artist: Kenny Loggins
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 53248
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 34655
UPC: 074643465526
EAN: 0074643465526
ASIN: B00000259D
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Lady Luck | | • | If You Be Wise | | • | I Believe in Love | | • | Set It Free | | • | Why Do People Lie | | • | Enter My Dream | | • | I've Got the Melody (Deep in My Heart) | | • | Celebrate Me Home | | • | Daddy's Back | | • | You Don't Know Me |
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 Forget his '80s stuff, grab this CD and play it to death! October 5, 2005
Jeffrey L. Abrams (Philadelphia, PA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
Pop/Jazz/Rock Fusion Masterpiece January 17, 2002
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
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.
 Great music for nights by the fireplace December 7, 1999
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Mellow Smooth R&B/Pop Masterpiece December 8, 2004
Adam J. Byrne (Fairfield, CA...Cordelia Villiage)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This CD made a remarkable change of pace for the Loggins and Messina frontman. Honestly, I Do NOT like the L&M days, never have never will, but when you get down to the nuts and bolts...cut away the soundtrack trash, and pop-izms in Kenny's Career, you are left with soulful jazzy classics. In the case of Celebrate me Home, you have an album full of Soulful gems. Produced by the incomparable Phil Ramone, and jazzman Bob James, it was unavoidably soft. The record has a feel of a Journeyman settling in for a restful night. Every song here including the bouncy I Believe In Love, make for an amazingly mellow, sweet sounding journey. 45 minutes made it a perfect length and the vocals and instrumentation are flawless. I can't see any reason why this wouldnt be loved by many. I may get some flack on this one, but I Like Loggins the R&B man, not the rocker/country guy. That probably explains why The Unimaginable Life is my all time favorite Loggins CD. and why I don't own any of his 80's garbage...Save for Love Will Follow not much from that era excites me. But to each his own right? Check this out if you like mellow soulful pop/rock.
Jazzy Soulful West Coast masterpiece May 20, 2007
Stephen W. Low (Nelson, Nelson New Zealand)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
By 1977 when this album was released, Kenny Loggins was hot property by dint of his songwriting/singing and production as part of Loggins and Messina. His songs had shown increasing sophistication and and even on the last of the duo's records 'Native Sons' (itself a disappointment) Loggin's had some outstanding contributions. As it was, 'Celebrate me Home' was a magnificent collection of songs in the AOR/West Coast genre. Produced by Bob James of jazz piano fame, it had a jazzy, soulful, AOR production. All the songs stand alone as strong compositions with strong themes and competent lyrics. The instrumentation is innovative and colourful, with mandolins and other exotic instruments lying on top of the jazz/soul groove. The female back up singing on 'If you be wise' ( a Jimmy Webb composition) is spine tinglingly evocative and some of Loggin's own compositions are quite outstanding (Enter my dream, I believe in Love). So if you're looking at 70s/80s West Coast music this is up there on the pinnacle. There's no country flavour at all (this was in the twilight of the heyday of country rock) and Loggin's folk music roots aren't apparent either but surely contribute to the backbone of the magnificent song writing. Essential.
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