From its brown-toned cover to its contents, Loggins & Messina's fourth studio album is a sober, low-key, reflective affair. The band's music, with its single flute, violin, and horn lines, directed by Messina's intricate guitar and mandolin playing, serves a series of mid-tempo tunes expressing a lot of quiet dissatisfaction signalled by titles like "Be Free," "Changes," and "Move On." As usual in a Jim Messina production, all of this is elegantly, tastefully accomplished, but one could hardly come away from the record feeling that all was well in the L&M camp. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Credits
- David Paich
- Keyboards
- Don Roberts
- Horn, Saxophone
- Larry Sims
- Bass
- David Wallace
- Synthesizer
- Corey Bailey
- Engineer
- Merle Brigante
- Drums
- Chris Brooks
- Koto
- Jon Clarke
- Flute, Horn
- Al Garth
- Violin, Horn
- Milt Holland
- Percussion
- Alex Kazanegras
- Engineer
- Kenny Loggins
- Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Harmonica
- Loggins & Messina
- Main Performer
- Jim Messina
- Bass, Producer, Vocals, Mandolin, Guitar
- Victor Feldman
- Percussion

















