ROGUE REVIEW: Crosby Loggins
At this point, Crosby Loggins is something of a Rogue Festival regular. At the Bring Your Own Venue portion of the Rogue anyway. He debuted in Fresno last year at Fagan's for a BYOV Rogue show and was back Friday night doing the same at Full Circle Brewing Co.
Crosby - the son of pop soundtrack God Kenny Loggins - has changed a bit since last year's show. His band has a new name - The Light, rather than The Name Droppers. They've taken on more of a jam-band feel, as opposed to the more slick pop/rock they played last year. (Either sounds good, for the record). But - and this is the big but - there's still PLENTY of his dad in him. Part of being a Loggins is having the gift of crafting a good pop song, I guess. And Crosby has that skill and the Loggins voice.
His set started out acoustic. Just him and his violin player (who played the heck of that violin). Later the entire band came up and filled out the sound, moving with ease from the nice three-minute pop tracks to the let's-get-lost-in-the-music seven-minute jams.
Crosby & Co., don't have another Rogue show, but there are already whispers that they'll be back at Full Circle in the coming months, so watch for that.
Tonight, the also jam band-ish Super Lucky Catz take the stage at 8 p.m. And Bobby Joe Neely, the one-man blues band, plays for happy hour at 5 p.m. On Sunday, Roger Perry heads a tribute to Leonard Cohen.
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Comments:
I went in with preconceived notions (and that song from Top Gun in my head), but I was pleasantly surprised by Crosby et. al. The violin player was ridiculously good - he really stole the show. But you could tell the other guys were having fun up there, too, and that's fun to watch.
Plus the drummer was hot.
Posted by: Heather at March 3, 2007 11:36 AM
Yes, yes, besides the drummer being hot, there was something else particularly notable about the show- a certain pop vibe that definitely appealed to the 35+ crowd, which described most in attendance. At times, Crosby sounded a bit too much like his dad, but the jam took over, lead by his underrated rhythm section - bass and drummer were exeptionally tight. Both guitars were under-amplified, so it was difficult to comment on them. And when the amazing violin player switched to mandolin, there was no amplification at all. But the anthemic "March on America" was truly the highlight of the show - and it provided a great vehicle for individual solos. By the way, Crosby is named after Bing, not his hometown favorite David - although much of his music had the same feel as if it had been performed by the latter Crosby's group, "CPR". A better mix of a bit less percussion and more guitar would have elevated this show from very good to outstanding - regardless, still the best $5.00 concert I've heard in a decade.
Posted by: james at March 4, 2007 5:56 PM
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