European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes entertainment May Kenny Joggins on Zisow by Frank Spotnitz United press International when Kenny logo ins you can almost hear the melodic curves of his singing he slides effortlessly from one scale to the gives it a hard Edge As his Pace then pulls you in with an quiet intensity at the endow a Loggins California Good looks and sensitive ballads have made him a schoolgirls but underneath the polished veneer is a songwriter of considerable ability and a Singer of even greater he is equally comfortable in sputtering rockers like in alright or last years hit mid Tempo num Bers such As this is it and what fool or aching like celebrate me Home from his first Solo up Back in with his new Vox Loggins is for the first time truly on his he started out As a Solo act in but he and produce Engineer Jim Messina clicked so Well they be came a duo that lasted four producing a string of including Dannys song and your mama dont Sinck the Messina has faded from the limelight but Loggins has recorded a remarkable series of finely crafted pop All were made with a product who helps the artist pick the the arrange musicians for the first the hit maker is his own producer and he loves having a producer is sort of like being a Painter and hiring someone to stand behind you and telling you what colors to Loggins at a certain once youve been painting for a few you might have a pretty Good idea of what colors you want to use on your you also might want to take responsibility for the colors of your paint its More its More he brought in several guest vocalists owe a whole Bunch of people a lot of including Philip Bai Koldra and Bunny Debarge and the Pointer who make a Nice counterpoint to Loggins on in Gonna do it perhaps because of the unexpectedly huge Commer Cial Success of Loggins has an unusually Posi Tive attitude toward music videos and the marriage of music and film in the music and the visual can equal a really Strong one two where the visual without the Kenny formerly of log gins and has released his first Solo Vox music is if you write the right song and it it can be a he hitting that last word with the skill of a the classic example is that scene in the Way we where the scene was if you put the music with its a the music then becomes stronger in Peoples minds because of that emotional it All equals something bigger than either was without that As eloquent a defense of Rock music sound tracks and music videos As will come from a Rock Many of whom feel threatened by the new Loggins said he has received Only a hand Ful of offers to write film songs since those he has been offered mainly Are teen exploitation most of them Are just so he non scripts with i would love to get hooked into a really Strong like the breakfast club or some he is in rehearsals for a full scale concert which he has mixed feelings about because it will take him away from his two Ages 3 and and who collaborates on Many of Loggins Loggins estimates that at least half his cur rent audience is not familiar with songs from the log gins and Messina Hes not especially Happy about because i still love the old material Loggins decision to Wear his Beard at the Start of his career turns out to have been he has be come so identified with it when he shaved it off for the Back cover of 1978s nigh watch few of his fans recognized he has taken the whiskers off since but Only its an old show Biz axiom if you Start your career with a it has to stay he those that Start without beards can grow them during their career and nothing being identified closely with a Beard has its Adan if i wanted to go somewhere and Cool i could shave my Beard off and be completely Loggins i like that has the Yuppie Lassord the Urban Cowboy t by Joe Edwards associated press he Urban Cowboy who donned Western hat and Levis to ride mechanical bulls with Buckskin bravado has traded his boots for a pair of Gucci and an evening of White wine and the it has been Lassord by the left behind is a Trail of a purchased country music As the rougher edges of Honky Tonk that captivated a generation of rebellious City kids have Given Way to More refined its been displaced by the Yuppie thing As something people want to says Richard Peterson of Vanderbilt just a Brief ride in a pickup truck from Nashville famed recording its the preppie five or 10 years it Means dressing More going to fancier urbane not country said who is chairman of the department of sociology and the so called Urban Cowboy movement was inspired by the 1980 John Travolta movie of the same name about a Young Texas Man who hangs out in Gil Leys an uproarious Houston Honky Tonk and learns How to ride a mechanical the movie ignited an upsurge in country music popu Larity and a fashion Trena that had Young adults dress ing in Cowboy hats and Western shirts and night clubs switched from Rock v Roll to country and installed menacing mechanical bulls an apparatus that simulated a ride on a Rodeo five years Urban Cowboy apparently has seen the last country musics share of the record business has dropped from about is percent at the beginning of this decade to 9 percent last dozens of country nightclubs that once had mechanical bulls have folded or switched to other kinds of the casual dress of five years ago has Given Way to More formal styles of the Yuppie popular coinage for the upwardly Mobile Young person with a fondness for Nouvelle cuisine and Chic health the Chalk White Yuppie suit has replaced the Cowboy says Kurt publisher of the Barnard retail marketing a fashion Industry newsletter in new York we have moved from an Era of particularly among the to a fairly conservative pop Barnard people seem to be returning to More Basic values and sustainable modes of expressing but some country music singers say the Urban cow boy lifestyle has at least one Bullet left in the once blazing if you go to youll find that its not says Singer Joe there Are people in there at 7 until buying souvenirs anti because of the Dick a Nashville booking agent for 46 coun try music says the nightclub business is dead be cause country singers raised appearance fees that in turn pushed up ticket the Public then quit the movie people Are he they know they need to keep ticket prices at around or and the Public wont go much one of the nightclubs that has quit hiring country bands is Mabells in which switched to 50s and 60s Rock v Roll this year after catering to the country crowd for three no one was supporting the country said manager Jerry manager of Bobby lackeys club in says the mechanical Bull in the nightspot does Only 20 percent of the business it did three or four years it was just a he Vanderbilt Peterson says Urban Cowboy was part of a whole fascination with alternative lifestyles to the Eastern Jimmy Carter was another product of this getting out of the East and out of business