Episode 9 - Kenny Loggins and Blue Sky Riders
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2012
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kenny Loggins and Nashville greats Georgia Middleman and Gary Burr aka Blue Sky Riders join Simon and Brian for a conversation about their exciting new band and distinguished songwriting careers. Kenny also tells the stories behind some of his most celebrated songs including 'I'm Alright', 'Footloose', 'This is It' and 'What a Fool Believes'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Thanks for checking out this episode of the podcast. Today on the show |
| 0:16.2 | we've got legendary songwriter, singer and guitarist Kenny Logins and that's not all. We're |
| 0:21.4 | also very lucky to welcome his collaborators, |
| 0:23.7 | the hugely successful Nashville songwriters, Georgia Middleman and Gary Bear |
| 0:28.2 | who collectively make up Blue Sky Riders. |
| 0:30.4 | We'll introduce our guests properly in just a moment, but before we do we wanted to thank all of our listeners for downloading in your thousands recently. |
| 0:37.0 | We can't believe how quickly the show was growing and you might well have seen us on the front page of the iTunes Podcast or recently. |
| 0:43.6 | Exactly where we belong. |
| 0:44.8 | Humble to a fault. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, we were featured there and that was a huge boost to us both spiritually and in terms of numbers and this is a numbers game we're in after all |
| 0:57.2 | it's a cold harsh world out there brite it's doggy dog gonna get the numbers make the |
| 1:01.2 | great that's it so if you'd like to tell us what you thought of a particular episode, |
| 1:05.2 | or if you have questions or comments you'd like us to read out on the show, just visit soda jerker.com and use the contact page to write to us. |
| 1:12.1 | Also, if you've got any suggestions for songwriters you'd like to hear from as guests on the show, |
| 1:17.0 | send us a tweet or write on our Facebook page or drop us alarm by email. |
| 1:21.0 | We're also partial to a good review in the iTunes store. So if you'd |
| 1:24.6 | like to leave a nice comment there for us we would appreciate it. Just search for Sodejaker |
| 1:28.6 | on songwriting in iTunes and leave your comments on our page. So as we said at the top of the show, we're very lucky to welcome not one but three hugely |
| 1:36.8 | successful song greatest today. Kenny Logans has written hit songs across four decades, |
| 1:41.3 | with an astonishing 12 platinum albums and the many millions of record |
| 1:45.0 | sales under his belt. |
| 1:46.6 | He started out as a staff song writer before he formed a Logins and Messina with former Buffalo |
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