“I was really disappointed, and I was going on a date that night, and I told my girlfriend that the Disney guys have put the kibosh on it and it’s dead in the water,” Loggins said. In his story, he recalled how the lawyers at Disney Corporation had issued a cease and desist order to the song due to copyright. He said he had one he wrote his senior year of high school and recounted the legal trouble, and peculiar circumstances, surrounding the release of what would become “House at Pooh Corner.” Loggins began with a story about living as a songwriter in East L.A., meeting up with members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and swapping songs. I’ve always followed my heart and gone where the fun is and what felt like the right thing to do.”Īfter a brief intermission, the group’s second set opened with the holiday traditional “What Child Is This?” and then several of what Burr called “songs of their past.” It was an opportunity for the three songwriters to display their roots, share some industry wisdom and the origins of some of their most famous songs and how it led to a career in the music business. “It kind of knocked my wind out … but then we talked about it and realized that I’ve never actually done the rational thing in my entire career. You should be thinking about retirement,’” Loggins recalled. You really shouldn’t be starting over at your age. He said he sent a text message to Middleman after containing just four words, “Too old to dream.” The first set ended with the hit “Dream,” which Loggins said was written after the disappointment he experienced when his longtime friend and adviser in the business was hesitant about the 60-plus year old forming a new band. The sold-out audience, although reserved at first, was clapping along and singing the choruses of the band’s songs by the fourth number, a toe-tapping new tune “What Went Right.” The band is writing its second album and compared the experience of trying out new songs to writers’ nights at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Stories were told between each song, delving into the history of how the group came together and the relationship each has fostered, as a rebirth for Loggins and the chance to stand center stage for Middleman and Burr, who married in 2012. Getting up the next morning was a second little victory and I went to work and did the show and that was a third little victory.” “Before I knew it, I was asleep and I woke up the next morning so grateful for that, and I call that a little victory, that I was able to get some rest. “I had all of these people write to me who I didn’t even know,” Middleman said. It also inspired the song, “Little Victories.” She said it was support through Facebook and by stepping back and finding “little victories” each day that she was able to get through it. Middleman, who had previously written songs for Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney and others, shared a story about losing her father and the whirlwind she was going through in not having time to process the loss while maintaining a singing career.
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