- Legend · 1969
- Legend · 1969
- The Essential Poco · 1969
- Poco · 1969
- Rose of Cimarron · 1976
- A Good Feelin' to Know · 1972
- Under the Gun · 1980
- Legend · 1978
- Crazy Eyes · 1973
- Indian Summer · 1977
- From the Inside (Expanded Edition) · 1969
- The Last Roundup (Live) · 2004
- Poco · 1970
Essential Albums
- After 10 years, 12 albums, and many personnel shifts, the hard-touring country rockers Poco finally, in 1978, released a big hit album. Pedal steel player Rusty Young struck gold with his languid country-popper “Crazy Love,” which was followed up on the charts with “Heart of the Night,” guitarist Paul Cotton’s Eagles-ish ode to New Orleans. The album is purposely light around the edges, perfectly melodic, and exquisitely executed. And while songwriters Young and Cotton eschew social commentary in favor of matters of the heart, in their world, love is equally sad and dishonest, but it always wins out. And you can slow dance to it.
- Early country-rock originators Poco hit a zenith on their sixth album, 1973’s Crazy Eyes. For one thing, they brought in producer Jack Richardson (Alice Cooper, Grass Roots), whose song know-how made this Poco’s most satisfying release. The title song (with musical arrangement by Bob Ezrin) mourns the great Gram Parsons in a big, country-rock opera kind of way, complete with banjo breaks, vocal (and string) breakdowns, and Rusty Young’s soothing pedal steel. It’s a stunner of an undertaking for the genre. The barrelhouse piano and guitar picking imbue “Blue Water” with a kind of electric bluegrass straight out of a juke joint. Timothy Schmit’s “Here We Go Again” could’ve been a great Eagles song, and it wasn’t even a single here. "A Right Along” adds a propulsive rock-anthem beat, “ooh” vocals, and Tommy-gun guitars to its country-ish foundation, and the results raise eyebrows like leather trousers tucked into cowboy boots. J.J. Cale’s “Magnolia” gets a beautiful acoustic turn, and Richie Furay (on his last Poco album) singing Gram Parsons' “Brass Buttons” sends the whole album home.
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- 1982
Music Videos
- 2014
- 2014
Artist Playlists
- These country rockers mixed golden pop harmonies with twang.
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About Poco
Poco was part of the first wave of West Coast country-rock bands, emerging from the ashes of the seminal Buffalo Springfield and initially built around Springfield's singer/guitarist Richie Furay and producer/sessionman Randy Meisner. They combined the harmony-laden folk-rock sound of the '60s with a country twang (mostly courtesy of pedal steel guitarist Rusty Young) and made a few noted country-rock albums in the early '70s before their sound turned slicker and poppier later in the decade.
- FROM
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1968
- GENRE
- Rock