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Links For The Country Rock Band: Poco
Poco is the best contemporaneous band to build on the Buffalo Springfield's innovations. The last Buffalo Springfield album, Last Time Around (Atco, 1968) was produced by Jim Messina and featured a Richie Furay composition, "Kind Woman," to which steel guitarist, Rusty Young, added pedal steel -- the first time pedal steel was used on a major rock album, by most accounts. After the breakup of Springfield, Furay, Messina, and Young started a new group, to be called Pogo. "Pogo" became "Poco" when cartoonist Walt Kelly's syndicate objected to the use of their name. Young brought along George Grantham, drummer from his old band Boenzee Cryque, and Randy Meisner of the Poor joined on bass. This team released one LP, Pickin' Up the Pieces (Epic,1969), after which Meisner departed for Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band, Linda Ronstadt, and eventual fame with the Eagles.Timothy B. Schmit was Meisner's replacement on bass; that quintet released two albums, after which Messina left to find fame in Loggins & Messina. His replacement was Paul Cotton; that version of Poco released three more albums before Crazy Eyes (Epic, 1973), the title song of which was about Gram Parsons. After that album, Richie Furay left, yet his tenure is summed up nicely on The Forgotten Trail (1969-1974) (Epic/Legacy, 1990).
Poco continued on as a quartet, releasing the widely acclaimed Cantamos acoustic album and three others, before Timothy B. Schmit left to join the Eagles.
Following Schmit's departure to the Eagles, Rusty Young and Paul Cotton reached Top Forty success with the release of singles from the highly successful Legend album. Richie Furay's new profession as a minister in Boulder, Colorado did not preclude a brief reunion of the five members of Poco for the Inamorta album, and the original quintet united again for Legacy, this time making the TopTwenty with their single "Call It Love."  Paul Cotton and Rusty Young continue to keep the spirit of Poco alive, by playing most recently in the latest version of Poco.


Links for Poco:
 Poco Homepage Main Page
 POCO LEGACY HOMEPAGE
 Poco
 Richs' Poco Page
 Argus Music Searcher: The Poco page
 Cantamos Mailing List
 iMusic - Poco Bulletin Board
 Index of /data/tabs/p/poco
Links For Richie Furay:
 The Richie Furay Home Page
 Richie Furay Fan Site
 Interview June 1999 - Richie Furay
 For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield
 Old Grey Cat - John Einarson Interview
 Harvest Crusades | Past Crusades - Richie Furay Band
 iMusic Rock Showcase - Richie Furay
 Furay, Richie
 Richie Furay Bulletin Board
 
 

Richie Furay is a founding member of Poco, and an inductee into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame.
 

Jim Messina is a founding member of Poco, and a Grammy Award winner.
 Jim Messina Biography
 Jim Messina: Been There, Done That
 Jim Messina: Been There, Done That, Part II
 Jim Messina - Interview
 iMusic - The Jim Messina Bulletin Board
 Poco/Loggins & Messina
 
 


Links For Randy Meisner and George Grantham:
 Randy Meisner, A World Class Rocker  Randy Meisner Discography
 iMusic - Randy Meisner Bulletin Board
 The Singing-Drummer Homepage
 George Grantham's Hoopla
Randy Meisner and George Grantham are founding members of Poco. Randy Meisner is an inductee into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, a Grammy Winner, and has performed on the most successful recording of all times: The Eagle's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1. 26 million copies sold and counting! (George is standing 2nd from the right & Randy is on the far left in this image!)
Links For Rusty Young:
 Recent Gig Promo
 Dobro® - Artist Gallery
 Carter Steel Guitars
 The Sky Kings
 Boenzee Cryque
Rusty Young is a founding member of Poco and has had top 40 success singing on the Poco tracks - Crazy Love and Call it Love.
Timothy B. Schmit is an inductee into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, and a Grammy Award winner. He is currently a member of the Eagles, and has scored Top 40 success with their song - I Can't Tell You Why.
 Voices--A Timothy B. Schmit Homepage
 Timothy B. Schmit Discography
 iMusic - Timothy B Schmit Bulletin Board
  Biography


Links for Paul Cotton:
 The Paul Cotton Home Page
 Paul Cotton: Changing Horses
 iMusic - Paul Cotton Bulletin Board
 Purchase or listen to Paul's new CD!
 

Along with founding member Rusty Young, Paul Cotton still fronts Poco. Paul Cotton has a new solo CD out called: Firebird. On it, he has not only new material, but revamped versions of Paul Cotton classics such as Bad Weather, the song which helped to land Paul the job as guitarist for Poco.

Several of the images used in the making of this page are from a 1972 concert in Amsterdam. Richie, Tim, and Paul can plainly be seen in this next scan. Enjoy!


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 greyrider@softhome.net
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Favorite Poco Member

Which of these seven were your favorite member of Poco?

Tim Schmit
Richie Furay
Jim Messina
Rusty Young
Paul Cotton
George Grantham
Randy Meisner


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