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The Essential Poco
''The Essential Poco'' is a compilation album of recordings by the band Poco released in 2005 as part of Sony BMG's ''Essential'' series. Track listing #" Pickin' Up the Pieces" (Richie Furay) – 3:20 #"You Better Think Twice" ( Jim Messina) – 3:21 #"Anyway Bye Bye" (Furay) – 7:01 #"C'mon ive (Furay) – 3:10 #"Kind Woman ive (Furay) – 6:07 #"Bad Weather" (Paul Cotton) – 5:02 #"Just For Me And You" (Furay) – 3:37 #"A Good Feelin' To Know" (Furay) – 5:15 #"Go And Say Goodbye" (Stephen Stills) – 2:46 #"Here We Go Again" ( Timothy B. Schmit) – 3:28 #"High and Dry" ( Rusty Young) – 4:49 #" Crazy Love" (Young) – 2:55 #"Heart Of The Night" (Cotton) – 4:49 #"Shoot For The Moon" (Young) – 2:48 #"Call It Love" (Ron Gilbeau, Billy Crain, Rick Lonow) – 4:17 #"Nothin’ To Hide" (Richard Marx, Bruce Gaitsch) – 5:12 #"When It All Began" (Steve Pasch, M. Krizan, Richie Furay, Scott Sellen) – 3:36 Personnel * Jim Messina – guitar, vocals *Richie Furay – guit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poco (band)
Poco was an American country rock band originally formed in 1968 after the demise of Buffalo Springfield. Guitarists Richie Furay and Jim Messina, former members of Buffalo Springfield, were joined by multi-instrumentalist Rusty Young, bassist Randy Meisner and drummer George Grantham. Meisner quit the band while they were recording their first album, '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'', though his bass and backing vocal parts were kept in the final mix. He was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit in 1969, and Messina left in 1970 to be replaced by Paul Cotton. The line-up would change numerous times over the next several decades, with Rusty Young being the only constant member. A reunion of the founding members occurred in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and the band continued in some form through 2021, though they retired from active touring in 2013, with Young citing health concerns as the primary cause of his retirement. Young died from a heart attack in April 2021. To date, the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy B
''Timothy B'' is the second solo studio album by Timothy B. Schmit, the bassist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in 1987 on MCA Records in the United States and Europe, three years after Schmit's debut solo studio album, '' Playin' It Cool'' (1984) and seven years after the demise of the Eagles. The album peaked at #106 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, and the single, " Boys Night Out", hit #25 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, becoming Schmit's best selling single. The album was produced by Richard Rudolph, and it was co-produced by Bruce Gaitsch. Background When Schmit was asked about why there were less notable musicians compared to his last album, he said "I decided to stay out of the real glamour studios and to keep the clientele down too. I did it on purpose mainly for less distractions. I mean I really knew what I wanted to do on this album and I decided purposely not to use my famous and semi-famous friends just to have it be more of what I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Bullard
Kim Bullard (born May 6, 1955) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, record producer, and film composer. He has been making music since the 1970s and has performed extensively as a keyboard player with musical acts such as Elton John and Crosby, Stills, & Nash. As a recording studio session player he has played piano, keyboards, and synthesizer with recording artists Yes, Santana, Kenny Loggins, Heart, Belinda Carlisle, The Doobie Brothers, Tori Amos, Kelly Clarkson, and Carrie Underwood among numerous others. Bullard was a longstanding band member of the band Poco, and is currently a member of the Elton John Band. Early life Bullard was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he began playing piano at five years old. He attributes much of his success as a pianist to his mother's support, and his desire to learn piano. Music career Crosby, Stills, & Nash (1977-1979) Bullard moved to Los Angeles, California in 1973 and began performing with various musicians, which l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Harrison (musician)
Charlie Harrison may refer to: * Charlie Harrison (basketball) (1949–2020), American college basketball coach for New Mexico and East Carolina * Charlie Harrison (footballer, born 1861) (1861–?), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers * Charlie Harrison (Gaelic footballer), footballer from County Sligo, Ireland * Charlie Harrison (Manchester United footballer), English footballer for Manchester United * Charlie Harrison, bassist for Poco In software engineering, a plain old CLR object, or plain old class object (POCO) is a simple object created in the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) that is unencumbered by inheritance or attributes. This is often used in opposition to the comp ..., 1978–84 See also * Charles Harrison (other) {{hndis, Harrison, Charlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Meisner
Randall Herman Meisner (March 8, 1946 – July 26, 2023) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and founding member of both Eagles and Poco. Throughout his professional musical career, both as group member and session musician, his main role was that of bassist and backing vocalist. He co-wrote and provided lead vocals on the Eagles' hit song " Take It to the Limit". Early life Randall Herman Meisner was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on March 8, 1946, the second child and only son of farmers Herman (1911–1995) and Emilie (née Haun) Meisner (1911–2010). All four of Randy's grandparents were Volga German immigrants. He had an elder sister, Carol, who died in 2005. He recalled that his mother was always singing around the house. His maternal grandfather, George Haun, was a violin teacher. The Meisner family grew corn, beans, alfalfa, and sugar beets on their farm.McMullan, Gautier. p. 64 Randy developed an interest in the guitar at the age of 10, after seeing Elvis P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Grantham (musician)
George Grantham (born January 20, 1947) is an American drummer and vocalist best known for his work with pioneering country rock band Poco. Early career Grantham and pedal steel guitarist Rusty Young were members of the Denver-based psychedelic rock act Boenzee Cryque when Young left the band in mid-1968 for Los Angeles. There, Young fell in with Buffalo Springfield members Richie Furay Paul Richard Furay (born May 9, 1944) is an American musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member (with Buffalo Springfield). He is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey ... and Jim Messina as they wrapped up that band's final album. Poco With Buffalo Springfield disintegrated, Furay, Messina, and Young joined to create a new band, originally named "Pogo" but then shortly rechristened "Poco" after copyright concerns forced a change. The band needed a drummer, and Young recruited Grantham, who became part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Of The Night (song)
"Heart of the Night" is a song on the 1978 album release by the country-rock group Poco entitled ''Legend''; the 1979 hit single is also featured on the group retrospective ''20th Century Masters'', as well as '' The Essential Poco''. Background The song's lead vocalist and composer Paul Cotton would describe "Heart of the Night" as a song which (Paul Cotton quote:) "kind of wrote itselfin twenty minutes", being "inspired by my love and lust for New Orleans", a city Cotton had previously focused on "Down in the Quarter" (album '' Head Over Heels''/ 1975); Cotton has also stated that he wrote "Break of Hearts" (album ''Ghost Town''/ 1982) as a followup to "Heart of the Night" (although "Break of Hearts" contains no regional references). Cotton, born in Alabama but raised in Chicago, would aver: (Paul Cotton quote:): "I'm just drawn to the South. Hey, I spent 25 winters in Chicago." "Heart of the Night" is highlighted by an alto sax solo by Phil Kenzie who had similarly and me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Love (Poco Song)
"Crazy Love" is a 1979 hit single for the country rock group Poco introduced on the 1978 album ''Legend''. Written by founding group member Rusty Young, "Crazy Love" was the first single by Poco to reach the Top 40 and remained the group's biggest hit, with a special impact as an Adult Contemporary hit, being ranked by ''Billboard'' as the #1 AC song for the year 1979. Composition In 2012, Young would thus recall his writing "Crazy Love": "I was living in Los Angeles, working on my house one day" - "I was paneling a wall and looking out over the valley in L.A. and the chorus came into my head" - "I always had a guitar close at hand. It took about thirty minutes to write that song, because it was all there. It was kind of a gift." Young added that the "'Ooh, ooh, Ahhhh haaa' part" of the chorus was a stopgap he intended to replace with formal lyrics but the musicians who first backed Young on the song told him: "Don't do that, that's the way it's supposed to be." In a July 17, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusty Young (musician)
Norman Russell Young (February 23, 1946 – April 14, 2021) was an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, best known as one of the frontmen in the influential country rock and Americana band Poco. A virtuoso on pedal steel guitar, he was celebrated for the ability to get a Hammond B3 organ sound out of the instrument by playing it through a Leslie speaker cabinet and as an innovator of producing other rock sounds from the instrument. Early life Young was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Colorado. He began playing lap steel guitar at age 6, and taught guitar and steel guitar lessons during his high school years at Jefferson High School, Lakewood, Colorado with George Grantham. During that time, he also played country music in late night bars. Young played in a well known Denver psychedelic rock band "Boenzee Cryque". Career Poco In the late 1960s, an acquaintance of Young's, Miles Thomas, became the road manager for Buffalo Springfield. Richie Furay and Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and Manassas (band), Manassas. As both a solo act and member of three successful bands, Stills has combined record sales of over 35 million albums. He was ranked number 28 in ''Rolling Stone''s 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"''Rolling Stone'The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.2003-08-27. and number 47 in the 2011 list. Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to Neil Young, "Stephen is a genius". Beginning his professional career with Buffalo Springfield, he composed "For What It's Worth", which became one of the most recognizable songs of the 1960s. Other notable songs he contributed to the band were "Sit Down, I Think I Love You", "Bluebird (Buffalo Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Rock
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Backbeat Books, 3rd ed., 2002), p. 1327. Country rock began with artists like Waylon Jennings, Buffalo Springfield, Michael Nesmith, Bob Dylan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, The International Submarine Band and others, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Poco, Charlie Daniels Band, and Pure Prairie League. Country rock also influenced artists in other genres, including The Band, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cotton
Norman Paul Cotton (February 26, 1943 – July 31, 2021) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was a member of the band Poco and the writer of their international hit song " Heart of the Night". Before that, he was co-guitarist for the Illinois Speed Press. Early life Cotton was born in Fort Rucker, Alabama, on February 26, 1943. He started learning the guitar when he was 13 years old, and became involved in his first band a year later. He relocated to Illinois by age 16 and joined the Mus-Twangs, which later became the Illinois Speed Press. He played for the group throughout the next decade until 1970, when it dissolved due to the divergent musical interests of him and Kal David. Career Cotton joined Poco in 1970, replacing Jim Messina. Most of Cotton's music career was as songwriter, lead guitarist and lead singer for the group. He said in a September 2000 interview with ''Sound Waves'' magazine, "I'm just drawn to the South. Hey, I spent 25 winters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
