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Poco

Cimarron 615 and Poco: This Country Rocks!

by Doug Collette
June 17, 2023

When Poco formalized the marriage of country music with rock and roll via Pickin' Up The Pieces (Epic, 1969)--after the first convergence of the genres on the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia, 1968), the quintet emphasized improvisation in a way that's been lost during the evolution of contemporary country (although it's now the foundation of ...

One Night in Nashville

Label: Cleopatra Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Where Did The Time Go; Keep On Tryin’; Crazy Love; Pickin’ Up The Pieces; Bad Weather; Call It Love; Let’s Dance; Magnolia; You’d Better Think Twice; Spellbound; Indian Summer; Kind Woman; Rose Of Cimarron; Ride The Country; A Good Feelin’ To Know; Heart Of The Night.

Poco: One Night in Nashville

by Doug Collette
February 27, 2022

What at a glance looks like a lost treasure, Poco's One Night in Nashville, is in fact a re-release of a title available on CD/DVD around the time of its recording in 2004. It has existed under different titles in the interim and this reissue (with its own seemingly varied cover graphics) actually exists on both ...

Gary Vogenson: Shot of Hope

by Doug Collette
July 13, 2021

If the title of Gary Vogenson's Shot of Hope was not so pertinent to the post-quarantine world, he might well have named it Don't Misunderstand Me Too Quickly. At a quick glance, song choices such as the traditional “The Cuckoo" and Dan Penn and Chip Moman's soul/R&B standard “Do Right Woman" seem predictable. But, juxtaposed as ...

The New Riders of The Purple Sage: Thanksgiving in New York City

by Doug Collette
December 14, 2019

As preserved on Thanksgiving In New York City, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage were far more than just a mere offshoot of the Grateful Dead. Initially born in the folk surge of the late Sixties as the latter band's titular leader, Jerry Garcia, initially worked and learned with future NRPS chief songwriter John “Marmaduke" ...