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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Tasty
First time in years that I pulled out some of their music.
The Gilded Palace of Sin is just a damn good listen and so is Sweethearts of the Rodeo.
Parsons and Hillman were in my opinion the creators of country rock. |
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Location: Tennessee | Don't forget Bernie Leadon was a huge part of that sound, too! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Totally..
For some reason I always forget him. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | agreed, the early stuff is great but can sound a little dated.
Some of their later stuff when they completely changed the line up was pretty weak. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by stephent28:
Parsons and Hillman were in my opinion the creators of country rock. I agree, if you add the original members of Poco to that statement.
I still love that sound, I saw Chris Hillman open for Richie Furay (speaking of original Poco members) just a couple of years ago. Great show. |
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Location: New Hampsha | Originally posted by standing:
I agree, if you add the original members of Poco to that statement.
I still love that sound, I saw Chris Hillman open for Richie Furay (speaking of original Poco members) just a couple of years ago. Great show. [/QB] +1!
I saw Poco in concert last summer; they were great. I had concert tickets to a Poco show in 1978, and the show was rained out. I bought a program anyway. I had kept the program in a plastic bag since then, and brought it to last summer's show and got it autographed, after 31 years! The band was astounded, and they took a while to go through the program page by page and reminisce. Great moment in my Poco-groupie history! |
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Location: NJ | I saw mcguinn clark and hillman in the early 80's when they got together and did an LP the show was great each one did tunes from their own careers. clark was in the audience sitting next to me and a pal looking to score weed.
I like the FBB and NRPS and poco but I have not time for
eagles
marshall tucker
james montgomery band
and the thousands of other folk rock wanna bees they spawned |
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Location: los angeles | I also think you can add Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band into the early purveyors of country rock. But I particularly love Hot Burrito No. 2, and there is a great version by Raul Malo on the Parsons tribute CD. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | the early stuff is great but can sound a little dated. Uhh Beal, that would apply to a lot of us....lol
Pure Prairie League (both incarnations) |
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Location: Veedersburg, Indiana | I'm surprised that no one mentioned that the album Sweethearts of the Rodeo was done by the Byrds. A great album. The Byrds, with Parsons, White, Skip (I draw a blank on his last name) put out some great country rock. |
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Location: closely held secret | Good point. Stephen, you doin' anything else you might have been doin' back then? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and Sweethearts of the Rodeo was/is one of my favorite country bands. |
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Location: closely held secret | Sorry, thought you were talking about the album. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | post 1 I was
post 3 I wasn't |
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Location: Texas | For those interested, Poco recently moved their official web site to:
PocoNuts |
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Location: Keene, NH | Haha you guys are great. Right now I'm in the 'thinking about it' stage...when it gets to a more serious actual moving phase I may be asking for some contact information :)
My main reason for moving out there is snowboarding. Can anyone tell me if it's everything I dream it to be? Perfect conditions all the time on the mountain, laid back atmosphere, friendly, etc.
Ps I like that this discussion turned into some other off topic tangent. Keep it up - no problems with that here ;) |
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Location: Keene, NH | Ack I think I goofed and somehow posted to the wrong topic...
This was supposed to go on mine!
Excuse me as I tip-toe out of here slowly... |
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Location: Melbourne Fl. | Rusty Young has 3 decent Christmas MP3's free on sessioncats.com |
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