Schmit in 1969, and Paul Cotton subbed in for Messina in 1970.
#RUSTY YOUNG PLUS#
A fortuitous connection with Buffalo Springfield led to the band hiring Young to play lap steel on “Kind Woman” from their 1968 album Last Time Around.īuffalo Springfield soon broke up, after which band members Richie Furay and Jim Messina formed Poco with Young plus Randy Meisner and George Grantham. As a teen in the ’60s he began playing in the Colorado psych rock band Boenzee Cryque. In particular, Young was known for his ability to re-create the sound of a Hammond B3 organ by running the lap steel through a Leslie speaker cabinet. He started playing the lap steel as a young child, developing what would become a world-renowned skill with the instrument. Young was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Denver, Colorado. A press release from Young’s team confirms he died Wednesday at his home in Davisville, Missouri after suffering a heart attack. 16 in Steelville, Mo.Norman Russell “Rusty” Young, the guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as one of the leaders of the country-rock band Poco, has died. Young is survived by his wife, Mary, and their two children. A memorial service is planned for Oct.
I’ve worked really hard to be the best I can be, and I think my music is the proof.” “From the moment I was called to play on the Buffalo Springfield album, all through Poco, and now through my solo projects, things have just fallen into place. “I’ve been fortunate to have had a magical career,” Young said in 2020. “To fans and fellow musicians alike, he was a once-in-a-lifetime musician, songwriter, performer and friend.”
“Rusty was the most unpretentious, caring and idyllic artist I have ever worked with, a natural life force that he consistently poured into his music,” said Young's manager, Rick Alter. And I realized that this was the perfect time to do something that could be a really rewarding part of my legacy.” "But I feel I’m now the best I’ve ever been as a singer and songwriter, and I have a better grasp of the music than ever before. “I had been offered solo deals back in the ‘70s, but always felt Poco was more important," he said upon the album's release. 18 single "Call It Love." Various Poco lineups continued over the years with Young at the front. In 2012, he was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. In 2017, he released his first solo album, Waitin’ for the Sun. The original quartet of Young, Furay, Messina and drummer George Grantham reunited in 1989, which resulted in the album Legacy and the No. Their album that year, Legend, also became their highest-charting, reaching No. Poco placed 17 singles in the Top 100 through 1989, including 1979's "Crazy Love," which peaked at No. They went through even more personnel changes among their alumni are two future Eagles: Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Over the next four decades, Poco released close to 20 albums. Their debut album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, was released in 1969 and marked one of the first records in the growing country-rock movement. That same year, Young, Furay and another Buffalo Springfield member, Jim Messina, formed Poco. Young ended up playing pedal steel guitar on Furay's "Kind Woman," a highlight of that 1968 LP. That band was falling apart at the time and needed assistance putting together the pieces of its third and last album, Last Time Around. By 1967, Young had relocated to Los Angeles, where he befriended Richie Furay, a member of Buffalo Springfield, who took him on as a road manager.