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Young is best known for writing the Poco songs "Rose of Cimarron" and "Crazy Love". In 2013, Young was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. [7] At the end of 2013, Young announced his, what turned out to be a short-lived, retirement. [8] A few shows were booked into 2014 including three farewell shows in Florida.
One of Furay's solo efforts was the country-influenced ballad "Kind Woman", which he recorded with the help of producer/engineer/bassist Jim Messina and pedal steel guitarist Rusty Young. [2] When Buffalo Springfield split up, Furay, Messina and Rusty Young decided to start their own group oriented toward such songs.
"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.
Rusty Young, who co-founded the country-rock group Poco in 1968 and was the only mainstay through the band’s five-decade-plus history, died Wednesday at age 75. A representative said Young died ...
Poco’s co-founder and longtime frontman, Rusty Young, died Wednesday night. (Read Variety‘s obituary here.) He had no more fervent acolyte than Tom Hampton, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter ...
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Rusty Young died on April 14, 2021, at his home in Davisville, Missouri, from a heart attack. He was 75. [30] [31] Poco split after Young's death. Three and a half months after Rusty Young's April 2021 death, his former partner in the band, Paul Cotton, died at his summer home in Eugene, Oregon at age 78 on August 1, 2021. [32]
Messina played guitar and mandolin on the album. He wrote and sang on three of the songs: "Follow Your Dreams", "Look Within" and "Lovin' You Every Minute." He also co-wrote the song "Call It Love, " sung by Rusty Young. That song reached number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1989. [6] In 2005, Messina and Loggins hit the road as a duo ...