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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.
"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.
In 1976 Young was asked by his friend, actor and aspiring record producer Stuart Margolin, if he could compose a cowboy song for a comeback album Margolin planned to produce for veteran western performer Roy Rogers. Young remembered the brochure on Rose Dunn and came up with the song "Rose of Cimarron".
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 ...
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.
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]
In his Allmusic review, music critic John Duffy called the production "weak, tentative, and thin, with dated guitar tones and studio feel" and wrote, "It's as if the alt-country explosion of the mid-'90s never happened. With so many groups owing a debt to Poco, it's hard to understand why while listening to Running Horse.