This excellent two-disc collection captures Poco's finest moments from the days when they were laying down the template for all the country-rock music that was to follow. It's hard to remember, but when the Eagles first hit the scene, they were thought by many to be a Poco-wannabe band. Listen to this set and you'll hear why. The Forgotten Trail (1969-1974) culls tracks from Poco's first eight albums, as well as unreleased cuts and singles. From the classic anthem "Pickin' Up the Pieces," which kicks things off, through "You Better Think Twice," "C'mon," "Kind Woman," "From the Inside," "A Good Feelin' to Know," "Crazy Eyes," and on and on, this is wonderful music, ahead of its time in many ways. If Poco had arrived on the scene in the early '90s, they would have been kings of the country charts. Of course, without Poco, country music wouldn't have taken on the rock trappings that it did in the '80s and '90s. As it was, the band was considered too country for the Top 40 rock format of the time, and too rock & roll for country radio. This set is the place to start for an appreciation of the original Poco, when the group was considered to be Richie Furay's band. All the ingredients are here that made their music so delightful: the trademark high-vocal harmonies; Rusty Young's pedal steel guitar wizardry; Furay's patented juxtapositions of sad lyrics against bouncy, harmony-filled tunes; and their spirit of optimism and good feelings even in the face of hard luck and bad weather. The 36-page booklet does a fine job of telling the story in print, and the 38 songs speak volumes about the band's place and influence. Thanks to this compilation, Poco's trailblazing days need be forgotten no longer. (ALLMUSIC)
trax disc 1:
01 Pickin' Up The Pieces 02 Grand Junction 03 Consequently So Long 04 First Love [Remix] 05 Calico Lady 06 My Kind Of Love 07 Hard Luck [Album Version] 08 Last Call (Cold Enchilada #3) [Album Version] 09 Honky Tonk Downstairs [Album Version] 10 Hurry Up 11 You Better Think Twice 12 Anyway Bye Bye 13 I Guess You Made It [Album Version] 14 C'mon [Live] 15 Hear That Music [Album Version] 16 Kind Woman 17 Just For Me And You 18 Bad Weather 19 You Better Think Twice [Acoustic Remix] 20 Lullaby In September [Remix]
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01 You Are The One [Live Version] 02 From The Inside [Remix] 03 A Good Feelin' To Know [Album Version] 04 I Can See Everything [Remix] 05 And Settlin' Down [Album Version] 06 Blue Water 07 Fools Gold 08 Nothin's Still The Same [Remix] 09 Skunk Creek [Album Version] 10 Here We Go Again 11 Crazy Eyes [Album Version] 12 Get In The Wind [Remix] 13 Believe Me [Remix] 14 Rocky Mountain Breakdown [Album Version] 15 Faith In The Families 16 Western Waterloo [Album Version] 17 Whatever Happened To Your Smile 18 Sagebrush Serenade [Album Version]
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POCO! Some of the funnest music ever! They were just as great live as these spirited and delightful tracks. Their shows at the Wolman Skating Rink summers in NYC were some of the best shows I ever saw. Lively, happy, tight, harmonic sing and dance alongs. I wore my Poco t-shirt proudly. CSNY, Manasas, Firefall, Flying Burritos and of course the Eagles truly owe a great debt to this band….and if I were to put on one of their albums today…i would reach for Poco first. And this is a great comp of the bands work. Thanks for this!! Guess I'm going to a hoedown!!
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Jeff Beck - Truth (1968) [2014 Japan Warner Music WPCR-15588 SHM-CD]
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Despite being the premiere of heavy metal, Jeff Beck's Truth has never quite carried its reputation the way the early albums by Led Zeppelin did, or even Cream's two most popular LPs, mostly as a result of the erratic nature of the guitarist's subsequent work. Time has muted some of its daring, radical nature, elements of which were appropriated by practically every metal band (and most arena rock bands) that followed. Truth was almost as groundbreaking and influential a record as the first Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Who albums. Its attributes weren't all new -- Cream and Jimi Hendrix had been moving in similar directions -- but the combination was: the wailing, heart-stoppingly dramatic vocalizing by Rod Stewart, the thunderous rhythm section of Ron Wood's bass and Mickey Waller's drums, and Beck's blistering lead guitar, which sounds like his amp is turned up to 13 and ready to short out. Beck opens the proceedings in a strikingly bold manner, using his old Yardbirds hit "Shapes of Things" as a jumping-off point, deliberately rebuilding the song from the ground up so it sounds closer to Howlin' Wolf. There are lots of unexpected moments on this record: a bone-pounding version of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me"; a version of Jerome Kern's "Ol' Man River" done as a slow electric blues; a brief plunge into folk territory with a solo acoustic guitar version of "Greensleeves" (which was intended as filler but audiences loved); the progressive blues of "Beck's Bolero"; the extended live "Blues Deluxe"; and "I Ain't Superstitious," a blazing reworking of another Willie Dixon song. It was a triumph -- a number 15 album in America, astoundingly good for a band that had been utterly unknown in the U.S. just six months earlier -- and a very improbable success. (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)
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THREE DOG NIGHT - It Ain't Easy (1970) [2013 Japan SHM-CD UICY-75565]
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After a remarkable string of hits through 1969, Three Dog Night released It Ain't Easy, its fourth album in less than 18 months. Once again, it was a hot seller, going to number eight. Once again, it consisted primarily of songs written by some of rock music's best, but as yet unheralded, composers. And this time, the group had its first number one hit, a memorable version of Randy Newman's fear-of-partying song "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)." Although much more melodramatic than Newman's own understated take on his 12 Songs album, Three Dog Night's rendering was cleverly orchestrated and impossible to escape. It Ain't Easy also included another Newman composition, "Cowboy," the song he'd written for Midnight Cowboy, which was rejected by the filmmakers in favor of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'." The album also provided a taste of Free with "Woman," Paul Williams' attractive "Out in the Country," and a Cynthia Weil-Barry Mann composition, "Good Time Living." The Elton John classic "Your Song" makes its first appearance on this album as well, predating his own recorded version by several months. Considering how dependent Three Dog Night was on outside songsmiths to provide them with the material they popularized, it is surprising that none of the album jackets of their first four albums contained printed writing credits. The curious listener had to look to the labels on the records in order to track down who had written these first-rate compositions. (Allmusic)
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PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS - Venus and Mars ’75 (Deluxe Edition 2014) @320
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Band on the Run was a commercial success, but even if it was billed as a Wings effort, it was primarily recorded by Paul, Linda, and Denny Laine. So, it was time to once again turn Wings into a genuine band, adding Joe English and Jimmy McCulloch to the lineup and even letting the latter contribute a song. This faux-democracy isn't what signals that this is a band effort -- it's the attitude, construction, and pacing, which McCartney acknowledges as much, opening with an acoustic title track that's a salute to arena rock, leading to a genuine arena rock anthem, "Rock Show." From that, it's pretty much rocking pop tunes, paced with a couple of ballads and a little whimsy, all graced with a little of the production flair that distinguished Band on the Run. But where that record was clearly a studio creation and consciously elaborate, this is a straightforward affair where the sonic details are simply window dressing. McCartney doesn't really try anything new, but the songs are a little more varied than the uniform, glossy production would suggest; he dips into soft-shoe music hall shuffle on "You Gave Me the Answer," gets a little psychedelic with "Spirits of Ancient Egypt," kicks out a '50s rock & roll groove with "Magento and Titanium Man," and unveils a typically sweet and lovely melody on "Listen to What the Man Said." These are a slight shifts on an album that certainly feels like the overture for the arena rock tour that it was, which makes it one of McCartney's more consistent listens, even though it's possible to scan the song listing after several listens and not recognize any song outside of "Listen to What the Man Said" and the opening medley by title. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)
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In the 70' I could just buy 4 albums in a year and we had the choice between so much fantastic albums that I never listen to Poco.
Thanks Gyro to give us a chance to listen to Poco (and thanks another time for Baby Huey: I'm listening "a change is gonna gone" again and again and again...)
LittleJack
Thanks
I bought Jeff Beck's "Truth" when it first appeared in US records stores. (I can't remember why I bought it. I'm not sure that I even knew who Jeff Beck was back then.) Because of Rod Stewart's vocals the album quickly made an impact on me. But as my musical tastes shifted by the early 70's I no longer listened to the album. Each time I heard the name Jeff Beck, however, I thought about it. A few years ago I dug it out and listened again. I was amazed. The personnel, as well as the additional personal, make this an album by a Super Group capable of filling coliseums.
Dig this:
Jeff Beck
Rod Stewart
Ronnie Wood
Micky Waller
Additional personnel:
Madeline Bell
John Carter
Clem Cattini
Aynsley Dunbar
Nicky Hopkins
John Paul Jones
Jimmy Page
Keith Moon
Those guys alone are reason enough to get this.
Re: Jeff Beck "Truth"
This was not a big seller, and Jef Beck is not my favorite guitarist...but this album and the first Beck, Bogert, and Appice album both made my "ten albums to have on a deserted island" list.
I knew who Jeff Beck was, along with all but four of the musicians on the album (and had recently seen Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds in a FREE outdoors concert on their last tour) so I grabbed this as soon as I saw it. I'm on my fourth copy (two LPs, an eight-track and CD).
Everybody I've played this for agrees that if there is any forerunner to Led Zeppelin's soon-to-debut sound, this is it.
@ Anonymous - agreed, agreed, agreed, except my first choice would be "From the Inside," the first Poco I ever heard, and bought on a recommendation. Chances are good I'd play a couple of cuts a few times.
Thank you for this version of Jeff Beck's "Truth". Came for the Poco education, and, as always in the Zone, found so much more!
kevin pat says...@OB Dan "From the Inside"! Great album!! Yeah, I always think I'm gonna put on one Poco track and before I know it, the whole thing went and I'm on to another. It could be any of their first 5 or 6 albums. Happy, bouncy stuff. Yay!
kevinpat
Same here! Came for the Poco, stayed for the Curtis box set!
Thank you.
And yes, Truth by Jeff Beck is one of the greatest records ever released!
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