Poco: Legend CD Track Listing

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Poco Legend (1978)
Originally Released November 1978\nCD Edition Released ????\nMCA Gold CD Edition Released March 14, 1995\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The departure of Timothy B. Schmitt to the Eagles should have signalled the end for Poco. However, they turned in a surprisingly tight set here and got their first Top 40 hit with "Crazy Love." -- James Chrispell\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nEXCELLENT POCO ALBUM THAT CLIMED UP THE CHARTS, September 24, 2005\nReviewer: TIM LUCERO "THE PSYCHODELIC ROCK" (Huntsville, Alabama USA)\nIt was an unfortunate shame that POCO abandoned their trademark roots of the country/folk/rock sound that made them famous; however, it became their first and only album after a few years that became a hit seller for them and ABC RECORDS. This was also the first album with CHARLIE ROBINSON (TIM SCHMITT'S replacement) and STEVE CHAPMAN (GEORGE GRANTHAM'S replacement) and without banjo, mandolin, and pedal steel guitar by RUSTY YOUNG, and this was the last album on ABC RECORDS before they sold out to MCA RECORDS. I wish I had bought the ABC release of this album when I had the chance four months before I bought the MCA rerelease. The sound of PAUL COTTON'S guitar sound like either BAD COMPANY'S MICK RALPHS or STEHPEN STILLS during the 1969/1970 era of CROSBY STILLS NASH AND YOUNG. PAUL'S BOOMERANG has excellent sounding lead (played on a FENDER STRATOCASTER) and slide guitar riffs, vocals, drums, bass guitar, and the clavinet. RUSTY'S SPELLBOUND is an excellent quiet ballad with his soft-calm lead vocals, FENDER RHODES piano, and PAUL'S loud guitar solo. PAUL'S tropical BARBADOS features his out-going lead vocals, FENDER RHODES piano, lead and steel guitar riffs. RUSTY'S LITTLE DARLIN' is an excellent gutar rock song with his soft-calm lead vocals, PAUL'S guitar solos, and the piano, and his LOVE COMES LOVE GOES with the sax solo, PAUL'S lead vocals and guitar solo is excellent too. Then comes the FM radio classic HEART OF THE NIGHT written and sung by PAUL who delivers excellent lead vocals and rhythm guitar, accompanied by the orchestra, a sax solo, and the pedal steel guitar by RUSTY; however, the FENDER RHODES piano do not blend well with the pedal steel guitar. The other FM classic is RUSTY'S CRAZY LOVE with his soft-calm vocals, the acoustic guitars, and the harmony vocals. I did not relized that they recorded these 2 songs until I saw them at the BIG SPRING JAM in 2K in Huntsville, Alabama, my hometown. His THE LAST GOODBYE sounds like PAUL and RUSTY take turns singing different verses and features excellent guitar solos, piano riffs, and harmony vocals, and the title-track written by RUSTY is an excellent guitar-rock song features PAUL'S laed vocals, guitar riffs by RUSTY and PAUL, harmony vocals, and the organ. After hearing all the songs sung by RUSTY on this and future albums to come, I wish he would have sung more of his songs that he wrote during their country/folk/rock era.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\ndecent, but suffers from a frustrating lack of inspiration, June 14, 2005\nReviewer: Dave "missing person" (United States) \nTimothy B. Schmit left Poco after 1977's "Indian Summer" to join, of course, the Eagles. His departure pulled the rug out from under the group from a songwriting standpoint, and as a result, all the songs on 1978's "Legend" were written either by Rusty Young or Paul Cotton. The resulting album certainly isn't bad and is a clear improvement over "Indian Summer", but it still does tend to feel workmanlike with songwriting that leaves quite a lot to be desired. Cotton offers the nicely funky album-opener "Boomerang" although it's got some annoying falsetto vocals, and "Barbados" also has some nice moodiness though it's weighed down by an underdeveloped chorus. Young's "Spellbound" is an engagingly tuneful ballad with a nice layered electric piano and acoustic guitar hook, and the mid-tempo pop-rocker "Little Darlin'" is pretty catchy. The hit "Crazy Love", also by Young, is nicely tuneful though a bit drippy, and it also suffers a bit from some thin, shaky harmonies. The problems with the aforementioned tracks get to the core of what's so frustrating about this album--Cotton and Young had some solid songwriting ideas, but it's like they either didn't have it in them or just got too impatient to bring these songs to the level of truly high quality. This is extremely noticeable in the lyrics which are uniformly weak--painfully shallow and unimaginative to the point where you often can see the next line coming a mile away. The one tune that's a total dud is "Love Comes Love Goes" which is a sluggish, sappy ballad. Cotton's hit ballad "Heart of the Night" is listenable, but the sentimentality of it is pretty dull. Young's album-closing title track has some nice catchy riffage, but it's frustratingly aimless. "The Last Goodbye" is another track with some nice moodiness, but again, it's underwritten, and at over 5 &

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