★★★★★
"Bareback at Big Sky" was recorded live in April, 2005 in Bozeman, Montana. Long gone are guys like Richie Furay, Jim Messina and George Grantham who first established Poco's innovative country rock sound in Los Angeles back in the early-1970s. However, Rusty Young (steel, mandolin, dobro, vocals) was one of the original members. Paul Cotton (guitar, vocals) joined the band in the 70s...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2014-01-07
★★★★★
Country-rock veterans return Though they've existed in one form or another for an impressive 45 years, All Fired Up is only the second visit to the recording studio this century by the country-rockers whose name crops up regularly in the biographies of more celebrated acts (Buffalo Springfield, Eagles). Singersongwriter Rusty Young remains the constant, this latest line-up bolstered by another pair of solid and sympathetic writers, bassist Jack Sundrud and keyboardist Michael Webb...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
There's nothing on the order of earlier classics like "Rose of Cimarron" or "Crazy Eyes" on Poco's first studio album in over a decade, but there is plenty to enjoy. Guitarist/vocalist Rusty Young remains the last man standing from the original 1969 combo, an act that may not have invented country rock but were among the first to popularize it...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Having started out on the same country-rock path at around the same time as The Eagles, the members of Poco could only look on ruefully as their great rivals became global superstars. As Hotel California notched up millions of sales, the nearly-men's 11th album found them treading water and about to suffer the latest in a long line of upheavals. Arguably, what the band lacked was a truly great songwriter to challenge The Eagles' run of hits...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
The most overrated underrated group in America. All of CSNY's preciosity with none of the inspiration, all of bluegrass's ramifications with none of its roots. In short, the perfect commentary on the vacuity of competence. Q: Is that useless long instrumental rock or jazz or country or bluegrass? A: If it's useless, it's none of the four. And if it's all of the four it's none of the four.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Nice and happy, but considering the personnel a disappointment; Richie Furay and Jim Messina should do better than this; may be reevaluated.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Before the Eagles came to embody the take-it-easy sounds of California country-rock in the early '70s, Poco was one of the style's original pioneers, playing catchy lite-pop tunes with a Nashville accent. Through a succession of lineups, Richie Furay's chipmunk voice and Rusty Young's distinctive pedal steel guitar dominated a half a dozen albums of frothy songs like "Pickin' Up the Pieces" and "You Better Think Twice...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Since the first time I saw Poco live almost two years ago I've developed a psychological dependency for their music. I found them to be a better cure for the blahs than Alka Seltzer and as suitable a means for relieving stress as transcendental meditation. They have the unique talent of not only being able to take a sad song and make it better (like Rod Stewart or Tina Turner) but they actually write sad songs and perform them as if they were about something better than sorrow...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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