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Poco Legend 24 Karat Gold CD MCA Ultimate Masterdics NEU OVP Sealed Cut OUT

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Anzahl Disks/Tonträger: 1
Label: MCA MCAD-11206
Tracks

1. Boomerang (3:51)
2. Spellbound (5:16)
3. Barbados (3:32)
4. Little Darlin' (3:45)
5. Love Comes Love Goes (3:56)
6. Heart Of The Night (4:52)
7. Crazy Love (2:56)
8. The Last Goodbye (5:39)
9. Legend (4:14)

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Poco war so etwas wie ein Druchlauferhitzer für die Rockstar-Szene an der amerikanischen Westküste. Im August 1968 von den Buffalo-Springfield-Ab- gängern Richie Furay (Souther Hillman Furay Band) und Jim Messina (später Loggins & Messina) gegründet, zählten unter anderen die späteren Eagles Randy Meisner und Tim Schmitt zum festen Stamm. Ihr 13. Album spielten Ur- Mitglied Rusty Young und Paul Cotton (seit 1970 dabei) mit den Briten Steve Chapman und Charlie Harrison ein, die in den Bands von Leo Sayer und Al Stewart getrommelt beziehungsweise den Baß gezupft hatten. Nach Bedarf baute das in Los Angeles residierende Quartett seine cremigen, harmoniese- ligen Balladen (meist aus Youngs Feder) und Cottons rhythmisch forcierte Rocksongs durch kompetente Sessionmusiker an Keyboards oder Saxophon sti- listisch aus. So bricht in die schwelgerischen Vokalharmonien von "Love Comes Love Goes" unvermittelt Phil Kenzies fast schrilles Sax ein und bläst jeglichen Schwulst hinweg. Die launige Liebeshymne "Little Darlin" ist durchsetzt von prasselnder Percussion. In "Boomerang" vertreiben schneidende Rockriffs und rollende Drums das Liebesleid, und "Barbados" gerät zum flotten Vehikel für Karibiksehnsüchte. Das akustische "Crazy Love" umhüllt unaufdringlich zarter synthetischer Streicherflor, "The Last Goodbye" steigert sich zum bittersüßen Mellow Rock-Refrain und der Titel- song rockt kraftvoll. Die stilistische Verwandschaft zu den Eagles dringt am stärksten im sanften Rock-Groove von "Heart Of The Night" durch. Der so sauberen wie dynamischen Analogaufnahme entlockt der Laser auf der Mid- price-CD Details prägnanter.
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Review by Bruce Eder
Poco's biggest-selling album of all time also presented the biggest personnel change at one time for the then-decade-old group, whose lineup had hardly been a model of stability up to that time. Co-founding drummer/singer George Grantham and longtime bassist/singer Timothy B. Schmit were both gone, the latter off to the Eagles. Listening to parts of this album, one gets the sense that, with the arrival of Charlie Harrison (bass, harmony vocals) and Steve Chapman (drums) in the group, Poco was deliberately adopting a change in sound similar to what the Eagles went through when Joe Walsh joined, into much harder rocking territory, at least part of the time. Longtime fans were probably disheartened to hear Rusty Young and Paul Cotton give up any semblance of their country roots on the opening track, "Boomerang," a bracing, heavy rock number (for this band) that didn't sound a great deal like the Poco of previous years. Most of the rest of the album, however, was closer to what one wanted and expected from this band — "Spellbound" a beautifully lyrical ballad that benefited from Young's instrumental range and his and Cotton's harmonizing, and Cotton's "Barbados" offering similarly alluring musical textures with more of a beat. Cotton's "Heart of the Night," however, dominated everything around it, as one of the most finely crafted songs in the group's history, highlighted by a beautiful sax solo from Phil Kenzie. And then there's "Crazy Love" (composed by Rusty Young), with its soft, ethereal textures, which was a little lightweight for this band but unassuming enough to dominate the adult contemporary charts at the time. Young's "The Last Goodbye" and "Legend" closed out the album on a more thickly textured, higher-wattage note, representing the group's newer sound, the latter with a memorably driving beat that, with "Boomerang," bookended the album.