Singer, songwriter and pedal steel guitar player "Rusty" Young, co-founder of the country-rock band Poco, passed away of a heart attack on April 14th. He was 75.
Young co-founded Poco along with Richie Furay and Jim Messina in 1969 following the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield. Young had been the band's roadie and was asked to play pedal steel guitar on the Furay penned "Kind Woman" which was the last song on the final Buffalo Springfield album Last Time Around. Young would play his pedal steel guitar through a Leslie speaker which gave it the effect of sounding like a Hammond B3 organ.
Although Furay and Messina were initially the star players in Poco, Young was the group's constant member appearing on all 19 of their albums and would write and sing on Poco's two biggest hits - "Rose of Cimarron" and "Crazy Love". I leave you with Young later in lifie singing "Crazy Love" on his own. R.I.P.
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