Poco - Under The Gun - Vinyl Album
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal with promo punch in jacket
MCA Records 1980 MCA-5132

One of the first and longest-lasting country-rock groups, Poco had their roots in the dying embers of Buffalo Springfield. After Neil Young and Stephen Stills, the co-founders of that group, exited in the spring of 1968, only guitarist/singer Richie Furay and bassist Jim Messina remained to complete the group's swan song, Last Time Around. The final Springfield track, "Kind Woman," included only Furay and Messina, with a guest appearance on steel guitar by Rusty Young -- at the time, he was something of a rarity as a talented lap-steel guitarist who was comfortable working in a rock idiom, and had previously belonged to a folk-rock-turned-psychedelic band called Boenzee Cryque. Young stuck with Furay and Messina, in the process skipping a scheduled audition for a new group that ex-Byrds member Gram Parsons was putting together. Auditions followed before the fledgling group reached out, at Young's urging, to ex-Boenzee Cryque drummer/vocalist George Grantham, and also to bassist/singer Randy Meisner, who had previously played with a band called the Poor. This lineup rehearsed for four months before making their debut at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, in November of 1968. A month later, they made their first appearance at the Fillmore West on a bill with the Steve Miller Band and Sly & the Family Stone.

Abum Credits:
Rusty Young Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Steel), Vocals
Kim Bullard Keyboards, Vocals
Steve Chapman Drums
Joe Chiccarelli Engineer, Recording, Mixing
Mike Flicker Producer
Steve Forman Percussion
Charlie Harrison Bass, Vocals
Phil Kenzie Saxophone
Paul Cotton Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals

Track Listing
Under The Gun
While We're Still Young
The Everlasting Kind
Down To The Wire
Footsteps Of A Fool (Shaky Ground)
Reputation
Midnight Rain
A Fool's Paradise
Friends In The Distance
Made Of Stone