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...feels." Three more songs were played in rapid succession: "It's a Good Mornin'," "Railroad Days," and "Old Forgiver," gone almost before they could sink in. "It's a Good Mornin" is country funk, the hard core of the Poco music, "Railroad Days" and "Old Forgiver" belong to new guitarist Paul Cotton, who replaced tour-weary Jim Messina about a year ago. Cotton's work is more rock 'n' roll musically than Furay's, and his lyrics lean towards introspection...
Poco is just about all country rock music made by deceptively good musicians. The most significant improvement over last year's performance is the emergence of Paul Cotton as a lead guitarist, allowing the band to stretch out some of the songs. "Keeper of the Fire," with its insistent rhythms, and the stretched out "C'mon," now closing the show, gave him a chance to show his abilities. Cotton is not Dicky Betts, or Eric Clapton, but his rock lines, though predictable, are more than adequate. He's also a very fine country rock guitarist, a genre which demands special...
...POCO REALLY functions on Richie Furay's limitless energy. Furay is the embodiment of how much fun it is to play rock 'n' roll for people. He must be a joy to play lead guitar for--he's one of the finest rhythm guitarists playing. Laugh not--playing good rhythm is tough, because you're responsible for pushing the lead guitarist to whatever heights he's trying to achieve, as well as keeping the music on an even keel by keeping the time and most of the beat, and most importantly, filling out the sound as though there...
...story of the wayward son returning home. Its music is more coherent, probably because it's actually the Faces! Musically, the song features the chording that Ronnie Wood's strongest talent, along with the fuzzy, percussive sound that is his most distinguishing feature. Wood is a very good guitarist, but, since he's not flamboyant, nobody notices. The song's ending is typically Faces, the chording they do so well over one of Kenny Jones's peculiarly syncopated rhythms, with the sound effect of a sports car going through four gears under...
...music itself was mediocre to ordinary; ordinary from the rhythm section and mediocre from the guitars. Lead guitarist Amos Garrett cannot hold a phrase on his instrument, which essentially means that he can't play a decent fill between phrases of the vocal, the most fundamental aspect of playing blues guitar. Its overall listen ability was a combination of general enjoyment and the knowledge that there's really not much you can do to the 12 bar blues format. "Walking Blues" opened the set and set its Chicago blues tone. Muldaur's songs, mercifully, were all together, so they were...