The Last Roundup (album)
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- This article is about the PocoPocoPoco is an Southern California country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The title of their first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, is a reference to the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Highly influential and creative,...
album. For the Gene AutryGene AutryOrvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
album, see The Last Round Up.
The Last Roundup is the 21st album, and 3rd live album, by the Country rock
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...
band Poco
Poco
Poco is an Southern California country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The title of their first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, is a reference to the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Highly influential and creative,...
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Recorded live in July 1977 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the Indian Summer
Indian Summer (album)
Indian Summer is an album by Carbon Leaf released on July 13, 2004, on the Vanguard Records label. Carbon Leaf's first major-label release, Indian Summer brought the band more popular attention and national radio airplay, especially the first two tracks on the album.-Track listing:All songs by...
tour, it was intended to be the band's 13th album. However, its release was cancelled by ABC Records
ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....
after Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...
left the band to join The Eagles. Poco had intended this album to counteract the damage done to the band's career by the release of Poco Live
Live (Poco album)
Poco Live is the tenth album, and second live album, by the country rock band Poco. The material for this album had been recorded for Epic Records shortly after the Cantamos album, but it was not released until over a year later, after Poco's success with the Head Over Heels album...
by their former label, and Richie Furay
Richie Furay
Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner...
made a special guest appearance on the album in an effort to boost the album's appeal. It contains mainly music from the post-Furay era. This was Furay's first appearance with the group since his departure after Crazy Eyes
Crazy Eyes
Crazy Eyes is the sixth album by the country rock band Poco. The album pays homage to Gram Parsons, as Richie Furay sings both the title track, which he wrote in honor of Parsons, and one of Parsons' own compositions, "Brass Buttons". The album was released just four days before Parsons' death on...
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Track listing
- "Living In The Band" (Paul Cotton) – 3:15
- "Dallas" (Donald FagenDonald FagenDonald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan ....
, Walter BeckerWalter BeckerWalter Carl Becker is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and a co-writer of Steely Dan.-Career:...
) – 3:34 - "Magnolia" (J.J. CaleJ.J. CaleJJ Cale , born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has...
) – 6:45 - "Honky Tonk Downstairs" (Dallas Frazier) – 2:44
- "P.N.S. (When You Come Around)" (Paul Cotton) – 3:16
- "Sagebrush Serenade" (Rusty Young) – 3:12
- "Indian Summer" (Paul Cotton) – 4:22
- "Too Many Nights Too Long" (Paul Cotton) – 5:20
- "Starin’ At The Sky" (Timothy B. Schmit, John "Juke" LoganJohn "Juke" LoganJohn "Juke" Logan is an American electric blues harmonica player, singer, pianist and songwriter. He is best known for his harmonica playing on the theme music for television programs and films...
) – 2:55 - "Twenty Years" (Paul Cotton) – 4:54
- "The Dance: When the Dance Is Over / Go On And Dance / Never Gonna Stop / When The Dance Is Over (Reprise)" (Rusty Young) – 9:59
- "Keep On Tryin’" (Timothy B. Schmit) – 2:43
- "Hoe Down / Slow Poke" (Richie Furay & Rusty Young / Rusty Young) – 4:15
- "Rose Of Cimarron" (Rusty Young) – 5:34
Personnel
- Paul CottonPaul Cotton (musician)Paul Cotton is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, most notable as a member of the band Poco and as the writer of the international hit song from that band, "The Heart of the Night".-History:Most of Paul Cotton's music career has been as songwriter, guitarist and singer for the band Poco...
- guitar, vocals - Rusty Young - steel guitar, guitar, vocals
- Timothy B. SchmitTimothy B. SchmitTimothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...
- bass, vocals - George Grantham - drums, vocals
- Richie FurayRichie FurayRichie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner...
– vocals on “Magnolia,” vocals and guitar on "Hoe Down / Slow Poke"
Production
- Producer: PocoPocoPoco is an Southern California country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The title of their first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, is a reference to the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Highly influential and creative,...
, Mark Henry Harman