Poco began its revered existence in 1969 with the release of Pickin’ Up The Pieces. At that time, the band was comprised of Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young, all previously of Buffalo Springfield (Rusty Young was Buffalo Springfield’s Road Manager), and joined by Randy Meisner, and George Grantham. The lineup would change throughout various album releases but the strength of the band would remain evident, as well as the reality that Poco helped to shape the emergence of Country Rock, and leading to other bands of the genre.
On August 30, UK’s premier reissue and assembly label, Cherry Red, will release a 5CD Box celebrating the second part of Poco’s Epic Records years. This represented period extends from 1972 with the band’s 4th album, A Good Feelin’ To Know, until their last studio, Cantamos (1975), and their last official Epic release of Live in 1976, a year after the band’s switch to ABC Records. It will be listed as The Epic Years 1972-1976.
This box will provide the four studio sets (A Good Feelin’ To Know, Crazy Eyes, Seven, Cantamos), and the band’s second Live album. A set of five distributed bonus tracks will be tucked into the first and second CD titles. Those include a remix of “I Can See Everything”, and the single edit for “A Good Feelin’ To Know” on the first set, and “Nothin’s Still The Same”, “Get In The Wind”, “Believe Me” from the second CD title.