Poco
Featuring members of Buffalo Springfield and Eagles, Poco helped pioneer
California's country-rock sound during the late 1960s and 1970s. The group
formed in Los Angeles in 1968, with guitar players Richie Furay and Jim Messina
— both former members of the folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield, which had
broken up earlier that same year — recruiting steel guitarist Rusty Young,
bassist Randy Meisner, and drummer George Grantham to complete the lineup.
Meisner left the group in 1969 and later became a founding member of Eagles. He
was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, who would also lea...
