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To: MacNaughton

Also missing from the list is "In the Heart of the Night" by Poco.

I saw them many years ago in El Paso, they were the opening act for Little River Band. Great, great concert.

6 posted on 11/16/2020 1:33:35 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

Poco’s “Bad Weather” made #15 on the link.


8 posted on 11/16/2020 1:38:41 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: Night Hides Not; All

Shame on you! How can you mention Poco and not list their greatest song ever...

Crazy Eyes, from the album of the same name.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpQh8hWzj4

A pox on all your 2nd cousins and I hope all your kids are born NEKKID!...lol

The song A Right Along is on the same album, uses something called a Melobar. Melobar is a slide guitar made to be played similar to a lap steel, but, standing up. Body is similar to a Mosrite, the neck is angled, so you can play it with a slide bar palm down, same as a lap steel. It had 10 strings.

A Right Along

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBeSC6c6vE

Melobar

https://melobarted.blogspot.com/p/identify-melobar-models.html?m=1

And by the way, Jim Messina was an original member of Poco, and their bass player on the Crazy Eyes and several other albums was Timothy B Schmidt, later to join the Eagles, still with them I think. I know the Eagles did some songs using pedal steel, but I damned if i can think of which ones.

Dobro - Lynyrd SKynyrd, The Ballad of Curtis Loew

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GSvKkMs2ieo

Tried to think of some other dobro songs, I’m drawing a blank.


55 posted on 11/17/2020 11:57:43 AM PST by Paleo Pete (What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.)
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