Blue & Gray

Poco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: One Way Records
• ASIN: B000002R30
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,893 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Glorybound

2. Blue And Gray

3. Streets Of Paradise

4. The Writing On The Wall

5. Down On The River Again

6. Please Wait For Me

7. Widowmaker

8. Here Comes That Girl Again

9. Sometimes (We Are All We Got)

10. The Land Of Glory

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The single greatest post-Richie Furay Poco album. Inexcusable for this to be out of print., October 11, 2009

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Mike (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue & Gray (Audio CD)

At this point, Richie Furay is long gone, and Timothy B. Schmidt has jumped ship for the more lucrative waters of The Eagles.

As such, it's the "Cowboys & Englishmen" alignment of the band, fronted by Paul Cotton and Rusty Young, with:

Charlie Harrison - bass, vocals
Steve Chapman - drums
Kim Bullard - keyboards, vocals
Clydie King - backing vocals
Denise DeCaro - backing vocals
Venetta Fields - backing vocals
Steve Forman - percussion

The "Civil War" theme is nothing more than a foundation for some of the band's strongest songs, including "Glorybound," "Streets Of Paradise," "Please Wait For Me," and "Here Comes That Girl Again."

It is one of the strongest albums in the band's career. There may be individual songs on other albums that hit a higher mark, but there are few from start to finish that match this one. Five stars, no question. Time for a re-release.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Complete Story, March 12, 2002

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Daniel Winegarden (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue & Gray (Audio CD)

Like the Eagle's Desperado, Poco's Blue and Gray is thematic and tells a consistent story. Desperado was the American West. Blue and Gray evokes the American Civil War. It compares extremely favorably with other country rock efforts and Poco's own more commercially successful albums. As an album this is easily my favorite Poco album. Streets of Paradise, Gloybound and The Land of Glory move me still after many listenings and now many years since the first time in 1981. This is one of those you wish you could expose more. While Legend is why I started buying Poco albums, Blue and Gray is why I still love Poco.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great concept album, September 10, 2004

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RKL (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue & Gray (Audio CD)

Poco writes about the war between the 'blue and the gray' on this disc and crafts some very good tracks: 1,2,6,7,8. These are the best tracks in my opinion and performances are first-rate. I can't imagine any other band writing an album about this topic in the detail presented here. Each track tells a specific story.

Sound quality is excellent, very clean and detailed. A hard disc to find maybe but well worth owning. Full lyrics/credits. 10 tracks/37.27. This title and 'Legend' fit nicely on a 80 minute cdr.