Cantamos

Poco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• ASIN: B000093FKR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,438 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of 1974 album from Wounded Bird for the country rock act. This album marks the emergence of Rusty Young as a composer of merit. Side one rocks out hard and fresh while the second side deals with lost love and broken-hearted romance. Much of the ma

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Country Rock that should be owned by all Fans, January 18, 2004

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Mitchell Howard ""the People's Friend"" (Havelock North, NZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cantamos (Audio CD)

In terms of the Country Rock genre, you simply need this album. The singing and playing on Cantamos makes all of Poco's previous albums, and future, pale into comparison, except perhaps "Seven." The major highlight is Rusty Young`s emergence as a song writer. His efforts are some of the strongest, on what is a very even, high quality album. "Sagebrush Serenade" which effectively marries, Bluegrass, High Harmonies and Country Rock together and High and Dry which is straight Country Rock, sung by Tim Schmit will leave you wanting more. Paul Cotton has major highlights, "Western Waterloo", Another Time Around, are lyrical improvements and really rock out. Tim Schmit has Bitter Blue which continues his growth as a songwriter and has the more commercial singalong "Whatever Happened to your smile?" The strongest song on the album is "All the Ways" which is quite simply a classic. Realistically this is as strong an album as Poco ever did and one which I would strongly recommend to all Eagles, JD Souther, James Taylor fans as an example of how good Country Rock did get in the early mid `70`s.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last, Great POCO Album..., June 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cantamos (Audio CD)

Sure, other albums that followed are good (Head Over Heels, Rose of Cimmaron and Legend), but Cantamos is the last all around "Great" Poco album with the classic Poco sound (Banjo pickin', superb pedal steel, breakdowns/hoe down feeling to some of the songs, and smooth vocalizing from Schmitt and Cotton)

Highlights for me are "Sagebrush Seranade", "High And Dry", "Another Time Around", and "Whatever Happened To Your Smile". But the whole album is superb.

Not a bad "Post Furay" Poco album.

One of the best! Get it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poco Marches On, December 4, 2005

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This review is from: Cantamos (Audio CD)

On Cantamos, Poco shows that they did indeed have life after the departure of founder Richie Furay. Cantamos is significant in the history of Poco in that it signals the arrival of Rusty Young as a songwriter as he does an excellent job of filling the songwriting gap left by Furay. The strength of the new material by Young in conjunction with the contributions of Paul Cotton and Tim Schmit result in the strongest song set since the classic "A Good Feelin' to Know" album.

Cantamos provides a vehicle for Poco to show the full range of their talents. Cotton does what he does best, delivering rockers like "Western Waterloo" and "One Horse Blue." Schmit's "What Ever Happened to Your Smile" falls right in line with the relatively laid back acoustic tunes that he specializes in. But it is the great Rusty Young who provides the highlights on Cantamos. The album opens and closes with Young classics "Sagebrush Serenade" and "All the Ways" and his "High and Dry" provides both the literal and figurative centerpiece. "Sagebrush" and "High and Dry" also provide an opportunity for Young to blow us away with his superhuman skills on the pedal steel guitar.

Cantamos has a little bit of everything for Poco fans - great harmonies, lots of energy, and great guitar and pedal steel work. Most importantly, it offers us a peak at things to come; Grantham, Cotton, Schmit and Young were not finished with creating some great music and Poco was ready to carry on a great tradition and were still very much at home on the throne as the kings of country-rock.