Rusty Young, Poco co-founder and longtime frontman, dead at 75 - Fox News

Apr 16, 2021

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Rusty Young, who co-founded the band Poco, has died, Fox News can confirm.

Over its 50-plus-year history, Young was the only original band member to stay with Poco.

Although Young had planned to retire over the years, iterations of the country-rock group went on with Young leading the band, according to Variety. .

Schmidt, Jim Messina, Rich Furay, George Grantham, Rusty Young of Poco on September 15, 1970.

Singer Rusty Young of the band Poco performs onstage at The Canyon Club on November 10, 2017, in Agoura Hills, California

In a 2014 interview with Goldmine, Young said: "I think things went the way they were supposed to go

We did have a big hit in 1978, and if it hadn’t been for Richie (Furay) leaving the band, and Timmy (Schmit) leaving the band, and Jimmy (Jim Messina)  leaving the band, I never would have been a songwriter or a singer, so those things had to happen for my life to be the life it is

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