[2022-03-25] Various Artists "My Friend: A Tribute To Rusty Young" (Blue Elan)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2022 8:55 pm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q6G54RF/?tag=imwan-20

Description
My Friend: A Tribute to Rusty Young celebrates and highlights the legacy of Rusty Young, the late co-founder of country-rock band Poco. Plans for a tribute album were already underway before Young suddenly passed away on April 14, 2021. Unfortunately, Young was never able to hear the renditions of his iconic songs that were recorded by this talented group of artists. As Kirk Pasich, Blue Elan founder and the album’s producer comments in the album's liner notes, “Beginning in 2017, Rusty was, in many ways, the heart and soul of our label.”

Pasich goes on to explain the album process, “In putting this album together, we didn’t try to duplicate what Rusty did—the originals of those songs that he and Poco recorded will always be among my favorites and we saw no reason to clone them. Instead, we asked artists to pick the songs of Rusty’s that they’d like to record and to make them their own.”

Artists contributing to the project include Rusty’s labelmates Jesse Dayton, Janiva Magness, Chelsea Williams, Colin Devlin, Mustangs of the West, Roan Yellowthorn and Bob Gentry. Additional artists include Sam Morrow, the Orchid Quartet, Mary Scholz and Taylor John Williams along with the newly formed Cimarron 615 featuring Tom Hampton (Poco), Bill Lloyd (Foster & Lloyd, Sky Kings), Rick Lonow (Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco), Jack Sundrud (Great Plains, Poco) and Michael Webb (Poco).

Tracklist
1. Seasons Overture - Orchid Quartet
2. Rough Edges - Cimarron 615
3. Rocky Mountain Breakdown - The Blue Elan Family
4. Crooked Road - The Mustangs Of The West
5. If You Can't Stand To Lose - Bob Gentry
6. Call It Love - Cimarron 615
7. If Your Heart Needs A Hand - Janiva Magness
8. Old Hat - Cimarron 615
9. One Tear At A Time - Roan Yellowthorn
10. Rose of Cimarron - Jesse Dayton
11. Regret - Colin Devlin
12. Gonna' Let The Rain - Sam Morrow
13. While We're Still Young - Mary Scholz, Taylor John Williams
14. Crazy Love - Chelsea Williams
15. My Friend - Cimarron 615
16. Where Did The Time Go? - Cimarron 615

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

would be great to have neil young doing 'neil young is not my brother'.

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2022 1:10 pm

Neil Young doesn't appear on this album, but here are a couple of samples:

[2022-03-25] Various Artists "My Friend: A Tribute To Rusty Young" (Blue Elan)

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