Poco - Blue and Gray
#580
July 1 1981
Poco
Blue and Gray
Genre: Country Rock
2 out of 5
Leave it to Poco to make a dull concept album about the Civil War.
It’s one mid-tempo ballad after another. The closing “Land of Glory” wants so badly to rise to the level of Springsteen but it suffers from it’s own mediocrity to get there.
I’m infatuated with the Civil War. There’s an amazing record to be made about it. This is not it.
Missed:? Are you kidding?
Poco - Under the Gun
July 1980
Poco
Under the Gun
Genre: Late 70s style rock trying…
2.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Under the Gun
Poco’s 1980 offering starts off with a bang. He he he. The guitars are actually crunchier than I expected from a band I have always thought of as a soft rock outfit.
From there, though, it dries out with predictability. I imagine the bass player in this band is either so incredibly bored or obsessively adores playing the most repetitive garbage.
It’s just a really boring record.
