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Rusty Young A person wears a mask that says "Abolish the Police" at a gathering of Detroiters reacting to the news that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the murder of George Floyd. My name is Ryan Herberholz. I have lived in Detroit for more than a decade — I am an artist and a Wayne State graduate who cares deeply about this city. On April 18 Mitch Albom penned a column in the Detroit Free Press t...

Rusty Young, Country-Rock Pioneer, Is Dead at 75 As a founding member of the band Poco, he helped define a genre and establish the pedal steel guitar as an integral voice in West Coast rock. Rusty Young of the country-rock band Poco in Amsterdam in 1973.Credit...Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns By Bill Friskics-Warren April 17, 2021Updated 12:32 p.m. ET Rusty Young, a founding member of the popular country-rock group Poco and a key figure in establishing the pedal steel guitar as an integral voice in the West Coast rock of the late 1960s and ’70s, died on Wednesday at his home in Davisville, Mo....

George Grantham and bassist Pickin' Up the Pieces. Meisner was soon replaced by Timothy B. Schmit. In the early years of Poco, Rusty mainly contributed as an instrumentalist and occasional songwriter. The band underwent various lineup changes during the 1970s, with Messina and Furay exiting, respectively, in 1970 and '73. After Schmit left the band in 1977 -- to replace Meisner in the Eagles -- Young took on a bigger role in Poco, writing and singing more songs. In 1978, the band scored its first top-20 hit with "Crazy Love," a song written and sung by Rusty that peaked at #17 on the Bill...

Credit: Henry DiltzFounding Poco singer and multi-instrumentalist Rusty Young, known for his influential lap-steel guitar playing with the pioneering ...

Rusty Young, who co-founded the band Poco, has died, Fox News can confirm. He was 75. Per the outlet, Poco was formed in 1968 by Young, Richie Furay, Jim Messina, George Grantham and Randy Meisner, who was soon replaced by Timothy B. Schmit. 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.  Poco's current band members paid tribute to the late artist on Thursday. Bassist and vocalist Jack Sundrud ca...