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Remembering Rusty Young A number of WRTC hosts will be paying tribute to Poco guitarist Rusty Young who passed away on April 14 at the age of 75. Saturday’s edition of Greasy Tracks will be doing a segment of live performances by Poco, the band that Young helped found in 1968. The program airs 2:30-5:30 p.m. The April 19 version of The Devo Rock Show and the April 21 Boris Rock Show will include music featuring Young as well as an interview Devo and Boris did with him in 2009 where he discusses how the band was formed. The programs air 9 a.m.-noon.

By Dewayne Wells Rusty Young, one of the founding members of the legendary group Poco, passed away on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at his home in Davisville, Missouri.He was 75. Rusty was the only Poco member to be a part of all the band’s various lineups over the years.He wrote and sang lead on the group’s biggest hit, “Crazy Love” in 1979. Richie Furay of Poco said, "My heart is saddened; he was a dear and longtime friend who help me pioneer and create a new Southern California musical sound called 'country rock.' He was an innovator on the steel guitar and carried th...

  Article Contributed by SRO | Published on Thursday, April 1, 2021 RICHIE FURAY tomorrow (4/2) will release his much-anticipated double live album 50TH ANNIVERSARY RETURN TO THE TROUBADOUR via DSDK Productions, distributed by MRI Entertainment, via streaming platforms. Both the physical CD and the DVD of the concert film will be available April 23. Listen here to the album via streaming platforms starting tomorrow. A SPECIAL EDITION autographed CD and DVD are available for presale here. This week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee--one of the chief architects of the country rock g...

February 22, 2021 284 Today is Tuesday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2021. There are 311 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. On this date: In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore. In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States. In 1942, the first shelling of the U.S. mainl...

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