Cantamos

Cantamos Artist: Poco
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 664140319226
EAN: 0664140319226
ASIN: B000093FKR


Release Date: 2003-04-22

Cantamos


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Tracks:

  1. Sagebrush Serenade
  2. Susannah
  3. High and Dry
  4. Western Waterloo
  5. One Horse Blue
  6. Bitter Blue
  7. Another Time Around
  8. Whatever Happened to Your Smile
  9. All the Ways

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Album Description

Reissue of 1974 album from Wounded Bird for the country rock act. This album marks the emergence of Rusty Young as a composer of merit. Side one rocks out hard and fresh while the second side deals with lost love and broken-hearted romance. Much of the magic of their earlier albums has been recaptured. 9 tracks. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Poco Marches On.......2005-12-05

On Cantamos, Poco shows that they did indeed have life after the departure of founder Richie Furay. Cantamos is significant in the history of Poco in that it signals the arrival of Rusty Young as a songwriter as he does an excellent job of filling the songwriting gap left by Furay. The strength of the new material by Young in conjunction with the contributions of Paul Cotton and Tim Schmit result in the strongest song set since the classic "A Good Feelin' to Know" album.

Cantamos provides a vehicle for Poco to show the full range of their talents. Cotton does what he does best, delivering rockers like "Western Waterloo" and "One Horse Blue." Schmit's "What Ever Happened to Your Smile" falls right in line with the relatively laid back acoustic tunes that he specializes in. But it is the great Rusty Young who provides the highlights on Cantamos. The album opens and closes with Young classics "Sagebrush Serenade" and "All the Ways" and his "High and Dry" provides both the literal and figurative centerpiece. "Sagebrush" and "High and Dry" also provide an opportunity for Young to blow us away with his superhuman skills on the pedal steel guitar.

Cantamos has a little bit of everything for Poco fans - great harmonies, lots of energy, and great guitar and pedal steel work. Most importantly, it offers us a peak at things to come; Grantham, Cotton, Schmit and Young were not finished with creating some great music and Poco was ready to carry on a great tradition and were still very much at home on the throne as the kings of country-rock.

5 out of 5 stars DEFINITELY THE BEST POCO ALBUM OF THE 1970S.......2005-04-02

When I borrowed the lps "A GOOD FEELING TO KNOW," "SEVEN" (my least favorite album), and this album from my oldest brother-in-law, I heard the best mixture of country, bluegrass, folk, and rock and roll on CANTAMOS. My only complaint is that if RUSTY YOUNG did not sing any lead vocal on the outstanding songs he wrote for this album, that was a major mistake because he had and has a much more calm and relaxing voice than bass guitarist TIM SCHMIT. Meanwhile, TIM'S BITTER BLUE is an excellent acoustic song with his low-pitch lead vocal, harmony vocals, steel and lead guitar riffs by RUSTY and PAUL COTTON, but his WHATEVER HAPPENED TO YOUR SMILE is the best song I have ever heard by TIM. Plus, it has an excellent tone of his lead vocal, dobro and steel guitar by RUSTY, the acoustic and lead guitar by PAUL, and harmony vocals by the band, and it even outdoes his future EAGLES hit "I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY." PAUL'S "ONE HORSE BLUE" is the best song he has written and sung for the band that features blasting banjo and steel guitar riffs by RUSTY, excellent guitar riffs lead vocal by PAUL, drums by GEORGE GRANTHAM, bass guitar by TIM, and harmony vocals by the band. His "SUSANNAH" is also an excellent acoustic ballad with the harmony vocals, dobro and steel guitar by RUSTY. His WESTERN WATERLOO is a excellent country/folk/rock song with his lead vocal and guitar riffs, RUSTY'S banjo and pedal steel guitar riffs, tim's bas guitar riffs, GEORGE'S drumming, and the band's harmony vocals. ANOTHER TIME AROUND is a excellent rock song with dobro and lead guitar riffs by RUSTY and PAUL. Now comes the best songs RUSTY has written. His "SAGEBRUSH SERENADE" is a outstanding beginning with the acoustic guitars, vocals, and pedal steel guitar at the beginning of the song, and then come the blasting banjo, dobro and pedal steel guitar by RUSTY, lead guitar by PAUL, drums by GEORGE GRANTHAM, and bass guitar by TIM that kick the song into high-gear overdrive ya truckers. His "HIGH AND DRY" is an excellent song with the harmony vocals, the acoustic electric, and bass guitar riffs, and the drums. "ALL THE WAY" is excellent too. It features laid-back vocals, crisp sounding acoustic guitar by RUSTY and PAUL'S lead guitar riffs. Furthermore, I once played my 12-string acoustic guitar while I listened to this album on my stereo. Overall, this is a must have for all the pre-LEGEND POCO fans.

5 out of 5 stars Stunning Country Rock that should be owned by all Fans.......2004-01-19

In terms of the Country Rock genre, you simply need this album. The singing and playing on Cantamos makes all their previous albums and future pale into comparison except perhaps "Seven" The major highlight is Rusty Young`s emergence as a song writer. His efforts are some of the strongest on what is a very even high qulity album. "Sagebrush Serenade" which effectively marries, Bluegrass, High Harmonies and Country Rock together and High and Dry which is straight Country Rock, sung by Tim Schmit will leave you wanting more. Paul Cotton has major highlights, "Western Waterloo", Another Time Around are lyrical improvements and really rock out. Tim Schmit has Bitter Blue which continues his growth as a songwriter and has the more commercial "Whatever Happened to your smile?" The strongest song on the album is All the Ways which is quite simply a classic. Realistically this is as strong an album as Poco ever did and one which I would strongly recommend to all Eagles, JD Souther, James Taylor fans as an example of how good Country Rock did get in the early mid `70`s.

5 out of 5 stars The Last, Great POCO Album..........2003-06-19

Sure, other albums that followed are good (Head Over Heels, Rose of Cimmaron and Legend), but Cantamos is the last all around "Great" Poco album with the classic Poco sound (Banjo pickin', superb pedal steel, breakdowns/hoe down feeling to some of the songs, and smooth vocalizing from Schmitt and Cotton)

Highlights for me are "Sagebrush Seranade", "High And Dry", "Another Time Around", and "Whatever Happened To Your Smile". But the whole album is superb.

Not a bad "Post Furay" Poco album.

One of the best! Get it!

5 out of 5 stars

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