Crazy Eyes

Artist: Poco
Label: Digital Sound
Category: Music

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Media: DVD Audio
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 710215442228
EAN: 0710215442228
ASIN: B000007SIX

Release Date: 1997-11-25

Crazy Eyes

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Tracks:

Blue Water
Fools Gold
Here We Go Again
Brass Buttons
A Right Along
Crazy Eyes
Magnolia
Let's Dance Tonight

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Customer Reviews:

Disappointing in Many Ways.......2005-11-04

This follow-up to the classic "Good Feeling to Know" is a very disappointing release for many reasons. It was founder Richie Furay's final appearance on a Poco album and the material and production is just not that strong. Furay's "Let's Dance Tonight" is a nice rocker, featuring some great steel guitar by Rusty Young. Paul Cotton's cover of JJ Cale's "Magnolia" is also very good, as is his rocker "A Right Along". After that the quality drops dramatically. Most disappointing are Furay's cover of the Gram Parsons song "Brass Buttons" and his own "Crazy Eyes", a tribute to Parsons.

Poco recorded enough material for a double album and some of the rejected tunes were much stronger than those that ended up on "Crazy Eyes", showing that the band still were among the best in the business. By this time Furay's attention was clearly elsewhere and he soon left the band he founded to try to find greener pastures. As a swan song, "Crazy Eyes" is not worthy of the great legacy of the Furay era of Poco.

just buy it and enjoy........2005-04-15

i have followed these guys from day one. i have seen them, met them and i love them. you will love this album. a true masterpiece, perhaps their "rubber soul". they are unique, rusty young's steel is: words fail me, just buy it and listen.

It Just Can Not Be Improved On!.......2004-11-20

I totally agree with reviewer Randy, this is an exceptional, almost sublime bit of music, whether "album" or "cd." From Paul Cotton's spoken "get it" as a "here we GO!" intro into "Blue Water," a song the Rolling Stones would be proud to include in THEIR repitoire, thru multi-instruemtalist's Rusty Young's "Fools Gold" (I do believe that with the exception of Charlie<"Upchurch?">Daniels' fiddle, Bob Ezrin's piano, and Chris Hillman's mandolin...well, I KNOW it was Rusty playing all the instruments, we saw them at @#$%, upstate NY!), thru Tim Schmitt's "Here We Go Again" (for my money, Tim always contributed the very best song on Poco's albums), and, finishing up with Richey Furay contributing a better version of Gram Parsons' "Brass Buttons" than anyone else - probably even the late, great Gram himself. And that's just side one! In all honesty, I'd never made it past those for songs, thinking "perfection just cannot be improved upon." However, my Wife, my conscience, LOVES to play CD's all the way thru, and "A Right Along" is reminisicent of Paul Cotton's work on "A Good Feeling To Know," and "Crazy Eyes," Magnolia," and "Let's Dance Tonight" are all top notch, too, especially the instrumentation on "Magnolia"
I want to go on record right here: THIS "incarnation" of Poco was INFINITELY better the wh**rish, "more contemporary" Eagles EVER were, and "Crazy Eyes" proves that point. I mean, dig, did Poco EVER do a...disco song? I rest my case...

Saddle up for a wild ride!.......2004-09-25

So here it is, the forgotten opus of the classic (though not original) POCO line-up (1970-73). Some hail this as the holy grail of country rock, others find it mediocre or overblown. The truth about this cd is that it is like a drive across Canada: full of excitement at times and rather bland and uneventful for most of the journey. Most of the tunes on Crazy Eyes tread through the trails that the band blazed on their previous cds, so it lacks the excitment and adventure of their early releases. There's nothing bad here, but it does seem like POCO by numbers, except for two stellar, stand-out tracks: the title track, Furay's "crazy eyes" and Schmit's "here we go again".

"Crazy Eyes", the tune, is absolutely phenomenal. Clocking in at over nine minutes, it certain proved that POCO were ready to kick down more saloon doors by taking country inspired music to places it had never been before. Furay & the band are in top form on this song, which includes beautiful orchestration, banjo breaks, poetic lyrics and seriously Wagnerian overtones in the songs structure. It swoops and dives with emotion, each cresendo smashing through the speakers. This is music that is meant to be played very loud, preferably around midnight!

Schmit's "here we go again" is the exact opposite of Furay's title track. This tune is simple, rootsy country rock at its finest. It has a fabulous sing along, foot stompin' vibe that would have made it an amazing inclusion on POCO's A Good Feeling To Know cd.

Crazy Eyes is a decent cd, with two AMAZING songs. I would recommend other POCO releases first, most notibly A Good Feeling To Know, which contains everything that y'all could love about the mighty POCO.

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