Then in Colorado, my folks were big country music fans and they started me off on a steel guitar there wasn’t really pedal steel in the early fifties when I started playing steel guitar but it gradually came about and I learned to play pedal steel guitar in Colorado.
The truth is, when I was very, very little, my grandmother lived in Long Beach, California and we’d go there every summer and visit and she had a ukulele and I started playing the ukulele with my grandmother.
You started playing music when you were a small child but was pedal steel one of your first instruments? The solo shows are a little more challenging because it’s just me and I end up playing a lot of different instruments but both things are really a lot of fun. There are great guys playing in the band and it’s a lot of fun. At Poco shows, we do songs from 1968 through today so we have a lot of ground to cover. It’s the same with Poco as with me as a solo except I obviously do more things from my solo record. There are a couple, yes, besides the Poco shows Will you be playing any solo shows as well? But we’re about to go out and hit the road pretty hard for the rest of the year and play a lot of Poco shows and have some fun. Well, we just had a huge storm blow through here in Missouri (laughs). So what is happening in your word right now? Glide spoke to Young about his career, his new album and his continued strive to write positive songs. Poco, known for its uplifting harmonies, made their name in the seventies, scoring hits with “Crazy Love,” “Rose Of Cimarron” and “Heart Of The Night.” Young’s biggest contribution up until 1978’s Legend was as an instrumentalist, playing everything from banjo, mandolin and dobro to the pedal steel, which he picked up at an early age and which eventually propelled him into the Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame in 2013. “That was a very easy one to write.” “Down Home” is about living amongst the beauty of nature, as is the instrumental “Seasons ” “Sara’s Song” was written when his daughter got married and “Honey Bee” is a piano-fueled little ditty that features two more of his former bandmates, Jim Messina and drummer George Grantham. “Heaven Tonight,” is “Just a romantic song about me and my wife,” Young told me during our interview last week. “Most of all, I wanted to take people on a journey that was fun to listen to from the first note to the last.” “As the sole writer on this record, I got to visit all kinds of different places that relate to my musical heritage and experiences,” Young said when the album came out in September. Fifty years later, he has finally made an album of his own, Waitin’ For The Sun, with songs that reflect on his life, career and the harmony of the world around him. He was already a renowned pedal steel guitar player by then, having moved from Colorado to play on a song for Buffalo Springfield’s 1968 album Last Time Around. A song comes to you and you just have to write it down and not get in the way.”Ģ018 marks Young’s fiftieth year in the music business, most of them with Poco, whose biggest hit, “Crazy Love,” was one of his earliest attempts at writing a song with lyrics. “Sometimes as a songwriter, you just get lucky. “This song was a gift,” Young said when the video was released. Schmit and Richie Furay on the song with him.
For Poco’s Rusty Young, “My Friend” is the glistening star on his first solo album and since it’s about all the musicians who have come and gone in a band that began in the late 1960’s, he knew he had to have former bandmates Timothy B. It is a song custom made for a sunny spring afternoon, with its lilting melody and sweetly harmonic vocal trails, reminiscing about people who have made you smile over the years.
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