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Prelude was a trio comprising Brian Hume (vocals, electric guitar), his wife Irene Hume (vocals) and Ian Vardy (guitars, vocals). Located in Britain, the group was midway between Peter, Paul & Mary and Crosby, Stills & Nash, with harmonies that rivaled the last mentioned for sweetness and tranquil elegance. They …

Richie Furay started his music career taking part in folk clubs like a single designer in the 1960s, in addition to with bands just like the Monks as well as the Au Move Move Singers (including Stephen Stills within the lineup). After conference Neil Youthful they created Buffalo Springfield with …

John Batdorf and Tag Rodney were a soft rock and roll duo of the first ’70s who produced three albums and reached the graphs with two singles, “You Certainly are a Music” and “Somewhere in the night time,” in 1975, then split, with Batdorf forming Metallic in 1976.

The genesis from the renowned short-lived country-rock group Nashville West came in the middle-’60s when multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons (no regards to Gram) and fiddler Gib Guilbeau, who had played together within a band called the Castaways years earlier, were earned to accomplish a Gosdin Brothers session. The Byrds’ Chris Hillman, …

Among the initial and longest-lasting country-rock groupings, Poco had their root base within the dying embers of Buffalo Springfield. After Neil Youthful and Stephen Stills, the co-founders of this group, exited within the springtime of 1968, just guitarist/vocalist Richie Furay and bassist Jim Messina continued to be to accomplish the …

Ideal remembered for the past due-’70s chart-topper “Baby KEEP COMING BACK,” Participant were shaped in LA in 1977 by singer/guitarist Peter Beckett (formerly from the U.K. group Skyband), bassist Ronn Moss, and guitarist/keyboardist J.C. Crowley. After adding drummer John Friesen, Participant agreed upon to impresario Robert Stigwood’s RSO label and …

Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina were probably the most effective pop/rock and roll duo from the initial fifty percent of the ’70s. Loggins was an employee songwriter who got recently enjoyed achievement with several songs recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Music group when he found the eye of Messina, …

Russell Smith followed up an effective run while vocalist and guitarist using the Amazing Tempo Aces with a far more thriving business like a Nashville songwriter. Additionally, a number of nation and pop documenting artists have used Smith’s finely honed vocal stylings inside a history or visitor vocalist capability. Smith …

This artist rose to prominence in the late ’60s and ’70s as you of a small number of pedal steel guitarists shifting their instrument from the country barn and in to the rock garage, as they say. It was in fact something of the rootsy move, since Rusty Young’s history …

The mellow, easy country-rock sounds of Firefall, in conjunction with the group’s penchant for pop melodies and high-pitched harmonies, produced some successful LPs in the later ’70s and some chart singles, like the TOP hit “You Will be the Woman.” The group was produced by former Traveling Burrito Sibling Rick …