Review
ENJOYING POCO’S OLD FAVORITES AND SOME NEW ONES
By Jay Moulton, The Chattanoogan
A touch of warm, spirited nostalgia pervaded the humid air early Friday evening on the first night of this year’s Riverbend Festival. That nostalgia was brought to us via the melodic tunes and harmonies of a long time favorite of many music lovers – Poco. I arrived near the bandstand was breaking into one of their many hit songs.
While I’m not a Poco aficionado I can admit to being old enough to have heard many of their tunes on their airwaves over the years. The band was kind enough to give the audience what they came for and that, most definitely, was a big helping of the band’s older hits, but they also dipped into a song from their newest collection. The CD “Running Horse” is available on the band’s offical website, which one can readily access by googling. One song from the new CD, “If Your Heart Needs a Hand” is definitely a radio-friendly tune. “If we don’t hear this song on the Top 40, well, we can all chock it up to “it’s who you know…”