Poco- Head Over Heels

Head Over Heels

This is when pedal steel guitarist RUSTY YOUNG makes his debut lead vocal (unless he actually sang on their previous albums) on the mandolin (played by RUSTY)/acoustic ballad US that also features the pipe organ, piano, and harmony vocal by bass guitarist TIM SCHMIT who wrote and sang the quiet acoustical ballad KEEP ON TRYIN'. Why RUSTY did not sing more songs that he wrote on this album and on the earlier POCO albums is a mystery to me because his song would have sound so much better; then again he might have too. Plus, I feel the more singers in a band, the better. The next song LOVIN' ARMS features excellent harmony vocals, drums, violin, banjo, acoustic, dobro, and pedal steel guitar playing. LET ME TURN BACK TO YOU that is written and sung by PAUL COTTON is a great song with his lead guitar playing and RUSTY'S mandolin and pedal steel guitar playing. MAKIN' LOVE is an excellent rock song with the harmony vocals, TIM'S bass guitar playing, GEORGE GRANTHAM'S drumming, PAUL'S guitar playing, RUSTY'S steel guitar playing, and THE BAND'S GARTH HUDSON playing the high-pitch piano, but SITTIN' ON A FENCE that features excellent harmony vocals, RUSTY'S steel guitar riffs, PAUL COTTON'S lead guitar riffs, GEORGE'S drumming, TIM'S bass guitar playing is better. Plus, the whatever type of percusion by VICTOR FELDMAN at the beginning of the song that comes after the excellent sounding bass guitar intro made me think is was either a CARIBBEAN or JAMAICAN song. PAUL'S DOWN BY THE RIVER is a good slow song with the orchestra, (a mellotron would have been better), harmony vocals, lead and pedal steel guitar riffs, and his guitar rockin' GEORGIA BIND MY TIES with the drum playing, bass guitar, harmony vocals, leslie steel and clean lead guitar riffs is excellent. Plus, DOWN BY THE RIVER reminds me of FAITH HILL'S PEARL HARBOR THEME "THERE YOU'LL BE." TIM'S FLYIN' SOLO is good, but I do not understand why RUSTY does not play pedal steel guitar or anything on this song. The STEELY DAN written DALLAS that is sung by PAUL is excellent with the harmony vocals, the orchestra, the pedal steel guitar riffs, the drums, and the bass guitar. TIM'S I'LL BE BACK AGAIN is great with the harmony vocals, drums, guitar and bass guitar riffs, although RUSTY should have played more of the pedal steel guitar on this song too. Overall, this is definitely a must for all POCO FANS, especially all country lovin' music fans. More importantly, POCO had a whole lot more country sound to offer than THE EAGLES.