Blue and Gray (album)

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Blue and Gray
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Studio album by
Poco
ReleasedJuly 1981
Genre Country rock
Length38:25
Label MCA
Producer Mike Flicker
Poco chronology
Under the Gun
(1980)		Blue and Gray
(1981)		 Cowboys & Englishmen
(1982)

Blue and Gray is the thirteenth studio album by the American country rock band Poco, released in 1981. The album is a theme-based record, similar to Desperado by The Eagles, only the theme on this record is the American Civil War. The band scored minor chart success with "Widowmaker". The colors in the title refer to United States Army and Confederate States Army uniforms of the period, respectively.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder wrote, "this isn't a bad album, and at least benefits from more energy and ambition than its immediate predecessor, Under the Gun . There's some fine playing throughout and generally good singing, and some of the writing is inspired, although there are some lapses into lightweight, unmemorable fare also. A little more consistency might have lofted this album to the level of the band's best recent work, but it's still worth hearing as one of the more ambitious records ever to come from this long-lived country-rock band—and it certainly didn't deserve the obscurity that enveloped it." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Glorybound" (Rusty Young) – 3:35
  2. "Blue and Gray" (Young) – 4:40
  3. "Streets of Paradise" (Paul Cotton) – 3:55
  4. "The Writing on the Wall" (Young) – 3:10
  5. "Down on the River Again" (Cotton) – 3:45
  6. "Please Wait for Me" (Cotton) – 4:30
  7. "Widowmaker" (Young) – 4:25
  8. "Here Comes That Girl Again" (Young) – 3:15
  9. "Sometimes (We Are All We Got)" (Cotton) – 3:35
  10. "The Land of Glory" (Young) – 3:35

Personnel

Poco

Additional musicians

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 Eder, Bruce. "Blue and Gray > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved Dec 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
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