Richie Furay

… traffic jam between Stills and Richie Furay (veterans of the Greenwich Village folk scene) and Neil Young and Bruce Palmer (Canadians drawn to the hip epicenter of the burgeoning folk rock movement). The group took its name from a name emblazoned on the side of a steamroller the members had…

…or Poco, whose driving force, Richie Furay, was another former member of Buffalo Springfield. Instead they preferred to have their music felt over time in ways less direct and less oriented to mass culture.

The original members were Richie Furay (b. May 9, 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.), George Grantham (b. November 20, 1947, Cordell, Oklahoma), Randy Meisner (b. March 8, 1946, Scottsbluff, Nebraska), Jim Messina (b. December 5, 1947, Maywood, California), and Rusty Young (b. February 23, 1946, Long Beach, California). Later…