The World Still Hasn’t Caught Up With Poco
Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1974
WHEN GEORGE GRAHAM, THE quiet member of Poco, opined that a hit single would really get Poco away as far back as the Summer of 1970, he unwittingly came halfway to predicting why the band would never break into the big league.
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