>>>>>Or, when you first heard about it?
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>>>>>Me - Branson's Lodge, Great Bear Lake, NWT Canada
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>>>>>Drinking coffee and shooting the breeze in the guide shack.
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>>>>Working at KMart in Grand Junction, CO. I remember a coworker crying and I thought 'how ridiculous' to be crying over Elvis. I was in high school and about to turn 17. I was listening to Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Boston, Pablo Cruise, Led Zeppelin, Pure Praire League, Poco, Foreigner...
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>>>>Things were going along great in the music world until Saturday Night Fever was released... yikes... That was absoluting amazing the effect it had in the music industry...
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>>>Wow... had to look up Pablo Cruise, Pure Prairie League. YouTube is great for this stuff, each page pulls up links to other bands often in the same era - Little River Band, Gary Wright...
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>>>ABBA was just hitting their stride then, too. Disco took over in a big way...
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>>If you have any tolerance for country rock at all you should check out Pure Prairie League. Along with Poco and a few others, they defined the sound. Add Buffalo Springfield and the founder, Gram Parsons, and you've got a pretty good 101 course in country rock.
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>And then 'The Band' took it to a whole new level.
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The Band were among my favorites, too, but they weren't country rock.