>>>>>>>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.
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>What label would you put on them? "Ophelia", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Jemima Surrender", "Whispering Pines". What were those if not country rock at least as much as Buffalo Springfield or Poco?

More country-flavored than country rock. No pedal steel.