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Rusty Young was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the country rock band Poco, known for hits including “Crazy Love.”Young joined former members of Buffalo Springfield in 1968 to form Poco. He played pedal steel guitar on the new group’s gentle country rock, including the 1979 hit “Crazy Love,” which Young also wrote and sang lead vocals on.

Tom Hampton Poco’s co-founder and longtime frontman, Rusty Young, died Wednesday night. (Read Variety‘s obituary here.) He had no more fervent acolyte than Tom Hampton, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who has been a session player and touring musician with the Marshall Tucker Band and other groups, and who had officially joined Poco last year after sitting in with the group for a number of dates.

Variety. “My heart is saddened; he was a dear and longtime friend who helped me pioneer and create a new Southern California musical sound called ‘country rock.’”Young was the writer for Poco’s biggest hit, 1978’s haunting “Crazy Love,” which was named the No.

Rusty Young, the cofounder of Poco and only member to last though its entire five-decade history, died Wednesday at 75 of a heart attack at his Davisville, Missouri home, a representative confirmed.

Chris Willman Music WriterRusty Young, who co-founded the country-rock group Poco in 1968 and was the only mainstay through the band’s five-decade-plus history, died Wednesday at age 75.A representative said Young died of a heart attack at his home in Davisville, Missouri.“I just received word that my friend Rusty Young has passed away and crossed that line into eternity,” co-founder Richie Furay said in a statement to Variety.