Poco�s Paul Cotton
PAUL COTTON formerly of Illinois Speed Press, is one of the instrumental reasons for the success of Poco. PAUL COTTON joined Poco when it needed lightening to strike and it did! Poco was lingering on for a few years before PAUL COTTON arrived as a replacement for Jim Messina. It didn’t happen overnight but it did happen.
Legend (1978), the Cotton-Young album with cover art by graphic artist (and later comedy actor) Phil Hartman, subsequently became the group's most commercially successful album, containing two Top Twenty hits, "Crazy Love" (which also had a seven-week run at Number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart in early 1979, the biggest hit on the AC chart that year) and PAUL COTTON'S "Heart of the Night." The album was certified gold, Poco's first album to achieve this distinction in original distribution.
While "Crazy Love" was riding up the charts, ABC Records was sold to MCA Records. The Legend album was reissued on the MCA label and with the momentum built up from Legend's success, Poco played their new hit "Heart of the Night" on the live album No Nukes in support of nuclear-free energy, which featured several other big artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne.
"Crazy Love" and "Heart of The Night" combined PAUL COTTON together with Rusty Young and took Poco to heights Poco hadn’t seen before - success on the charts. Together with Rusty, PAUL COTTON put out the album that put Poco on the map and has kept it there for 35 years.
PAUL COTTON is a humble guy who just wants to make music. In a new world of texts, tweets and Facebook, the fans get to talk to PAUL COTTON directly and tell him “we want to see you, we want you to come play for us” and he hears the call. Poco’s PAUL COTTON is coming to a city near you.
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