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Alabama Music Office.com goes to the 30A Songwriters Festival 2014 in South Walton County, Florida. This was their 5th year and is one of the very best Songwriters Festivals that I have covered. Jonathan Edwards and Rusty Young was at Bud & Alley's in Seaside to entertain.

Warm as summer sunshine, real as the truth, intimate as a long overdue visit between old friends ... such is a Jonathan Edwards concert. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, the man simply delivers, night after night -- songs of passion, songs of insight, songs of humor, all rendered in that pure and powerful tenor which, like fine wine, has only grown sweeter with age.

This is one veteran performer who is neither grizzled nor nostalgic. These days Jonathan Edwards, a vital and relevant artist in today's folk and Americana scenes, is much more likely to be found looking forward rather than back. Still, the journey that has brought him to towns and theaters all over the globe -- perhaps one near you tonight -- is well worth revisiting.
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A founding member of pioneering country rock band Poco, Rusty Young grew up at the foot of the Rockies in Denver, Colorado. His great grandfather was a rancher, his grandfather and grandmother were professional musicians, and his mother and father were long time country music fans who encouraged him to learn to play music.
Music lessons began at age six and by age twelve he was playing little clubs while Mom and Dad passed the hat. When the sixties hit and the British invasion rolled in, he began playing in Colorado rock bands. Then in 1967 Rusty was asked to fly to Los Angeles and play steel guitar on the Buffalo Springfield's 'Last Time Around' album. There he met Springfield members Richie Furay and Jim Messina and Poco was formed out of the friendship and musical influences they shared.

Through the seventies when band mates Randy Meisner, Jim Messina, Richie Furay, George Grantham and Timothy B. Schmit moved on to other projects, Rusty kept the legend alive.
In 1978 he wrote and sang the band's first hit 'Crazy Love' and along with Paul Cotton scored Poco's first Gold and Platinum album. On 'Legacy', Poco's 1989 album reuniting original members Richie, Jimmy, Randy and George, Rusty sang their second top twenty hit 'Call It Love'.
In 1982 he received a Grammy nomination for his instrumental recording of his song 'Feudin' and was inducted into Guitar Player magazine's 'Gallery of Greats'. Always considered a major influence on the world of steel guitar, in 2013 Rusty was inducted into the 'Steel Guitar Hall of Fame'.
These days Rusty is writing new songs, touring new places, and working on an autobiography about the things he's seen in forty-five years in a rock n' roll band.
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