Poco’s Rusty Young, RIP: A Bandmate Offers an Appreciation of a Hero Turned Friend… and Last Words About Tuning
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.