Yeah ... music has a way of taking you back ... I had just spent the greater part of the spring of '77 skiing and enjoying life ... this song was continually floating through my head and my life back then .... great times ....
My dad showed me this song when I was 6 and its been about 8 or 9 years since i heard it when I was 5. I found the CD and started listening to it I cried. My dad says I won't truly hear its beauty till I travel across the country on a Harley and see the desert and nature at its best just like my dad and my uncle did. My uncle died not long after Christmas when I was young on his motorcycle and I'm gonna fix it up and travel just like the both of them. I don't know why I'm posting this but I did.
Oh fuck...I first heard this song cruising across the southwest in 1974 in my convertible...I was on the last leg of my four month road trip where I left behind one life to begin another. Poco will always be part of that transformation. In 1974 they released Catamos, with so many great songs I can't think of them all...try listening to Sagebrush Serenade...Rusty Young smokes of pedal steel.
Always loved this song.....I'll forget about for awhile..Then I'll here it somewhere and can't the tune out of my head for months.To me...thats a great song
This is classic, great Poco at it's finest! It's awesome!!! Thanks for posting! Sincerely, BobbyK While the Poco I saw in 2004 was a shell of this group, it was fun, just the same!!! BobbyK
back in the day, 1978,1979 Radio Caroline would sign off with this. always remember listening to it on the roundabout some where between oxford and upper heyford about 2 am. simpler times
I'm surprised, and maybe enlightened, to hear all of the explanations for this lovely tune here. I always thought it was about a whore, Rose of Cimarron. A whore with a conscience, with a heart ("for all the best she'd be around, when the chips were down"---"waitin at her window", etc). Am I just a sicko? Thats a distinct possibility. Where's Miss Kitty? They tell me Matt Dillon has passed.
@bigmarty56 Hey bigmarty you are just an old romantic...LOL and so am I, no you are no sicko..just a guy with a soul for a change... I have always loved this song
For any Brits - John Peel played this every night for weeks in 1975 or 76 (can't quite remember now), saying the guitar work at around 4:20 was the best he had ever heard. Then one day it was all punk - it was like he had been reborn.
Magnificent , uplifting almost spiritual song which takes me back to the days when I was a young man without a care in the world . Oh to be back in that place for just one more day .
It's true Rose of the Cimarron was a real person. I think it was also the name of a western movie, but I think that was fiction. The song puts me in mind of a soundtrack for a movie never made, a story of a woman who lived to see the west "won" ("dusty days are gone.") That she did her "best to be around when the chips were down" I think refers to Rose having run through gunfire to deliver a rifle to her beau, Bitter Creek Newcomb.
Absoloutely uplifting melodically. who cares about the lyrics, i just think it's gorgeous and the voices and harmony indescribable. that is if you like it. if you don't it probably doesn't work at all. I could listen all day!
It's a song about cinnamon covered roses which were popular with the natives of east Yoncalla Africa. After a head hunting party returned and all the heads were shrunken the natives would smoke the rose petals and listen to pedal steel guitar and jews harp music on the car stereo. The group Poco popularized the song in the 70's. The line "Dusty days are gone" refers to the installation of an air filtration system in the African village.
@jks728 actually, the song is about Rose Dunn, a 15 year old girl who was known for her beauty and her romantic involvement with George "Bittercreek" Newcomb, an outlaw who ran with "The Wild Bunch". It is about her waiting and wondering if her man will return, or if he'll be gunned down in the latest gunfight. Ironically, George was killed by Rose's brothers, but they insisted she knew nothing about it.
jolin...que recuerdos esta cancion....creci escuchando este vinilo de entre tantos que tenia mi padre de cuando era jovenzuelo.....se me ponen los sentimientos a flor de piel al escucharlo....enorme!nunca volveran grupos de musica como los de los 70! jamas!
This is the loveliest song--barely known to anyone who isn't a true fan of Poco. I would put this way past Freebird or Jungleland. It's like a mini-symphony.
God you just have to love them ! They are the very best! I have loved their music for almost fourty years! I have played guitar for over 35 years and they were always a great big influence on me.No one can touch them.! They should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.If not for Poco there would be no high standard of perfection.These guys are simply the BEST! The Eagles got all the glory but Poco had the real talent.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! A wonderful intro to country rock. I have loved this song for years, and i still dont know Poco very well. Things have to change!!
Nice to see people remember this song. When surveys ask what are the hundred greatest songs ever written? This one never gets a mention! It should be in the top ten!
As weird as this may sound ,this song reminds me only of my beloved black lab ,,Chance, and I was trying to figure out why? and then it came to me that they are both Pure ..Miss you boy
I rember this song so wellsome 35 years ago. I would find myself with this song rolling along in my head all day at times. Mesmerizing in its beat and harmonys! Vocals could not be any better if you tried. A masterpiece in my opinion.
You just don't hear music like this today. The singers don't play instruments. Its all don'e electronically. Even their voices are doctored. Not a bit of talent. All they have to do is rhyme and they have a hit.
Oh, what memories of teen and young adult years... From playing it on college progressive radio...To singin' it on the farm in the Ozarks.. When in the Missouri hills this is the music that sent me to a love for life.. Need that these days... And going to Winter Park last summer.. Same thing in the Rockies (home of Poco)...
Belter of a tune this one. Quite agree with the comment that all the kids do is listen to X factor and think you have to 'warble' to be a singer. This is a fine example of how to chant!!!
A Classic Close.
pbs011 3 weeks ago
just love this song,and guitar is superb,one of the best from the 1970,s
TheDennis3064 3 weeks ago
One of the Best songs of the 70's...
twister1957 3 weeks ago
Thank You Poco, for so many memories of the 70's.... Luv It...
twister1957 3 weeks ago
Yeah ... music has a way of taking you back ... I had just spent the greater part of the spring of '77 skiing and enjoying life ... this song was continually floating through my head and my life back then .... great times ....
kenkram1 1 month ago
this song has no particuliar message for me, 'cept that I love it :-)
wwwonderful 1 month ago
My dad showed me this song when I was 6 and its been about 8 or 9 years since i heard it when I was 5. I found the CD and started listening to it I cried. My dad says I won't truly hear its beauty till I travel across the country on a Harley and see the desert and nature at its best just like my dad and my uncle did. My uncle died not long after Christmas when I was young on his motorcycle and I'm gonna fix it up and travel just like the both of them. I don't know why I'm posting this but I did.
bebote261 2 months ago 7
Oh fuck...I first heard this song cruising across the southwest in 1974 in my convertible...I was on the last leg of my four month road trip where I left behind one life to begin another. Poco will always be part of that transformation. In 1974 they released Catamos, with so many great songs I can't think of them all...try listening to Sagebrush Serenade...Rusty Young smokes of pedal steel.
RogerHWerner 1 month ago
Always loved this song.....I'll forget about for awhile..Then I'll here it somewhere and can't the tune out of my head for months.To me...thats a great song
sling3shot 2 months ago
gregboy59 said it all. a beautiful peice of music
bjble 2 months ago
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This is classic, great Poco at it's finest! It's awesome!!! Thanks for posting! Sincerely, BobbyK While the Poco I saw in 2004 was a shell of this group, it was fun, just the same!!! BobbyK
bobby7771117 2 months ago
so underated, this was such a fantastic musical production, not just banded out
bluestreakbuck 2 months ago
q temonnnnnnnnnnnn esto me lo hizo escuchar mi tio q hoy en dia ya no esta.siempre q lo escucho r recuerda a el
menchagustina 2 months ago
Roll along.... roll on..... One of the few songs that truly transports me back when I had my first real heartbreak.
bucks1955mjm 3 months ago
back in the day, 1978,1979 Radio Caroline would sign off with this. always remember listening to it on the roundabout some where between oxford and upper heyford about 2 am. simpler times
cohodave 3 months ago
@cohodave That was my thought ..and then I scrolled down and seen your comment...old times not forgotten buddy....
timtipton5071256 3 months ago
@badman2252 I believe I hear an AMEN,Brother!
redsfanstu 3 months ago in playlist redsfanstu's favorites
I'm surprised, and maybe enlightened, to hear all of the explanations for this lovely tune here. I always thought it was about a whore, Rose of Cimarron. A whore with a conscience, with a heart ("for all the best she'd be around, when the chips were down"---"waitin at her window", etc). Am I just a sicko? Thats a distinct possibility. Where's Miss Kitty? They tell me Matt Dillon has passed.
bigmarty56 3 months ago
@bigmarty56 Hey bigmarty you are just an old romantic...LOL and so am I, no you are no sicko..just a guy with a soul for a change... I have always loved this song
MrSirDel 3 months ago
One of the best songs I've ever heard! I wish I could play this on guitar.
handthatsewstime 3 months ago
For any Brits - John Peel played this every night for weeks in 1975 or 76 (can't quite remember now), saying the guitar work at around 4:20 was the best he had ever heard. Then one day it was all punk - it was like he had been reborn.
TDAForbes 4 months ago
Almost 7 minutes long and one hella song!
Brooklyn50s 4 months ago
They were very good in concert!! Norfolk Scope Arena...opened up for Marshall Tucker Band!
samson3ful 4 months ago
With tears in my eyes I remember this song from way back when........life was good and life was simple....
KatzHartz 4 months ago 7
Magnificent , uplifting almost spiritual song which takes me back to the days when I was a young man without a care in the world . Oh to be back in that place for just one more day .
SPARKY53100 5 months ago
It's true Rose of the Cimarron was a real person. I think it was also the name of a western movie, but I think that was fiction. The song puts me in mind of a soundtrack for a movie never made, a story of a woman who lived to see the west "won" ("dusty days are gone.") That she did her "best to be around when the chips were down" I think refers to Rose having run through gunfire to deliver a rifle to her beau, Bitter Creek Newcomb.
slappyzeb 5 months ago
Beautiful song...especially at the end with the strings and the banjo playing at the same time!
blackwelderadam 5 months ago
If someone has ever noticed, the end of Rose of Cimarron is the same as to Dobie Gray´s Drift away!
Si alguien lo ha notado, el final del Rosa de Cimarrón es igual que el Drift away, de Dobie Gray!
mistersidartez 6 months ago
Absoloutely uplifting melodically. who cares about the lyrics, i just think it's gorgeous and the voices and harmony indescribable. that is if you like it. if you don't it probably doesn't work at all. I could listen all day!
deadre 6 months ago
It's a song about cinnamon covered roses which were popular with the natives of east Yoncalla Africa. After a head hunting party returned and all the heads were shrunken the natives would smoke the rose petals and listen to pedal steel guitar and jews harp music on the car stereo. The group Poco popularized the song in the 70's. The line "Dusty days are gone" refers to the installation of an air filtration system in the African village.
jks728 6 months ago 3
@jks728 I'll have two of whatever you're on my friend
CBXTREV 6 months ago
@jks728 What are you talking about ?
bairns1234 6 months ago
@jks728 actually, the song is about Rose Dunn, a 15 year old girl who was known for her beauty and her romantic involvement with George "Bittercreek" Newcomb, an outlaw who ran with "The Wild Bunch". It is about her waiting and wondering if her man will return, or if he'll be gunned down in the latest gunfight. Ironically, George was killed by Rose's brothers, but they insisted she knew nothing about it.
kittee59 5 months ago
Only 42000 views?
I'm amazed!
rufinoman 6 months ago 2
Lejos el mejor!!
sabritanav 6 months ago
The Best. 'nough said.
danharris3 7 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard.
tuprimodecuenca 7 months ago 2
it really can't get much better than this.
duffer29 7 months ago
jolin...que recuerdos esta cancion....creci escuchando este vinilo de entre tantos que tenia mi padre de cuando era jovenzuelo.....se me ponen los sentimientos a flor de piel al escucharlo....enorme!nunca volveran grupos de musica como los de los 70! jamas!
tuinituini 7 months ago
To all "kindred" here the soundtrack of my youth..."Haunting" Thanks be to all.
janeyre7 7 months ago
sorry my computer had some sort of weird technical thing didnt mean to post that twice
bebote261 8 months ago
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This song shall never wither
bebote261 8 months ago
This song shall never wither
bebote261 8 months ago
This song shall never wither
bebote261 8 months ago
Simply beautiful.
seanburi 8 months ago
POCO･･アメリカン･ﾛｯｸ史の役割は深い､ﾐﾃﾞｨｱﾑ･ｶﾝﾄﾘｰﾛｯｸ"シマロンの薔薇"～意外にしみる歌
blackandtanful 8 months ago
Recuerdan a los eagles, pero esta canción es una maravilla.Disfruten.
karlitos993 8 months ago
Arcade Fire draws from Poco. Just saying :-) And I love Arcade FIre!
carpediemlibra 9 months ago
One word: amazing!
NurseLenny 9 months ago
This is the loveliest song--barely known to anyone who isn't a true fan of Poco. I would put this way past Freebird or Jungleland. It's like a mini-symphony.
BlueLizzie59 9 months ago
que recuerdos me trae,Dios mio que temazo,gracias por subirlo.
rolando8124 10 months ago
Had this album stuck to my bedroom wall, I would sit in my bean bag and stare at Timothy, God I had a big crush on him.
TheBinjy 10 months ago
Qué bueno poder compartir buena música, rescatada de antaño. Buen grupo, buen tema. Lo tenía olvidado. Gracias por subirlo.
cristiangorini 11 months ago
Qué bueno poder compartir buena música, rescatada de antaño. Buen grupo, buen tema. Lo tenía olvidado. Gracias por subirlo.
cristiangorini 11 months ago
A masterpiece
paulfield1 11 months ago
My brother obliged me to listen to this kind of music and I was only 8. I couldn't catch the beauty at that time but I can now!
gujagiani 11 months ago
God you just have to love them ! They are the very best! I have loved their music for almost fourty years! I have played guitar for over 35 years and they were always a great big influence on me.No one can touch them.! They should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.If not for Poco there would be no high standard of perfection.These guys are simply the BEST! The Eagles got all the glory but Poco had the real talent.
GregDrayGregDray 11 months ago
I love most of Poco's material, but after Indian Summer, it was never as magical as it was from 69-77! Sincerely, Bobby7771117
bobby7771117 11 months ago
one of the best guitar solos EVER. Wouldn't change one single note
squank72 1 year ago
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! A wonderful intro to country rock. I have loved this song for years, and i still dont know Poco very well. Things have to change!!
psychelatte 1 year ago
@psychelatte Rusty and Paul still tour occassionaly....it's still POCO...go see them...saw them a few month's ago and a very enjoyable night!...
Crowsfan55 11 months ago
Abso-fuckin'-lutely brilliant!!!
gannite 1 year ago
@gannite u are Abso-fuckin'-lutely RIGHT!!!!!
dbfarm99 1 year ago
Great song from a great band!!
brjtny 1 year ago
Estupendo, magnifico, f..king brilliant!
alanespana 1 year ago
this is pure musical majesty !
lovescry 1 year ago
to wee alex rip .the taylor boys
CandyflossAngel 1 year ago
Nothing I can say......except listen to perfection!!
scottie0uy812 1 year ago 3
This is one of the best songs ever recorded.
SantaCruzBluz 1 year ago
IMO this is THE ULTIMATE POCO SONG, and that in itself is all inclusive, conclusive, and definitely EXCLUSIVE! VIVA POCO!!!!!
redsfanstu 1 year ago
Nice to see people remember this song. When surveys ask what are the hundred greatest songs ever written? This one never gets a mention! It should be in the top ten!
GaryDenverShaw 1 year ago 2
Forgot to add, f***ing superb This is music at its best.
carpediemlibra 1 year ago 2
Very evocative, this was the music that shaped my life living in the SW US.
So many musical influences evident, always loved the bluegrass banjo fading off the orchestra at the end.
Poco had their mainstream hit with "Crazy Love" (wonderful song, btw) but this will always be their signature song for me.
carpediemlibra 1 year ago
This is a beautiful discovery for me: oops did not know them !:-)))
pupismile 1 year ago
As weird as this may sound ,this song reminds me only of my beloved black lab ,,Chance, and I was trying to figure out why? and then it came to me that they are both Pure ..Miss you boy
brian58769 1 year ago
OH my GOD, I had forgotten how good these guys were!!
paullie56 1 year ago 2
I rember this song so wellsome 35 years ago. I would find myself with this song rolling along in my head all day at times. Mesmerizing in its beat and harmonys! Vocals could not be any better if you tried. A masterpiece in my opinion.
gregboy59 1 year ago 12
Great Track ... Thanks
rufus99999 1 year ago
You just don't hear music like this today. The singers don't play instruments. Its all don'e electronically. Even their voices are doctored. Not a bit of talent. All they have to do is rhyme and they have a hit.
azbabyblueyes 1 year ago
Asa life long Poco fan, I used their music to woo my wife when we were dating and we chose "Magnolia" for our wedding song. To this day it still is.
rebelcharlie1 1 year ago 4
@rebelcharlie1 Good for you (both!)
Factnotfictionpeople 1 month ago
There are a handful of songs that should be played every hour, every day. This is one of them.
SAOProductions1955 1 year ago
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There are a handful of songs that should be played every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year. This is one of them.
SAOProductions1955 1 year ago
Oh, what memories of teen and young adult years... From playing it on college progressive radio...To singin' it on the farm in the Ozarks.. When in the Missouri hills this is the music that sent me to a love for life.. Need that these days... And going to Winter Park last summer.. Same thing in the Rockies (home of Poco)...
skippertthomas 1 year ago
Is this the most beautiful song or what :) Simply classic :)
CadillacL 1 year ago 2
Awsome, very nice.
OnkelKiesi 1 year ago
Lo mejor, el final.
The best, the end.
EAIrock 2 years ago
An all-time classic, Simply brilliant.
antaluca 2 years ago
My God! What can you say!!! but what a great tune
wellers2001 2 years ago
simple really -beautiful song, beautifully sung, beautifully played. If I had any, the hairs on the back of my neck would be standing up!!
Always loved this
mickb55 2 years ago
full on proper !
just knockout !
thecaproni100 2 years ago
Belter of a tune this one. Quite agree with the comment that all the kids do is listen to X factor and think you have to 'warble' to be a singer. This is a fine example of how to chant!!!
jingles968 2 years ago
Oh man,this song takes me back.
Fucking class.
and all kids have now is that piss poor X factor shit to listen too.
I pity them cos when they are old enough to know good music when they hear it they will know they were sold a pile of crap.
ajb7876 2 years ago
How about Timothy B. Schmit's gorgeous falsetto at 4:45? Whew!
andyinoregon 2 years ago
Class track
Bakesnug 2 years ago
una de las mejores canciones ,,all time
poco forever
MARCOSBARCENA 2 years ago
Great music to drive through the desert with...just the best, that is all.
1mredneckmother 2 years ago
Now THIS is 'Rose Of Cimarron' as it should be! Thanks for posting. :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 2 years ago 19
tamazoooooo!!!!!! GRACIAS
papelsergin 2 years ago
poco genial, sin palabras
patxileku 2 years ago
very good . ilove it.
OnkelKiesi 2 years ago
Fuck'in Agree wiv you, me ol'mate.. I Love the instramentle part towards the end of the track.... Awsome .. Fuck'in Awsome
diddycoys 2 years ago
How brilliant were/are Poco and how fucking brilliant is this song!!!!!!
lpcovers 2 years ago 22
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diddycoys 2 years ago
@lpcovers Plenty Brilliant!
baldymer 1 year ago 2
@lpcovers LOVE THIS TUNE. NEVER GET BORED OF THIS ABSOLUTE CRACKING TUNE..
mcconkeyMOD 1 year ago