Rusty Young, the founding member of the band Poco, has died at the age of 75.
Young – born Norman Russell Young – got his start in 1967 playing lap steel on Buffalo Springfield’s “Kind Woman”.
The following year he would form Poco along with Buffalo Springfield’s Jim Messina and Richie Fury and future Eagles bassist Randy Meisner. Young would remain with Poco through all of its incarnations before retiring the band in 2013.
Young died of a heart attack at his home in Davisville, MO. He said last year he was “fortunate to have had a magical career”.
