Not sure where to start... or what and how to say how I feel. But it's raining in my heart today as I read the news of Rusty's passing on the 14th! Been a fan of Rusty's since '68 and before, when he played on Kind Woman with Springfield. A loss for sure, saw Poco first time in 1974, and a few times down in Steelville @ Wildwood Springs. Rusty sat at our table upstairs one night as Furay and his band played on stage. What a classy man, the world has become lesser with the loss. People like Rusty are a rarity.
RIP My Friend
Condolences to Mary Sarah & Will

Currently listening to Don Magee on Wfuv 90.7 New York. Rusty’s interview promoting Waiting for the Sun . So upbeat, great to listen to him speak about his music and Poco. So sad to never be able to see him again with the band. Feel like we lost a really great friend. We will miss him.

Rusty......I can’t begin to process it

Loved Poco since ‘72.
So sad about Rusty...
Thanks for the beautiful music.

A band to remember! A good feeling to know!
I received a call from a long lost friend I hadn’t seen in 45 years this week! He was coming for a short visit.
Upon his arrival sitting outside on a lovely Vermont spring afternoon near a blooming magnolias tree,
After a very short catching up he asked me ; I hate to ask you but did you hear about Rusty’s? Passing ? I listen to Poco a lot...still after 50 years .I Remember nights in the park in Boston, a birthday concert at my college
in Ohio: First hearing Rusty’s electric dobro in NYC Central Park playing a right along and the fabulous encore let’s dance . The band has been a part of my life since I was 15 years old, and I feel this loss like many here like the loss of an old friendPico was something special, and Rusty Young was special too, thanks for music!

I’m just so sad..... R.I.P. Rusty.....

My very first live concert was POCO . 1970 at the University of Hartford.
I was fortunate enough to see many different shapes of the band over the years and watch Rusty push his talents to the extreme to make up for lost members. His voice and pedal steel are unforgettable.
RIP Rusty.

So sad to hear of Rusty's death - his pedal steel playing was simply brilliant in the Richie days and his songs were pretty damn good too. Poco literally changed my life - I heard Deliverin' just after it came out and was stunned by how great and how exciting this music was. I've listened to a lot of country rock and Americana since then always hoping to hear something as thrilling as that first time I heard Rusty's steel on Grand Junction - I'm still waiting. There are a lot of great steel players out there but for me he was and always will be the best - listen to his parts on Bad Weather and try not to cry. I feel today as though someone close to me is gone - that's how important Poco's music has been to me down so many years. I was 14 when I first heard Rusty's playing and I'm 64 now - the music he made with Poco is the soundtrack to my life. I'm devastated. Rest in Peace.

God bless you and keep you close in Heaven, Rusty! And may He give comfort to Mary and your family. I only got to see Poco once in the 70s and was absolutely blown away and have been a big fan ever since. I never got to meet Rusty, although I feel like I’ve known him all my life through his music. I will always cherish the handwritten lyrics I ordered from Rusty of one of my favorite songs “All the Ways.” Yes, Mary, Rusty did have beautiful handwriting! Long live the Legacy and the Legend!

I first heard of Poco in the summer of 1975. My first LP ever purchased was Head Over Heals. I was hooked. So much so that I went right back out and bought their Greatest Hits LP, the one with the silk jacket and the horseshoe logo. My next stop was the arts & crafts shop, where I picked up some embroidery thread. Before long, I had recreated that logo on the back of a jeans shirt I adored throughout five years of architecture school at Virginia Tech. So many of their albums accompanied me on that journey. I felt it all along that among all of these talented musicians, there was an underlying form of utter excellence. It took many years of being a devoted Poconut to discover that it was really Rusty who gave the band the continuity of the perfect mix of country and rock elements that made every song so enjoyable and memorable. Anytime you can put a record on repeat and listen over and over to the same song, at any volume, and consistently hear nuances that you never noticed before... that is musical brilliance at its best. Once a fan, always a fan... to say the least, I am grateful for the times I witnessed their prowess live, for that is where they always excelled, and as all of this great music continues to echo through the canyons of my soul, I am thankful for Rusty... in many ways an unsung hero of some of the best sounds a human can create... in his passing, I observe the outpouring of emotions that he alone justifies. He lives in the heart of all this marvelous music and will continue to find followers far into tomorrow.