Cantamos
by Poco
Poco bestography
Cantamos is ranked as the best album by Poco.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Cantamos track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Cantamos rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 3/100 | 20 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 40/100 | 61 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 74 Music Albums of 1974 | 50/74 | 2 |
| 2025 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2024 | henrygreen0203 | Top 27 Music Albums of 1974 | 1/27 | 5 |
| 2022 | salvador | Top 36 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/36 | 3 |
| 2019 | Johnnyo | Albums I Must Have? | 6/44 | - |
| 2015 | LSquared | Top 25 Greatest Music Albums | 7/25 | - |
| 2011 | saintjames | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 11/50 | - |
| 1974 | OOR | Jaarlijst Oor 1974 | 56/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 93 | |||
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Cantamos ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/20/2025 15:33 | cicadelic | 12,039 | 73/100 | |
| 06/29/2024 16:13 | BorderFreeAndrew | 14,858 | 74/100 | |
| 09/28/2023 20:35 | TonySayers61 | 23,763 | 64/100 | |
| 09/19/2023 14:07 | henrygreen0203 | 863 | 74/100 | |
| 03/16/2023 00:56 | dhbarrett | 8,348 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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“You know the road doesn’t end when it reaches a bend” - "High and Dry" by Rusty Young.
What do you do when your founding songwriter (Richie Furay) leaves the band? You carry on with the members you have and ask the pedal steel player if he writes any good shit.
This a huge improvement over Seven and rivals Crazy Eyes for its adventurism and musicianship. Rusty Young shines his bright star on this one and he hits it out of the park at the top of the set with Sagebrush Serenade, one of his typical bluegrass instrumentals, wrapped is a hazy love song about "counting stars and lovers."
Cantamos is very West coast flavored, as inspired by the album art and the 12-string acoustic guitar, yet very southern-rock and country, particularly with Paul Cotton's tasty bluesy guitar riffs and Rusty's pedal steel guitar in the background.
It's interesting because this one brings back the acoustic guitar heart on the debut (only Rusty Young and George Grantham remain from that project) and this set is energetic and playful like the debut, but the musicianship is damn tight and the songwriting is mature. If the group wasn't listening to Neil Young records around the time of this recording I would be surprised.
Cotton contributes four excellent songs, Schmit two, including the excellent Whatever Happens to Your Smile, and Rusty Young steps out from behind his pedal steel and contributes three amazing original songs. That in itself makes this a transitional album, as well as the return to a more acoustic folk sound, and not to mention this was the last Epic album. The group would sign to ABC/MCA and immediately start charting hits.
THIS is what I think about when I want to listen to Poco: A perfect blend of acoustic folk ballads and hard rockers.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
PAUL COTTON: Western Waterloo
RUSTY YOUNG: High and Dry
TIM SCHMIT: Whatever Happened to Your Smile
Great early 70's Poco with Timothy B. Schmidt, Richie Furay, Rusty Young, Paul Cotten and George Grantham. Had standouts Sagebrush Serenade & Bitter Blue
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