''Cantamos'' is the seventh studio album by the

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band Poco. It was released in 1974 on

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. This album saw the band moving back towards their traditional country rock sound after experimenting with a harder style on the previous album.

Release history

In addition to the conventional 2 channel

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version the album was also released in a 4 channel quadraphonic edition on LP on 8-track tape in 1974. The quad LP release was encoded with the SQ matrix system. The album was reissued in the UK on the Super Audio CD format in 2018 by Dutton Vocalion. This edition is a 2 albums on 1 disc compilation which also contains the 1974 Poco album ''Seven''. The Dutton Vocalion release contains the complete stereo and quad mixes of both albums.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic James Chrispell wrote of the album "Much of the magic of their earlier albums has been recaptured."

Track listing

#"Sagebrush Serenade" (Rusty Young) – 4:58 #"Susannah" (Paul Cotton) – 4:13 #"High and Dry" (Young) – 4:49 #"Western Waterloo'" (Cotton) – 4:00 #"One Horse Blue" (Cotton) – 3:34 #"Bitter Blue" (Timothy B. Schmit) – 3:20 #"Another Time Around" (Cotton) – 5:01 #"Whatever Happened to Your Smile" (Schmit) – 3:14 #"All The Ways" (Young) – 3:28

Personnel

* Paul Cotton – guitars, vocals * Rusty Young –

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, guitars, vocals *

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– bass, vocals *

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– drums, vocals

Production

* Poco – producers * Mark Henry Harman – engineer * Michael Verdick – assistant engineer * Wally Traugott – mastering * Phil Hartman – cover design, illustration * Gribbitt! – creative direction * Hartmann and Goodman – management Studios * Recorded and Mixed at

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(Los Angeles, California). * Mastered at

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(Hollywood, California).

References

{{Authority control Poco albums 1974 albums Epic Records albums