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Биография Pure Prairie League

Although the band has its roots in Waverly, Ohio, it was actually formed in Columbus, and had its first success in Cincinnati. Fuller (who would also play with J.D. Blackfoot and Little Feat), McGrail, Caughlan and Call had played together on and off since high school. An early pre-Pure Prairie League recording was a George Ed Powell penned composition, "Break Me Down to Pieces" with Powell (acoustic guitar and vocal), Fuller (lead guitar and vocal), McGrail (drums), Kenny May (bass) and David Workman (pedal steel guitar). In 1970, the first official PPL lineup was Fuller, McGrail, Powell, Phil Stokes on bass, and Robin Suskind on guitar and mandola, with steel guitar player John David Call joining the band later that year. His steel guitar improved the country songs and sparked guitar duels with Fuller that contributed to the country rock signature sound of the band.

Jim Caughlan, who had played drums and guitar with Fuller, Call and McGrail in earlier bands, took over on drums when McGrail quit the band in 1971, just before their first album was recorded. Jim Lanham replaced Stokes who left at the same time. Pure Prairie League was looking for national artist management and they made contact with well-known rock and roll promoter Roger Abramson. Abramson went to New Dilly, a bar in Cincinnati, and immediately signed the band to management. Abramson was able to obtain a recording contract with RCA. Abramson then placed Pure Prairie League as an opening act with many of the concerts that he was producing. Their eponymous first album featured a Norman Rockwell drawing of an old cowboy named Luke, who had originally appeared in Saturday Evening Post magazine. Luke would feature on the cover of every PPL recording thereafter.

After the first album's release in March 1972 and a nationwide tour, the band decided to relocate to a horse farm in Toronto for the summer of 1972, since Toronto was where the first album had been recorded and Fuller felt safer there since he was facing charges of draft evasion. Call, Caughlan and Lanham were not agreeable to this move and decided to leave. The second album, Bustin Out, was produced, as their debut had been, by Bob Ringe and featured a trio of Fuller, Powell and William Frank (Billy) Hinds (drums, percussion). Hinds' friend Michael Connor contributed piano to the sessions and would become a regular in the Pure Prairie League line-up for years to come. Mick Ronson, of David Bowie and Mott the Hoople fame, contributed string arrangements on several tracks, most notably "Boulder Skies" and "Call Me Tell Me", and Michael Reilly, who would become the longtime bass player and front man for the band, joined them in early September 1972 after the record's completion. Bustin Out was released in October 1972.

Shortly afterwards, the group returned to Ohio and Fuller had to face trial in Kentucky. Before conscientious objector (C.O.) status could be arranged, he was sentenced to six months in jail and forced to leave PPL in February 1973. At this point, RCA dropped the band and their future looked bleak.

By August 1973, the band members were in Cincinnati and managed to persuade Call to return. Fuller, though out of prison by now, was working the late shift in a community hospital to satisfy his C.O. requirements and was not inclined to rejoin at this juncture (he was eventually given a full pardon by President Gerald Ford). Reilly took over as the band's leader and brought in his friend Larry Goshorn (vocals, guitars) to replace Fuller in November 1973. Goshorn had played in a popular Ohio band called Sacred Mushroom.

The band hit the road and began playing gigs constantly, mostly in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast. As a result of their heavy schedule, particularly at colleges, their songs became well known, with "Amie" (Craig Fuller’s ode to an on-again/off-again relationship), from the second album, becoming a particular favorite.
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