Poco is still around. Rising from the ashes of Buffalo Springfield over 35 years ago, Poco was one of those bands that merged that folk/country/rock sound into something that folks in California couldn't get enough of. In fact, in the band's early years, bassist Timothy B. Schmidt left Poco to join the ultimate band of this "peaceful easy feeling" genre, the Eagles. Poco had a hit single with "Crazy Love" ("It happens all the time/This crazy love of mine") and some other minor successes. And, like cohorts Pure Prarie League and the indestructible Eagles, they keep on plugging away long after you thought they were dead and buried.

For Poco this is not necessarily a bad thing. Time has aged them well. Bareback at Big Sky is their first acoustic live CD and it does them justice. The quieter sound enhances their lovely harmonies and smooth guitar work. Their older songs, such as "Midnight Rain", and "Under the Gun" mesh well with their newer material. Their raggedy edges that encompassed their earlier works have given way to a sort of smooth easiness that makes this the kind of music to listen to while sitting on a yacht sipping rum drinks, or at least imagining that you are. This is music for big open spaces.

There's nothing remotely dangerous or edgy on this disc, and the boys of Poco do not want there to be. It goes down easy. A joke about the rabbit going into a bar at the end of the disc pretty much sums up the entire CD. It's safe and cute; the type of joke you'd read in Reader's Digest. There are worse ways to kill time, but there are better ways as well.

Poco plays Swallow at the Hollow, 1072 Green St, Roswell, on Saturday, April 28. 10 pm. $48.50.