Pure Prairie League was ahead of its time

When Pure Prairie League released its first album of country rock in 1972, the country charts were a bastion of more conservative sounds.

Artists like Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and Buck Owens — the more staid side of the genre — were generating the majority of airplay on country radio.



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