We have waited long enough for some Summer sunshine, so finally I can spin this track and greet the day with a warm outlook and recount this tale from yester year.

From the John Peel column in 'Sounds' - September 1976

He writes of a new ritual at his home .... "Whosoever rises first - and this is usually me - goes straight to the stereo and cranking the decrepit machinery up to full volume, fills the house with the stirring strains of Poco's 'Rose of Cimarron'. 

Naturally, being decent, god-fearing folk, we eschew the mildly beastly edited single version and go instead to the full-blooded 6 minute and 40 second version. As soon as the ecstatic guitar break has faded away, the rest of the house rise from their beds, their eyes shining with a strange light, the spirits uplifted. 

I suspect that repeated exposure to 'Rose of Cimarron' could raise you to a similar state of bliss." 

So here it is [remember full volume] > Poco - and one of my favourite tracks ever -