#PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE AMIE MOVIE#

(He was later pardoned by President Ford.) This forced him to leave the group, and he was replaced by Larry Goshorn. During this period, Fuller encountered legal difficulties over his claim of conscientious objector status to avoid the draft, eventually serving two years in a hospital instead. But they added a second friend of Hinds', bassist Michael Reilly, and continued to play around the Midwest. Though later considered a landmark in country-rock, Bustin' Out initially suffered disappointing sales upon release in September 1972, and RCA dropped the group. Among the other session musicians on the album was David Bowie associate Mick Ronson, who played guitar and arranged the strings. Lanham, Caughlan, and Call left, and remaining members Fuller and Powell brought back Hinds, who in turn recruited a friend, keyboard player Michael Connor, to play on the second album, Bustin' Out, and subsequently become a full-fledged bandmember. Pure Prairie League did not sell well enough to reach the charts, and the group fragmented. Luke would turn up on all the band's subsequent album covers, giving them a distinctive visual conception. Adding steel guitar player John David Call, the group went into the studio and recorded its self-titled debut album, which was released in March 1972 with a cover depicting a Western character named Luke, an illustration drawn by famed American painter/illustrator Norman Rockwell that had first appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1927. By that time, McGrail had left and been replaced by Jim Caughlan, though Billy Hinds had also drummed with the band for a time. Pure Prairie League built up a following in Ohio, playing around Cincinnati for a year before earning a record contract with RCA Victor.

#PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE AMIE MOVIE#

Pure Prairie League was formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Craig Fuller, bass player Jim Lanham, and drummer Tom McGrail, who named the band after a women's temperance group in the 1939 Errol Flynn movie Dodge City. Yeah, does the character get back with her? Do they end up happily ever after or is it a hard lesson learned for him for the rest of his life?ĬF: I suppose the protagonist of the song is just laying it out and then it’s up to her.Despite significant personnel changes, Pure Prairie League maintained itself as a successful country-rock band during the 1970s and early '80s, releasing ten albums and enjoying hits including 'Amie' and 'Let Me Love You Tonight' with different configurations of the group. Yeah, but did you get back with her? Have you ever thought about that? In your mind’s eye, did you get back with Amie?ĬF: Amie is just a song so I get along with Amie really well. You’ve got to hear that a lot.ĬF: I’ve had mothers come up and say, “I named my daughter Amie - and she named her daughter Amie.' lobbying for songwriters two or three weeks ago and ran into another Amie that allegedly was named after that song. So the lead singer of Evanescence, Amy Lee, apparently was named after that song, even though she spells it with a Y. Through the decades you’ve played it around the world. So tell me about the resilience of that song. So we were just up there having a good time. Stompin’ Tom Connors, who was a guy from Canada, country kind of guy, he did a record in two nights. We had the whole (studio) blocked out in the days and Gordon Lightfoot would come in and record in the evening. It wasn’t even mixed yet and at that time Gordon Lightfoot came in. It took us all summer to record that record. We were in Toronto all summer right across from Maple Leaf Gardens. We were up there luxuriating (with) a large budget for back then. You fell into one, Craig, I’m telling you.ĬF: I think the track on that song had a lot to do with it. You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.ĬF: That’s just as fair as my take on it, because all I was doing was stringing words and music together. I’ll give you my take on it: The guy may have waited too long.

Just an exercise in song craftsmanship.īoy, people really dissect that song - about what it’s about.

It kept bubbling there along and they decided to give it another shot promotion-wise.ĬF: Just a song I wrote. CF: Well, when we recorded it in that mecca of country music Toronto, Canada, it was longer, and I think they edited it for radio and got it shorter.

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