Bronco (1970) Civil Of You Stranger

From their debut 1970 album, Bronco along with Home were the only two UK country rock bands of note from the early 70s, made from members from Robert Plant's Band of Joy and Mott the Hoople's previous incarnation, 60s blues group The Shakedown Sound. This is a great mix of clean cutting glistening harmonies with a strong RnB core mixing sparse rugged southern sounding rock with matter of fact Beatles pop melody. The lead singer, Jess Roden was earlier part of a soul group and that can be heard clearly in his delivery on some other tracks such as Well Anyhow. The band mix that deep soul with light and heavy folk blues and rock steady rhythms.