Tracklist front / back album covers
"Tears" (Craig Fuller) – 2:43
"Take It Before You Go" (Fuller) – 4:05
"You're Between Me" (Fuller) – 5:35
"Woman" (Adam Taylor) – 3:40
"Doc's Tune" (George Powell) – 1:22
"Country Song" (T. P. Waterhouse) – 7:37
"Harmony Song" (Fuller) – 5:20
"It's All on Me" (Powell) – 2:30
Pure Prairie League Band Members / Musicians
Craig Fuller – lead guitar, vocals
George Powell – finger-style guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Jim Lanham – bass guitar, background vocals
John David Call – steel guitar
Jim Caughlan – drums
Hugh McCracken – guitar
Barbara Merrick - vocals
Starr Smith – vocals
James "Westy" Westermyer – vocals
Producer: Bob Ringe
Engineer: Gus Mossler
Cover Art: Norman Rockwell
Pure Prairie League is the self-titled debut album by American country rock band Pure Prairie League, released in 1972.
Pure Prairie League is an American country rock band whose origins go back to 1965 and Waverly, Ohio, with singer and guitarist Craig Fuller, drummer Tom McGrail, guitarist and drummer Jim Caughlan and steel guitarist John David Call. Fuller started the band in 1970 and McGrail named it after a fictional 19th century temperance union featured in the 1939 Errol Flynn cowboy film Dodge City. In 1975 the band scored its biggest hit with the single "Amie", a track that originally appeared on their 1972 album Bustin' Out. Pure Prairie League scored five consecutive Top 40 LPs in the 1970s and added a sixth in the 1980s. They disbanded in 1988 but regrouped in 1998 and continue to perform as of 2021. The line-up has been fluid over the years, with no one member having served over the band's entire history. The band's most recent line-up consists of Call, long-time bassist Michael Reilly, guitarists Donnie Lee Clark and Randy Harper and drummer Scott Thompson. Among the other notable past musicians to have played with Pure Prairie League include guitarists Vince Gill, Gary Burr and Curtis Wright.
Pure Prairie League Band Members / Musicians
John David Call — pedal steel guitar, banjo, dobro (1970–1972, 1973–1977, 2010–present; guest 2006–2007)
Michael Reilly — vocals, bass, guitar (1972—1988, 1998–present; mostly inactive 2006–2008)
Donnie Lee Clark — vocals, guitars (2006–present)
Scott Thompson — vocals, drums, percussion (2012–present)
Randy Harper - vocals, guitar, keyboards (2018–present)
Craig Fuller - vocals, lead guitar, bass (1970–1973, 1985–1988, 1998–2002, 2004–2012; somewhat inactive while touring, 2011–2012)
George Ed Powell — vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar (1970—1978; occasional guest at Ohio shows since 1998)
Phil Stokes — bass (1970—1971)
Robin Suskind — guitar, mandola (1970–1972)
Tom McGrail — drums (1970—1971)
Jim Caughlan — drums, guitar (1971—1972)
Jim Lanham — bass (1971–1972)
Billy Hinds — drums, percussion (1972–1984)
Michael Connor — piano, keyboards, synthesizers (1972–1988, 1998–2004; died 2004)
Larry Goshorn — vocals, guitars (1973–1978; died 2021)
Tim Goshorn - pedal steel guitar (1977/1978–1978, 1982—1988; died 2017)
Vince Gill – vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, violin (1978–1982)
Steven Patrick Bolin — vocals, guitars, flute, saxophone (1979–1980)
Mike Hamilton — vocals, guitars (1982)
Al Garth — vocals, saxophone, woodwinds, fiddle, keyboards (1982—1985)
Merel Bregante — drums (1984–1985)
Gary Burr - vocals, guitars (1982–1985, 1998–2000)
Joel Rosenblatt — drums (1985–1986)
Dan Clawson — saxophone (1985–1988)
Steve Speelman — drums (1986–1988)
Rick Schell - vocals, drums, percussion (1998–2012)
Jeff Wilson — guitars (1980–1982)
Fats Kaplin — pedal steel guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, accordion, washboard (1998–2010)
Curtis Wright - vocals, guitars (2000–2006)
Chris Peterson — vocals, guitar (1978)
Jeff Redefer - guitar (1978)
Jeff Kirk — saxophone (1979)
Jack Sundrud – bass (2006)
Rick Plant - bass (2006)
Jeff “Stick” Davis – bass (2007)
Pure Prairie League Discography Full
1972 Pure Prairie League
1972 Bustin' Out
1975 Two Lane Highway
1976 If the Shoe Fits
1976 Dance
1977 Takin' the Stage
1978 Just Fly
1979 Can't Hold Back
1980 Firin' Up
1981 Something in the Night
1987 Mementos 1971-1987 (re-recordings)
1995 Best Of (Casablanca)
1999 Greatest Hits (RCA)
2005 All in Good Time...
