Hall of famer Richie Furay reunites with Buffalo Springfield

BROOMFIELD, COLO. — Richie Furay could be the forgotten rock ’n’ roll pioneer.

The 67-year-old pastor in Broomfield, northwest of Denver, has roots deep in the annals of rock music — he’s a co-founder of the seminal 1960s band Buffalo Springfield and regarded as an architect of a genre that dominated radio in the early 1970s.

But aside from rock historians and music geeks, few people know anything about Furay, whose own band has trouble booking shows in Colorado.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, Furay doesn’t like to play up his accolades.

“Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage — I’m having fun,” he said recently, sitting in the office of his small church.

Furay’s relative anonymity is already changing, thanks to the reunion of Buffalo Springfield, the group he formed in 1966 with Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Bruce Palmer.

Although Buffalo Springfield disbanded after two years and three albums, critics for decades have heralded the group for its four-part harmonies and instrumental prowess, saying the band had the makings to become the American Beatles.

Last October, Buffalo Springfield reunited — for the first time in 42 years — for the famed annual Bridge School benefit concert in San Francisco.

Last month, the band went on tour, playing a series of concerts in California and at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee.

Fans were drawn to see rock history and the group’s major players, Young and Stills.

Many probably left the sold-out events wondering who that other guy was, the rhythm guitarist and singer standing between Young and Stills.

“In Springfield, Richie was a key singer and key writer,” said Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who attended a show in Oakland. “In a sense, Richie was the anchor. He was the centre as well as a central figure. I thought he was one of the highlights of the show.”

While he may be less famous than Young and Stills, Furay is a strong root in rock’s family tree.

Furay helped develop the country-rock style that defined the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Pure Prairie League and Linda Ronstadt.

Furay grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His musical career started in New York in a folk band with Stills.

Furay and Stills later moved to Los Angeles, where they met up with Canadians Young and Palmer and formed Buffalo Springfield.

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