Bronco were an English rock/country band signed to Island & Polydor Records 1969-1973.

History

Formed August 1969 by Jess Roden

Jess Roden

Jess Roden is an English rock singer and guitarist.-Biography:Roden's first band was The Raiders followed by The Shakedown Sound which also included the guitarist, Kevyn Gammond, and keyboard player August Eadon ....

 following his split from The Alan Bown Set

The Alan Bown Set

The Alan Bown Set later known as The Alan Bown! or just Alan Bown, were a British band of the 1960s and 1970s whose music evolved from jazz and blues through soul and rhythm and blues and ended up as psychedelia and progressive rock...

, Bronco were signed to Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 and released two albums 'Country Home' and 'Ace of Sunlight'. Roden left the band mid 1972 to start a solo career, guitarist Robbie Blunt

Robbie Blunt

Robbie Blunt is a rock guitarist who has worked with a variety of bands, most notably Robert Plant's in the 1980s. Since leaving Plant's band in the mid-1980s, Blunt has provided session work for a number of artists, such as Julian Lennon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Clannad.-w/ Robert...

 soon followed, the remaining members drafted in Paul Lockey on vocals (who both Kevyn Gammond and Pete Robinson knew form various incarnations of The Band of Joy) and Dan Fone on guitar, they released one last album this time with Polydor records 'Smoking Mixture'.

Bronco's bass player John Pasternak died of a heart attack in September 1986. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...

 fronted a tribute event for Pasternak in December of that year.

Two Bronco tracks are featured on Island records compilation albums: 'Love' appears on 'Bumpers' released in 1970 and 'Sudden Street' appears on 'El Pea' (1971).

More recently the Bronco track 'Time Slips Away' has been included on the Island Records compilation 'Meet On The Ledge', released as part of Island's 50th anniversary in 2009.

Members

1969 - 1972

Jess Roden

Jess Roden

Jess Roden is an English rock singer and guitarist.-Biography:Roden's first band was The Raiders followed by The Shakedown Sound which also included the guitarist, Kevyn Gammond, and keyboard player August Eadon ....

 Lead Vocals

Robbie Blunt

Robbie Blunt

Robbie Blunt is a rock guitarist who has worked with a variety of bands, most notably Robert Plant's in the 1980s. Since leaving Plant's band in the mid-1980s, Blunt has provided session work for a number of artists, such as Julian Lennon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Clannad.-w/ Robert...

 Guitar

John Pasternak - Bass

Kevyn Gammond - Guitar

Pete Robinson - Drums

1972 - 1973

Paul Lockey

Band of Joy

The Band of Joy are a rock band from England. Various lineups of the group performed from 1965 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983...

 - Guitar, Lead Vocals

John Pasternak

Band of Joy

The Band of Joy are a rock band from England. Various lineups of the group performed from 1965 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983...

 - Bass

Kevyn Gammond

Band of Joy

The Band of Joy are a rock band from England. Various lineups of the group performed from 1965 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983...

- Guitar, Vocals

Pete Robinson - Drums, Harmonica

Dan Fone - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

Discography

Country Home
1970
Label: Island ILPS 9124

1. Civil Of You Stranger

2. Love

3. Misfit On Your Stair

4. Bumpers West

5. Home

6. Well Anyhow

7. Time (So Long Between)

Ace Of Sunlight
1971
Label: Island ILPS 9161

1. Amber Moon

2. Time Slips Away

3. Some Uncertainty

4. Woman

5. New Day Avenue

6. Discernible

7. Sudden Street

8. Joys & Fears

Smoking Mixture
1973
Label: Polydor 2383 215

1. Steal That Gold

2. Tennessee Saturday Night

3. Tell Me Why

4. Attraction

5. Southbound State Express

6. Turkey In The Straw

7. Zonker

8. Blueberry Pie

9. Strange Awakening