Head Over Heels is the ninth album by the country rock

Country rock

Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...

 band Poco

Poco

Poco is an Southern California country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The title of their first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, is a reference to the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Highly influential and creative,...

. Schmit's "Keep On Tryin'" shows off the band's skills in harmonizing and became a cut that the band played in concert for many years. It also contains Rusty Young performing his first lead vocal on a Poco album on the track "Us", and a recording of the rare Steely Dan

Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...

 song "Dallas".

Track listing

1. "Keep On Tryin’" (Timothy B. Schmit) – 2:54
2. "Lovin’ Arms" (Rusty Young) – 3:29
3. "Let Me Turn Back To You" (Paul Cotton) – 3:37
4. "Makin’ Love" (Rusty Young) – 2:55
5. "Down In The Quarter" (Paul Cotton) – 4:32
6. "Sittin’ On A Fence" (Rusty Young) – 3:31
7. "Georgia, Bind My Ties" (Paul Cotton) – 3:25
8. "Us" (Rusty Young) – 1:56
9. "Flyin’ Solo" (Timothy B. Schmit, Jacob Otis Brennan) – 3:36
10. "Dallas" (Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen
    Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan ....
    
    , Walter Becker
    Walter Becker
    Walter Carl Becker is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and a co-writer of Steely Dan.-Career:...
    
    ) – 3:29
11. "I’ll Be Back Again" (Timothy B. Schmit) – 3:02

Personnel

• Paul Cotton
  Paul Cotton (musician)
  Paul Cotton is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, most notable as a member of the band Poco and as the writer of the international hit song from that band, "The Heart of the Night".-History:Most of Paul Cotton's music career has been as songwriter, guitarist and singer for the band Poco...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Rusty Young - steel guitar, guitar, vocals
• Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...
  
   - bass, vocals
• George Grantham - drums, vocals

• Donald Fagen
  Donald Fagen
  Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan ....
  
   – synthesizer
• Victor Feldman
  Victor Feldman
  Victor Stanley Feldman was a British jazz musician, best known as a pianist.-Early history:...
  
   – percussion
• Steve Forman – percussion
• Al Garth – violin
• Mark Henry Harman – keyboards, piano, cello
• Jimmie Haskell
  Jimmie Haskell
  Jimmie Haskell born Sheridan Pearlman 1936 in Brooklyn, New York is a prolific American composer and arranger for a variety of popular singers and motion pictures.-Biography:...
  
   – strings
• Milt Holland
  Milt Holland
  Milt Holland was an American drummer, percussionist, ethnic musicologist, and writer in the Los Angeles music scene who pioneered the use of African, South American, and Indian percussion styles in jazz, pop and film music, traveling extensively on those continents to collect instruments and to...
  
   – percussion
• Garth Hudson
  Garth Hudson
  Eric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound...
  
   – keyboards
• Michael Von Verdick – vocals

Production

• Producer: Poco
  Poco
  Poco is an Southern California country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The title of their first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, is a reference to the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Highly influential and creative,...
  
  , Mark Henry Harman
• Recording Engineer: Mark Henry Harman