the Souther Hillman Furey Band

The the Souther Hilman Furey Band, with Gordon, Perkins, and Harris.  Souther is JD.  Richie Furey was in the Buffalo Springfield and Poco.   It could be argued that Chris Hillman invented country rock.  He was in the Byrds.  I read tons about these guys in a great book last summer, called Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles, by Barney Hoskins.   The other three guys are: keyboard player Paul Harris.  Al Perkins, from Texas - whom the Gibson guitar company once called "the world's most influential dobro player."  They even made and sold an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins.  They lastly - perhaps, after Hal Blaine, the greatest (and certainly more prolific) sideman/session drummer in the known universe.  There should be a book on they guy, but the ending is too sad and tragic to write or re-tell.  I find it one of the most fascinating tibbits in rock and roll, that this drummer wrote the extended piano outro on Layla.