| Blue and Gray | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Poco |
| Cover: | POCO Blue and Gray 1981.JPEG |
| Released: | July 1981 |
| Genre: | Country rock |
| Length: | 38:25 |
| Label: | MCA |
| Producer: | Mike Flicker |
| Prev Title: | Under the Gun |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Cowboys & Englishmen |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
Blue and Gray is the thirteenth studio album by the American country rock band Poco, released in 1981. The album is a theme-based record, similar to Desperado by The Eagles, only the theme on this record is the American Civil War. The band scored minor chart success with "Widowmaker". The colors in the title refer to United States Army and Confederate States Army uniforms of the period, respectively.
In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder wrote, "this isn't a bad album, and at least benefits from more energy and ambition than its immediate predecessor, Under the Gun. There's some fine playing throughout and generally good singing, and some of the writing is inspired, although there are some lapses into lightweight, unmemorable fare also. A little more consistency might have lofted this album to the level of the band's best recent work, but it's still worth hearing as one of the more ambitious records ever to come from this long-lived country-rock band—and it certainly didn't deserve the obscurity that enveloped it."
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