BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A band who was seminal in the country-rock genre and took the genre to the top of the charts will perform at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center, it was announced.
Pure Prairie League, which with The Eagles defined country rock in the early 1970s and had a No. 1 hit with the song “Let Me Love You Tonight,” will play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4.
Tickets, at $38-$45, go on sale at 10 a.m. today, Friday, July 11, at the SteelStacks website, or at the ArtsQuest Center box office.SteelStacks.org
Tickets, at $38-$45, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 11, at the SteelStacks websiteor at the ArtsQuest Center box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.
Pure Prairie League released its first album in 1972, the same year as The Eagles.
It broke into the charts the same year with its sophomore disc “Bustin’ Out,” which hit the Top 40 and had the Top 30 hit “Amie.”
It had its biggest success with 1980’s Top 40 album “Firin’ Up” and the hit “Let Me Love You Tonight,” which hit the Top 10 on the overall charts and No. 1 on the country chart.
Pure Prairie League also had a Top 5 country hit with “Still Right Here in My Heart” in 1981.
The group's lead singer from 1978-82 was Vince Gill, who went on to have 45 Top 40 hits on the Country chart in a solo career that put him in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The group now has no original members; vocalist/drummer Scott Thompson has been with the band 14 years.
In a career of more than 50 years, Pure Prairie League now has released 15 albums, the latest of which was "Back on Track" last year.
The group played a paid-ticket show with Poco at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks in Bethlehem in 2013.
