Richie Furay

Richie Furay is one of those quietly foundational figures I have a soft spot for. Co-founding Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, he helped invent country rock across not one but three bands, yet he never chased the spotlight. Kind Woman, written for his wife Nancy, still carries a warmth that lingers. Learning he later became a pastor made his music make even more sense to me; that gentleness was clearly who he is. He is a craftsman who left behind beautiful work without fanfare, and those are exactly the artists I find myself returning to.

Name (English)

Richie Furay

Name (Japanese)

リッチー・フューレイ

Reading

りっちー・ふゅーれい

Born

May 9, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / composer / guitarist / singer

• Official sitehttps://www.richiefuray.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/richiefuray
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie%20Furay
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48999

Tags

• Ohio
• singer-songwriter
• composer
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.