Poco - Heart Of The Night Live 2004 “Heart of the Night” is a song on the 1978 album release by the country-rock group Poco entitled Legend; the 1979 hit single is also featured on the group retrospective 20th Century Masters, as well as The Essential Poco The song’s lead vocalist and composer Paul Cotton would describe “Heart of the Night” as a song which (Paul Cotton quote:) “kind of wrote itself...in twenty minutes”, being “inspired by my love and lust for New Orleans”, a city Cotton had prev