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| Allmusic Biography : The musical partnership of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, with and without Neil Young, was not only one of the most successful touring and recording acts of the late 60s, 70s, and early 80s (with the colorful, contrasting nature of the members characters and their connection to the political and cultural upheavals of the time), it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles. The group was a second marriage for all the participants when it came together in 1968: Crosby had been a member of the Byrds, Nash was in the Hollies, and Stills had been part of Buffalo Springfield. The resulting trio, however, sounded like none of its predecessors and was characterized by a unique vocal blend and a musical approach that ranged from acoustic folk to melodic pop to hard rock. Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969, was perfectly in tune with the times, and the group proved an instant hit. By the time of their first tour (which included the Woodstock festival), they had added Young, also a veteran of Buffalo Springfield, who maintained a solo career. The first CSNY album, Déjà Vu, was a chart-topping hit in 1970, but the group split acrimoniously after a summer tour. Four Way Street, a live double album issued after the breakup, was another number one hit. In 1974, CSNY re-formed for a summer stadium tour without releasing a new record -- nevertheless, the compilation So Far became their third straight number one. Crosby, Stills & Nash re-formed without Young in 1977 for the album CSN, another giant hit. They followed with Daylight Again in 1982, but by then Crosby was in the throes of drug addiction and increasing legal problems. He was in jail in 1985-1986, but cleaned up and returned to action, with the result that CSNY reunited for only their second studio album, American Dream, in 1988. CSN followed with Live It Up in 1990, and though that album was a commercial disappointment, the trio remained a popular live act; it embarked on a 25th anniversary tour in the summer of 1994 and released a new album, After the Storm. The trio again reunited with Young for 1999s Looking Forward, followed in 2000 by their CSNY2K tour. A DVD/CD set, CSN 2012, was filmed and recorded during a 2012 tour, and released that same year. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 14 Title: Crosby, Stills & Nash Released: 1969-05-29 Tracks: 10 Duration: 40:40 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (07:24) 2 Marrakesh Express (02:37) 3 Guinnevere (04:39) 4 You Don’t Have to Cry (02:44) 5 Pre‐Road Downs (02:57) 6 Wooden Ships (05:27) 7 Lady of the Island (02:38) 8 Helplessly Hoping (02:41) 9 Long Time Gone (04:17) 10 49 Bye‐Byes (05:13) |
| Crosby, Stills & Nash : Allmusic album Review : The Crosby, Stills & Nash triumvirate shot to immediate superstardom with the release of its self-titled debut LP, a sparkling set immortalizing the groups amazingly close, high harmonies. While elements of the record havent dated well -- Nashs Eastern-influenced musings on the hit "Marrakesh Express" now seem more than a little silly, while the antiwar sentiments of "Wooden Ships," though well-intentioned, are rather hokey -- the harmonies are absolutely timeless, and the best material remains rock-solid. Stills gorgeous opener, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," in particular, is an epic love song remarkable in its musical and emotional intricacy, Nashs "Pre-Road Downs" is buoyant folk-pop underpinned by light psychedelic textures, and Crosbys "Long Time Gone" remains a potent indictment of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. A definitive document of its era. | ||
 | Album: 2 of 14 Title: CSN Released: 1977-06-17 Tracks: 12 Duration: 44:12 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Shadow Captain (04:33) 2 See the Changes (02:59) 3 Carried Away (02:33) 4 Fair Game (03:30) 5 Anything at All (03:05) 6 Cathedral (05:16) 7 Dark Star (04:46) 8 Just a Song Before I Go (02:13) 9 Run From Tears (04:03) 10 Cold Rain (02:35) 11 In My Dreams (05:13) 12 I Give You Give Blind (03:20) |
| CSN : Allmusic album Review : The times had certainly changed since Déjà Vus release in 1970. Nevertheless, there was a hunger in audiences for a return to the harmony-soaked idealism with which the trio had been catapulted to popularity, and CSN consequently reached number two on the charts, behind Fleetwood Macs megasuccessful Rumours. The music here is very good, though probably not up to the hard-to-match level of Crosby, Stills & Nash or Déjà Vu. Still, the songs showed a great deal of lyrical maturity and compositional complexity compared to those earlier albums (from a far more innocent time). "Just a Song Before I Go" was the latest of Graham Nashs radio-friendly acoustic numbers, and a Top Ten single. "See the Changes" and "Dark Star" ranked with the best of Stephen Stills work, while David Crosby contributed three classics from his distinctive oeuvre: "Shadow Captain," "Anything at All," and the beautiful "In My Dreams." Nashs multi-part "Cathedral," a recollection of an acid trip taken in Winchester Cathedral on his 32nd birthday, became a staple of the groups live repertoire. CSN was the trios last fully realized album, and also the last recording on which the three principals handled all the vocal parts without the sweetening of additional voices. It has held up remarkably well, both as a memento of its time and as a thoroughly enjoyable musical work. | ||
 | Album: 3 of 14 Title: Replay Released: 1980-12-08 Tracks: 11 Duration: 38:25 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Carry On (03:18) 2 Marrakesh Express (02:37) 3 Just a Song Before I Go (02:13) 4 First Things First (02:17) 5 Shadow Captain (04:33) 6 To the Last Whale: Critical Mass / Wind on the Water (05:30) 7 Love the One You’re With (03:06) 8 Pre‐Road Downs (02:57) 9 Change Partners (03:14) 10 I Give You Give Blind (03:23) 11 Cathedral (05:16) |
| Replay : Allmusic album Review : This poorly conceived and ultimately redundant compilation suitably came out just in time for the 1980 holiday season. The strong showing of Stephen Stills titles and the fact that he chose to rewrite history by "updating" (read "altering") two of his own compositions, "Carry On" and "I Give You Give Blind," provide enough evidence to indict him for overseeing such an extraneous anthology. Although a majority of Replay (1980) consists of better-known selections from the Crosby, Stills & Nash canon, tellingly there is as much missing as there is included. Presumably, the idea behind this collection was to augment the So Far (1974) hits package without overlapping material, as well as provide a sampling of side projects. In theory that might seem a noble enough cause; however, there are no David Crosby or Graham Nash cuts. Instead, Stills "Love the One Youre With," "Change Partners," and "First Things First" clutter this otherwise haphazard aggregate, but it is the remixed and re-recorded rendering of "Carry On" that is probably the worst offender. For starters, to facilitate the removal of the "Questions" section from the Déjà Vu (1970) version, the drums and bass have been overdubbed and a new lead guitar solo from (who else?) Stills has been inserted in its stead. All the while, the vocal-and-acoustic-guitar introduction remains intact from the original. When CS&N resumed touring in the early- to mid-80s, they adopted this altered arrangement for their live performances. The most obvious change to "I Give You Give Blind" has been the removal of the somewhat superfluous string section, resulting in a leaner and edgier feel. The rest of this hails from Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969), Déjà Vu (1970), and CSN (1977). The sole Crosby & Nash inclusion, "Wind on the Water," comes off of the long-player of the same name. . | ||
 | Album: 4 of 14 Title: Live in L.A. Released: 1982 Tracks: 21 Duration: 1:45:44 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Turn Your Back On Love (05:32) 2 Chicago (03:59) 3 Just A Song Before I Go (02:38) 4 Wooden Ships (08:03) 5 Dark Star (06:10) 6 Barrel Of Pain (06:14) 7 To The Last Whale: Ciritcal Mass & Wind On The Water (06:18) 8 You Dont Have To Cry (03:06) 9 Blackbird (03:05) 10 Wasted On The Way (03:38) 11 Delta (04:57) 1 Treetop Flyer (05:37) 2 Magical Child (03:59) 3 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (09:01) 4 Cathedral (07:27) 5 Southern Cross (04:34) 6 Long Time Gone (05:16) 7 For What Its Worth (05:49) 8 Love The One Youre With (04:22) 9 Teach Your Children (03:23) 10 Daylight Again (02:27) |
| Live in L.A. : Allmusic album Review : On their tour promoting Daylight Again, Crosby, Stills & Nash played three nights at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles over the Thanksgiving Day weekend in 1982, and they taped and filmed the shows for a TV special. The Dutch Immortal label has licensed the audio tracks for this 21-song, 105-minute, two-CD set, and it chronicles a high point in the bands career. (Immortal also has a DVD version of Live in L.A., which is essentially a reissue of the 1983 MCA home video called Daylight Again.) At the outset, a professional-sounding announcer talks over the instrumental opening of "Turn Your Back on Love," stopping the split second the vocal begins, just like a disc jockey. But that is the only incursion into the show, which otherwise draws from CSNs back catalog of hits and favorites in a familiar format, starting with an electric set that gives way to an extended acoustic segment that further breaks down into solo spots, and then revving back up for an electric finish before sending the crowd out with a singalong of "Teach Your Children" and the folk blues "Daylight Again" as a coda. After months on tour, the singers voices are a bit the worse for wear, or maybe its just that one is accustomed to the polish of the studio recordings. It doesnt hurt the performances, which actually sound all the more fervent for the occasional vocal grit. Along with the CSN hits, there are occasional borrowings from the individuals repertoire (Crosby & Nashs "Wind on the Water" suite, Stills "For What Its Worth" from his Buffalo Springfield days, a CSN arrangement of the Beatles "Blackbird"), but most of the show is given over to evergreens and then recent radio hits from Daylight Again, notably "Southern Cross," which was peaking in the Top 20 at the time of the concert. Live in L.A. captures a resurgent Crosby, Stills & Nash before their hometown crowd. Clouds may have been gathering on the horizon, with Crosbys substance abuse problems threatening the bands future, but at these shows all seemed well. | ||
 | Album: 5 of 14 Title: Daylight Again Released: 1982-06-21 Tracks: 11 Duration: 40:24 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Turn Your Back on Love (04:49) 2 Wasted on the Way (02:52) 3 Southern Cross (04:42) 4 Into the Darkness (03:24) 5 Delta (04:15) 6 Since I Met You (03:12) 7 Too Much Love to Hide (03:58) 8 Song for Susan (03:09) 9 You Are Alive (03:04) 10 Might as Well Have a Good Time (04:27) 11 Daylight Again (02:28) |
| Daylight Again : Allmusic album Review : Although Crosby, Stills & Nash had, in effect, been together for well over a decade when Daylight Again (1982) was issued, it was only their third studio long-player of concurrently new material. Initially, the project began as a collaborative effort between Stephen Stills (guitar/banjo/keyboards/percussion/vocals) and Graham Nash (guitar/keyboards/percussion/vocals), as David Crosby was descending into a self-induced state of perpetual drug dependency. However, Crosby was included, although arguably in name alone, and his hauntingly lyrical "Delta" stands as one of his finest contributions. Perhaps the most telling element in the trios state of affairs was the addition of the Eagles Timothy B. Schmit and CSN bandmember Mike Finnigan (keyboards/vocals) on vocals throughout. Despite that obvious setback, the other two primary namesakes supply some genuine and uniformly excellent material to the proceedings. Among the most notable are Nashs "Wasted on the Way" -- which was lyrically an ode to the status of the groups union -- and Stills collaboration with the Curtis Brothers on "Southern Cross." Both were extracted as singles and became among the best-known tracks not only on Daylight Again, but also in the post-60s CSN canon. The disc also includes a few thoroughly affective ballads such as "Song for Susan" -- which Nash wrote for his spouse -- and Stills equally emotive "You Are Alive." By contrast, the albums opener, "Turn Your Back on Love," as well as "Too Much Love to Hide" and "Since I Met You" are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarists most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker. The disc concludes with Stills lone solo composition on the album -- a two-part track marrying the newly penned Civil War elegy to a chorus of the 1970 anthem "Find the Cost of Freedom." Again, Crosbys absence is noted with the incorporation of Art Garfunkels vocals where Crosbys should have been. Daylight Again is by no means as insipid as their next studio effort, Live It Up (1990). In the wake of their eponymously titled debut and the CSN (1977) follow-up, there is a notable change in the direction and quality of material. | ||
 | Album: 6 of 14 Title: Allies Released: 1983 Tracks: 10 Duration: 42:20 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 War Games (02:21) 2 Raise a Voice (02:33) 3 Turn Your Back on Love (05:18) 4 Barrel of Pain (06:15) 5 Shadow Captain (04:44) 6 Dark Star (04:59) 7 Blackbird (03:02) 8 He Played Real Good for Free (03:59) 9 Wasted on the Way (03:21) 10 For What Its Worth (05:45) |
| Allies : Allmusic album Review : This disc was originally to have coincided with the release of the cinematic film War Games -- as the song had been written, recorded, and was even used in early promotional trailers. Likewise, it became both the opening for this album as well as the A-side of a 45 rpm single with the belief that it would be prominently featured in the film. At the 11th hour -- and for mostly political reasons -- the song was removed from the project. So what hit record racks as Allies was a perplexing collection of studio and live tracks -- some dating back over half a decade. Although haphazardly compiled, the lack of cohesion doesnt diminish the value of a majority of the albums performances. In addition to Stephen Stills up-tempo synth-laden rocker "War Games," Graham Nash co-wrote Allies other new tune -- the comparatively tame ecologic and politically aware "Raise a Voice." Tellingly, neither tune contained involvement from David Crosby, who was out of commission during most of the 80s. His presence was felt, however, in the concert recordings which were chosen primarily by Nash and derived from two different shows: a 1977 Houston, TX, performance and a more recent 1982 show at the New Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA. From CSNs November 22, 1977, Houston show is one of the highlights of this package -- David Crosbys acoustic cover of Joni Mitchells "(He Played Real Good) For Free." Crosbys interpretation gives a lonesome renegade quality to the composition that is subdued from Mitchells own readings. During the final lines, Nash joins Crosby for some unmistakably gorgeous harmony vocals -- proving their inherent value as a duo. The band version of "Shadow Captain" that also hails from the 1977 show is indeed passable, if not a bit reserved, as it varies little from its studio counterpart. The entire Houston performance was simulcast throughout North America and truncated segments of the show have been rebroadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour syndicated radio program ever since. The remaining six performances come from a November 19, 1982, show that not only was simulcast live, highlights were compiled for the Daylight Again home video release. Again, the conspicuous absence of David Crosbys normally robust vocals and fretwork indicate the nonentity/liability his on-stage presence had sadly become. Among the highlights in this batch is the cover of Paul McCartneys "Blackbird" -- which easily bests the Beatles White Album version with some surprisingly agile vocal blends from the trio. A rambunctious electric "For What Its Worth" closes Allies on a definite high note with Stills asserting himself as the preeminent electric guitarist that he was during this era. As the album failed at the cash register and subsequently on the charts, it remained out of print in North America since the mid 80s. In August of 1990, Atlantic Records Japan licensed Allies for compact disc. Few import copies made it to the States before the title became the subject of international legal wrangling at which point it was deleted -- making it highly sought after by fans and collectors alike. While it is certainly not an accurate career retrospective or really even a decent live album, Allies has a few bright moments and is worth at least a listen. | ||
 | Album: 7 of 14 Title: Live It Up Released: 1990-06-15 Tracks: 10 Duration: 39:53 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Live It Up (03:55) 2 If Anybody Had a Heart (04:28) 3 Tomboy (03:19) 4 Haven’t We Lost Enough? (03:06) 5 Yours and Mine (04:44) 6 (Got to Keep) Open (04:44) 7 Straight Line (03:17) 8 House of Broken Dreams (03:20) 9 Arrows (03:53) 10 After the Dolphin (05:03) |
| Live It Up : Allmusic album Review : More than the harmonies or the scandals, what made CSN a major force was that they wrote great songs. Thats what is missing on their first full-fledged trio album since CSN in 1977. They sing earnestly and well, and they are augmented, as ever, by the small, efficient army of players, such as Craig Doerge and Joe Vitale, who have made a career supporting them, but they just dont come up with the big songs theyve led listeners to expect. (In fact, there are quite a few songs by others.) As a result, this is the least-satisfying of CSNs studio albums. Not surprisingly, it flopped badly in record stores. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 14 Title: Carry On Released: 1991 Tracks: 36 Duration: 2:26:37 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Woodstock (03:56) 2 Marrakesh Express (02:37) 3 You Don’t Have to Cry (02:44) 4 Teach Your Children (02:55) 5 Love the One You’re With (03:06) 6 Almost Cut My Hair (08:51) 7 Wooden Ships (05:27) 8 Dark Star (04:59) 9 Helpless (03:37) 10 Chicago (04:01) 11 Cathedral (05:16) 12 4 + 20 (02:08) 13 Our House (03:01) 14 To the Last Whale (05:31) 15 Change Partners (03:14) 16 Just a Song Before I Go (02:13) 17 Ohio (03:02) 18 Wasted on the Way (02:52) 19 Southern Cross (04:42) 1 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (07:24) 2 Carry On (04:27) 3 Horses Through a Rainstorm (03:39) 4 Johnny’s Garden (02:46) 5 Guinnevere (04:46) 6 Helplessly Hoping (02:32) 7 The Lee Shore (05:31) 8 Taken at All (02:56) 9 Shadow Captain (04:33) 10 As I Come of Age (02:49) 11 Drive My Car (03:51) 12 Dear Mr. Fantasy (07:05) 13 In My Dreams (05:12) 14 Yours and Mine (04:28) 15 Haven’t We Lost Enough? (03:06) 16 After the Dolphin (05:03) 17 Find the Cost of Freedom (02:01) |
| Carry On : Allmusic album Review : This two-CD set, issued for the European and Australian markets, has proved among the most popular of Crosby, Stills & Nashs imports since its release in 1998. Not as hefty, physically or monetarily, as the 1991 four-CD box, it limits itself to the groups hits and popular and important LP cuts -- many represented by outtake versions and alternate mixes -- interspersed with popular tracks from the work of Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and David Crosby (solo and partnered together), and adds what is mostly the best of the previously unissued Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young material from the box. Its a good survey of the trios best moments and the three members most effective solo outings, and presents their most appealing side -- one assumes that a future Graham Nash compilation will include room for tracks like "I Used to Be a King" or "Military Madness" and that Crosbys best stuff off of his first solo album will be compiled that way as well. The inclusion of Crosbys 1968 version of "Guinevere," the early alternate mix of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and a handful of additional outtakes that surfaced on the box are the places where the set departs from a standard best-of, but that departure is justified and welcome, separating this set from the So Far album, and anyone who didnt spring for the four-CD set will be delighted. There are no notes, but none are needed either, and the only drawback for some will be the fact that the stuff isnt presented in remotely chronological order. | ||
 | Album: 9 of 14 Title: After the Storm Released: 1994 Tracks: 12 Duration: 46:13 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Only Waiting for You (04:03) 2 Find a Dream (03:51) 3 Camera (04:20) 4 Unequal Love (04:46) 5 Till It Shines (04:19) 6 It Wont Go Away (04:17) 7 These Empty Days (02:30) 8 In My Life (02:20) 9 Street to Lean On (03:36) 10 Bad Boyz (04:17) 11 After the Storm (03:35) 12 Panama (04:14) |
| After the Storm : Allmusic album Review : When they began singing together, CSN could bring shivers to the spines of even the hardest of rock cynics. After the Storm doesnt do that. It doesnt even come close, and while there is some first-rate material here, this is pretty much a botched disc. A cover of the Beatles "In My Life is interesting, but Stills did it much more convincingly on his solo effort. Only "These Empty Days" and the title cut, both from Graham Nash, have any of the old magic in them. The rest sounds like tracks made for solo discs that never saw the light of day and were combined in this form so as to sell product. A rather sad reminder of what once was a vital musical force. | ||
 | Album: 10 of 14 Title: The Acoustic Concert Released: 2004-06-08 Tracks: 13 Duration: 1:10:52 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Deja Vu (06:25) 2 Helplessly Hoping (02:34) 3 Just a Song (02:50) 4 Guinnevere (06:44) 5 Marrakesh Express (03:19) 6 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (10:34) 7 Long Time Gone (05:22) 8 To the Last Whale (06:22) 9 Try to Find Me (05:29) 10 1,000 Roads (04:21) 11 Taken at All (03:51) 12 Wooden Ships (09:06) 13 Find the Cost of Freedom (03:55) |
 | Album: 11 of 14 Title: Greatest Hits Released: 2005-03-15 Tracks: 19 Duration: 1:17:18 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (07:24) 2 Long Time Gone (04:17) 3 Just a Song Before I Go (02:13) 4 Southern Cross (04:42) 5 Marrakesh Express (02:37) 6 Helplessly Hoping (02:41) 7 Shadow Captain (04:33) 8 Our House (03:01) 9 Guinnevere (04:39) 10 See the Changes (02:59) 11 Teach Your Children (02:55) 12 Wooden Ships (05:27) 13 Delta (04:15) 14 49 Bye‐Byes (05:13) 15 Wasted on the Way (02:52) 16 Carry On (04:27) 17 In My Dreams (05:13) 18 Cathedral (05:16) 19 Daylight Again (02:28) |
| Greatest Hits : Allmusic album Review : Rhino/Atlantics 2005 compilation Greatest Hits collects the hits and signature songs of Crosby, Stills & Nash -- not Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, which is a subtle difference, and one that would seem to make a greater difference than it actually does. Apart from their debut, CSN always was a bigger deal -- more popular, more critically respected -- when Neil Young was on board, but he only cut one studio album with them in the 70s, so there arent that many songs from CSNY that really would have made the cut on a Greatest Hits. Then again, CSN themselves didnt cut that many studio albums during their late-60s/70s peak. Just three: 1969s eponymous debut, 1970s Déjà Vu with Young, and 1977s CSN. If you were charitable, you could count 1982s Daylight Again as the coda to that peak, since it did produce two excellent (and big) hits in "Wasted on the Way" and "Southern Cross," and it feels more of a piece with the groups classic work than the quartet of albums from 1988 to 1999. That is certainly the perspective taken on this 19-track compilation, which concentrates entirely on material from Crosby, Stills & Nash, Déjà Vu, CSN, and Daylight Again. Even if this means that charting singles from 1988s American Dream and 1990s Live It Up are missing, it does make for a better listen than if they were forced into this set. That said, there are still a couple of major songs missing -- Youngs "Helpless" and "Ohio," of course, but also "Woodstock," "Fair Game," and "Almost Cut My Hair" -- but the great majority of the big hits and signature songs are here. When broken down to sheer numbers, this contains seven of the ten songs from Crosby, Stills & Nash, five of the 12 from CSN, four from Daylight Again, and three from Déjà Vu, making this a generous, well-balanced collection that will satisfy the tastes of those who want a good overview of CSNs biggest and best. It may not have everything -- youll need Déjà Vu or So Far or perhaps just Neil Youngs Greatest Hits for that -- but it has enough to be satisfying. | ||
 | Album: 12 of 14 Title: Rhino Hi-Five: Crosby, Stills & Nash Released: 2006-09-26 Tracks: 5 Duration: 15:47 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Pre‐Road Downs (02:57) 2 Daylight Again (02:28) 3 Song With No Words (03:18) 4 Song for Susan (03:09) 5 Live It Up (03:55) |
 | Album: 13 of 14 Title: Demos Released: 2009-06-01 Tracks: 12 Duration: 42:01 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Marrakesh Express (02:24) 2 Almost Cut My Hair (05:26) 3 You Dont Have to Cry (01:24) 4 Déjà vu (06:38) 5 Sleep Song (03:02) 6 My Love Is a Gentle Thing (02:07) 7 Be Yourself (02:58) 8 Music Is Love (04:16) 9 Singing Call (03:02) 10 Long Time Gone (04:36) 11 Chicago (02:53) 12 Love the One Youre With (03:14) |
| Demos : Allmusic album Review : As part of their ongoing reissue of the Crosby, Stills & Nash catalog, Rhino put out Demos, a collection of early home recordings of staples from the CSN catalog, demos recorded both alone and together between the years of 1968 and 1971. Unlike some similar collections, not much here is especially revelatory; apart from "Love the One Youre With," here almost droning at the beginning, there are no great differences in lyrics or approach, with such solo recordings as "Almost Cut My Hair" pointing clearly to their latter full-blown incarnations. Apart from "Long Time Gone," recorded by Crosby and Stills before Nash joined the group and bearing a full electric arrangement, everything here is simple and spare, recorded with just acoustic guitars and pianos, often lacking harmonies. All this makes the songs themselves the focal point -- and it makes the handful of tracks with some combination of the group stand out, particularly "Music Is Love" with Crosby, Nash, and Neil Young -- and its easy to appreciate their construction when theyre heard stripped down to their bare bones as they are here. Ultimately, what Demos winds up doing is offering a newfound appreciation for what Crosby, Stills & Nash bring to each other, for as good as these demos are -- and theres not a bad cut here -- none of it sounds as complete as when the three harmonize together. | ||
 | Album: 14 of 14 Title: CSN 2012 Released: 2012-07-17 Tracks: 25 Duration: 2:31:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Carry On / Questions (08:43) 2 Marrakesh Express (03:44) 3 Long Time Gone (06:30) 4 Military Madness (04:16) 5 Southern Cross (05:09) 6 Lay Me Down (05:08) 7 Almost Gone (04:33) 8 Wasted On the Way (03:33) 9 Radio (03:48) 10 Bluebird (07:18) 11 Déjà vu (13:18) 12 Wooden Ships (10:40) 1 Helplessly Hoping (05:02) 2 In Your Name (05:06) 3 Girl from the North Country (04:51) 4 As I Come of Age (04:09) 5 Guinevere (07:01) 6 Johnnys Garden (05:22) 7 So Begins the Task (04:03) 8 Cathedral (07:58) 9 Our House (03:46) 10 Love the One Youre With (07:14) 11 For What Its Worth (05:56) 12 Teach Your Children (05:07) 13 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (09:20) |
| CSN 2012 : Allmusic album Review : Unlike previous albums bearing CSN somewhere in the title, CSN 2012 is not a studio album: it is a live set capturing the formidable trio on their 2012 tour. It is an unabashed stroll with CSN peppering their standards with the occasional cover -- Bob Dylans “Girl from the North Country” -- and a few newer tunes. At times, signs of age are evident -- there are certain high harmonies they can no longer hit, Stills is particularly gravelly -- but the crack team of pros help patch up potholes, keeping things smooth and easy. This live set was primarily intended as a home video release, so it’s perhaps best appreciated as a DVD or BluRay, but in any form it’s warm, friendly nostalgia. | ||