August 31, 2018

CSN: Crosby, Stills & Nash

Atlantic SD-19104

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Presswell Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk Rock
[Tracklist]
A1 Shadow Captain (4:32)
A2 See The Changes (2:56)
A3 Carried Away (2:29)
A4 Fair Game (3:30)
A5 Anything At All (3:01)
A6 Cathedral (5:15)
B1 Dark Star (4:43)
B2 Just A Song Before I Go (2:12)
B3 Run From Tears (4:09)
B4 Cold Rain (2:32)
B5 In My Dreams (5:10)
B6 I Give You Give Blind (3:21)
[Credits]
David Crosby (vocals) Stephen Stills (guitar/vocals) Graham Nash (piano/harmonica/vocals) Joe Vitale (organ/flute/drums/percussion) Russ Kunkel (drums/congas) Craig Doege (piano) George Perry (bass) Tim Drummond (bass)
Producer and Recorder: Howard Albert and Ron Albert, Designer: Gary Burden and R. Twerk & Co., Photographer: Joel Bernstein, Engineer: Steve Gursky
[Notes]
CSN featured strong writing from all three members, the last time for seventeen years that the band would compose songs and handle vocals without major assistance from outside sources.Many of Stills' songs on the album echo his marital problems, with "Dark Star" returning to the Latin rhythms he had favored all the way back to his Buffalo Springfield days. Crosby continued the existential probings consistent with much of his past work, and Nash offered both a radio-ready acoustic ballad with "Just a Song Before I Go", and an elaborate set piece re-creating a vision of an LSD experience that he had in Winchester Cathedral with "Cathedral". Many tracks were sweetened with a string section, a first on a CSNY project.

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