Crosby Stills & Nash - Demos
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Artist: Crosby Stills & NashBrand: CROSBY,STILLS & NAS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-06-02
Music Label: Rhino Records
Product features:
- CROSBY,STILLS & NASH DEMOS
- Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
- Almost Cut My Hair (David Crosby)
- You Don't Have To Cry (Stephen Stills)
- Deja Vu (David Crosby)
- Sleep Song (Graham Nash)
- My Love Is A Gentle Thing (Stephen Stills)
- Be Yourself (Graham Nash)
- Music Is Love (David Crosby, Neil Young & Graham Nash)
- Singing Call (Stephen Stills)
- Long Time Gone (David Crosby & Stephen Stills)
- Chicago (Graham Nash)
- Love The One You're With (Stephen Stills)
Free Music Notes for Demos
Free Music Review: These ARE the Originals - all Masterpieces !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
CSN - DEMOS
Wow! ... Who woulda thunk it?! ... After all these years, Crosby, Stills & Nash have unearthed these buried gems for all of us to enjoy. You WILL enjoy them, too, because these are all great songs. In good conscience, I cannot say that these songs are better than the originals. ... Why? ... Because these songs ARE the originals! ... Amazing stuff here. These performances are just as good - if not BETTER - than all of the previously released versions of these songs on the records we grew up listening to. Once you put this disc into your player, I guarantee that you will have a hard time taking it out right away to listen to something else. You will not want to. You will want to listen to these tunes over and over again for a while. They are that good. Most of these songs were recorded around 1971, one of the best years for music.
After listening to this album over a dozen times in the past few days, I can safely say that this is one of their greatest albums ever. It is intimate, personal, and powerful. Not all of the recordings are perfect sonically, as you can hear some analog tape hiss at times on a few of them, especially on the songs by Stephen Stills - and though I am delighted to hear a simple, stripped-down version of Love The One You're With (the one released on his first solo album was so overproduced and mixed so sonically busy that you had a hard time hearing everything clearly!), I think the vocals here could still have been raised up a little higher in the mix over the guitar, but maybe that was impossible (even with all the modern computer technology software programs). Still, this raw version is a joy to listen to. It ROCKS!
Track #1, Marrakesh Express, by Graham Nash, is clear and audible, and more folksy in some ways than the one on the first album. The sound is pristine. It has a very bouncy and lively, up-beat feel to it. A great start to a great record!
Track #2, Almost Cut My Hair, by David Crosby, is slower and more intimate - but just as powerful - as the one on Déjà vu. David Crosby's guitar SINGS! When he hits those chords in those special places, it will send chills up your spine! Also, you can really hear the lyrics very clearly for the first time and make out exactly what David Crosby is saying. The recording of this song is OUTSTANDING. This is the way to record music. Russ Gary, the recording engineer, should have recorded all of their music because this guy knows how to make magic in the recording studio. It sounds like it could have been an outtake from the Graham Nash / David Crosby album, their great, first duo album together, released in 1972. It has that mystical, ambient "space" that surrounds the song's sonic character. It's like you're right there. Beautiful!
Track #3, You Don't Have To Cry, by Stephen Stills, suffers from very audible, analog tape hiss - but it does not take away from the beauty of the song, even though the song only lasts for a minute and twenty-three seconds. This is a short and sweet version of this song, and more laid-back. I'm glad it's included on here.
Track #4, Déjà vu, by David Crosby, is a masterpiece! Again, like track #2, it was recorded by Russ Gary, and the sound is amazing. A man, his voice, and his guitar - and it's pure magic! What heart and soul! What sublime, intense power! Feel the magic at the 50 second point in the song, when David ends the introduction and hits one note on his guitar, turning the tone of the tune on a dime into mystical territory! Later, he gets jazzy and starts to scat in his own Crosby-ish way. No, there is no band here to back him up - and he needs none. God bless you, David Crosby!
Track #5, Sleep Song, by Graham Nash, is such a personal and intimate portrait of a man's deep inner feelings about the one he loves. Ah, Joni Mitchell - the Muse of Music has graced you with her wonderful and awesome power! What it does to a sensitive man's soul is beyond words - but Graham Nash comes as close as is humanely possible as a sensitive man may be capable of doing. Whew! Just LISTEN to this charming and precious, even kind of mournful (but not depressing, actually uplifting!), lovely, little lullaby that is as heartbreaking as it is soothing and see how Graham Nash can take you, the listener, right inside of his soul and help you feel exactly how he was feeling when he sang this incredibly moving song. This man has pure soul - and he can hit those high notes perfectly.
Track #6, My Love Is A Gentle Thing, by Stephen Stills, is a beautiful, little song with a pretty melody and great lyrics. Stephen Stills is one of the best finger-pickers out there, and this song makes that clear. Of all the songs on this album, sonically, this one is the most "demo-ish"-sounding. But the song does not suffer for it. Its beauty shines through. It could be that with all his rough and tumble exterior at times, Stephen Stills might be one of the most sensitive singer-songwriters of our generation. This little gem points in that direction.
Track #7, Be Yourself, by Graham Nash and Terry Reid, is my favorite song on this album. It is perfect. It is classic. I cannot get it out of my head. This man knows how to write a great song. You will find yourself whistling away on this tune as it plays in your head at all times of the day and night. You will find yourself singing it out loud as you drive through traffic. You will find yourself falling in love with this amazingly magical song. This could have been a lost, Hollies masterpiece - or even a lost Beatles classic! At times, it even sounds like an Oasis song. It sounds like you're right there. It was recorded magnificently by Larry Cox. Hats-off to you, brother! It may be even better than the released version. It's like you're sitting right there in front of Graham singing his heart out! You will feel your own heart beating as it feels the exhilaration of the thrilling excitement that arises during the choruses. What this song really is, is a waltz - a beautiful and graceful, flowing waltz, with soulful words. ... Come fly with Graham, and everyone sing along out loud during the choruses! Feel the beauty!
Track #8, Music Is Love, by David Crosby, Neil Young, and Graham Nash, is the only song on the album with Neil Young on it. That's okay. You can find plenty of Neil out-takes and rarities on his ARCHIVES box set just released on June 2nd of this year, 2009. This is a laid-back, "stoner-jam" of the kind we all used to do when we would get together in the evenings at the end of a long hard day, unwind, relax with some good friends, break out the instruments, and see what would happen. It reminds me of the kind of stuff we play when I get together with all of my Amherst musician friends. Though recorded in mono, the magic is all there. It's like a children's song, really. It's so nice to have this included here from David Crosby's recording sessions for his first solo album, the archetypal, If I Could Only Remember My Name - a community production with everyone on it who was cool at the time and in the magically musical zone that David shared with all of his friends, fellow travelers, and musical collaborators. You've got to hear that album if you never have. It will take you to a special place that few people know how to take you to. Thankfully for us, David Crosby is one of them. Neil's falsetto fits in perfectly here, and because this version is before they added more instruments through overdubs, you can hear what is here much better. ... It is the truth - music is LOVE.
Track #9, Singing Call, by Stephen stills, is a classic Stephen Stills song with that sort of southern style of singing and country & western style of "cowboy" finger-picking the guitar strings. When he's good, he's real good - and this song is a perfect example of when he's good. Stephen Stills could have made a great punk-rocker if he had been born a generation later, because he has that intense "angst" about him. But this is no punk-rock song. It sounds like a Buffalo Springfield, Poco, or Eagles out-take. Wait a minute! ... It sounds like what it is - a Crosby, Stills & Nash out-take. That's better.
Track #10, Long Time Gone, by David Crosby, is one of his political statement songs in the vein of For What It's Worth by his buddy and musical partner in this song, Stephen Stills. It sounds like a band playing live in the studio, but it's the studio magic of overdubbing different instruments at different times onto multi-track, analog, magnetic tape. Yeah, that's David Crosby singing and playing guitar, but that's also Stephen Stills on guitar, bass, and drums. Indeed! The question is, WHICH instrument did Stephen play when he was playing along with David at the same time, if he even did. Was it the bass guitar? It sounds like he overdubbed the drums later, but maybe not. ... This version has more of a funky feel to it. Get the groove on, guys! Yeah!
Track #11, Chicago, by Graham Nash, is another masterpiece by Graham Nash - lyrically and melodically. Wow! What a voice! Like John Lennon, he plays the piano percussively on this song, and it drives the beat home through the melody. Another political, anti-war song like many others from these songwriters, Chicago is a timeless classic even though it is very dated in its specific intent during the 1968 political upheavals that were taking place all over the world. ... This is the real Chicago. This ROCKS! Incredible. You've got to hear this! ... I once told a friend of mine that I believed every song should have at least three versions: a simple solo version (acoustic or electric), a band version recorded in a studio as a full production, either live-to-tape as is or with multiple overdubs, and a live version before an audience in a concert hall. They all have merit. This version of Chicago is the first type - as are most of the songs on this album - and it proves that you don't need a major, studio production to create a beautiful and powerful song that it a masterpiece. Also, like track #7, this song was also recorded by Larry Cox who captured Graham's voice and piano as transparently and sonically perfect as is probably possible.
Track #12, Love The One You're With, by Stephen Stills, is a great way to close this collection of long lost demos. Listen to those shimmering guitar chords! Listen to the passion in the man's voice! I really like this version better than the one on Stephen's first solo album. As I said already, I always thought that song - and whole album - was poorly mixed and overproduced. They should re-mix and re-master that record, especially so you can hear Jimi Hendrix's guitar better! Where's Russ Gary when you need him? Nevertheless, it is reassuring and comforting, as well as a pure joy, to now have this great version of this great song to listen to.
I fell in love with the music of Crosby, Stills & Nash when it first came out. I have all of their albums - with and without Neil Young - and I have to reassert that this one is right up there with the best of them. It is raw and live, and I am glad for it. Get it now!
... YOWZA! - George Koumantzelis / The Aeolian Kid
Demos Poster
This 12 song compilation of previously unreleased demos from 1968 to 1971 offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the earliest days of one of rock's most legendary partnerships. After four decades as 'three together', the creative partnership of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash is one of the most enduring and influential in contemporary music. This compilation of previously unreleased material takes an unprecedented look at the earliest days of their collaboration with 12 demos from 1968 to 1971-destined to be classic songs that would later be featured on CSN's studio albums and solo titles. While a number of demos feature members performing solo (and one finds them joined by Neil Young), the set opens with the trio harmonizing on 'Marrakesh Express', recorded four months before their self-titled debut LP was released in 1969.Classic Rock Music CDs
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