Stephen Stills - Just Roll Tape: April 26, 1968
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Artist: Stephen StillsBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- All I Know is What You Tell Me
- So Begins the Task
- Change Partners
- Know You Got To Run
- The Doctor Will See You Now
- Black Queen
- Bumblebee (Do You Need A Place to Hide?)
- Judy
- Dreaming of Snakes
- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
- Helplessly Hoping
- Wooden Ships
- Treetop Flyer
Free Music Notes for Just Roll Tape: April 26, 1968
Free Music Review: Can't Add That Much, but...
Hit: 5 Stars
Stephen Stills is a great musician, among the greatest of his generation, certainly, and a creator or collaborator on some of the twentieth century's most memorable and profound popular music. This slice of life album, apparently recorded live in 1968, contains some of his most memorable songs in a very pristine state, that of the "rough draft" or first revision, if he was writing fiction. I find his work on "So Begins the Task" extremely compelling, and much better in its folk form here, than when the more polished Manassas "country" version, complete with steel guitar, appears on that album. Immediacy is the issue with great folk music, gospel, and soul music, as well as the blues, and this music is as compelling and immediate as Buddy Guy's and Junior Wells' (Hoodoo Man Blues) efforts, or some of Bob Dylan's first three or four albums (or his last three or four, come to think of it). Songs like "Judy" and "All I Know Is What You Tell Me" are as good in their own way as anything Stills ever did, and the humor present in the former is all too welcome, contrasted with the love-smitten OTP deadly seriousness of the latter. And, speaking of which, the "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" here, played and sung solo, is quite an achievement, for all its roughness. In their turn, "Helplessly Hoping", "Change Partners", and "Wooden Ships" are all remarkable in that they show just how much of these songs was always Stills, himself, and how little in the way of refinements and elaboration can be added to something that is already a masterpiece. And I must say that, as far as their other achievements may attest to the contrary, Stills' partners in these ventures, such as Paul Kantner, Chris Hillman, Graham Nash and David Crosby, are nowehere near the same calibre of complete musician as Stills. Crosby and Nash didn't call him "Captain Many-Hands" because he was good at rolling joints, after all. FInally, "Know You've Got To Run" tells us everything we need to know about Stills' clash with Neil Young; if what Stills says here is true (and it probably is) Randy California was probably right to throw Young off the stage when he showed up drunk at Spirit's reunion concert. We're all glad you got the program, Neil. So this album is, as others have said, a tremendous revelation, and the one or two reviewers who have stated ah, shucks, it ain't that great, well...perhaps they should stick their heads in a bucket. This is well worth the money, if you would enjoy having a young superstar at the peak of his power sitting in your living room just pickin and singin for 40 minutes or so. I know I do, and also, this album has taught me a little more about playing the guitar as well. Why not learn from the master?
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Just Roll Tape: April 26, 1968 Poster
Stephen Stills found himself in a New York recording studio, laid down a few hundred dollars, told the engineer to roll tape, and this collection of songs is what came about. Finally remastered and released to the public, this album shows the beginnings of Crosby, Still, and Nash.The title and cover art effectively tell the story of this dusty gem. Captured fly-on-the-wall style in an impromptu live-in-the-studio burst after a Judy Collins session on which the 23-year-old Stephen Stills played, the soon-to-be ex-leader of Buffalo Springfield (and Collins's ex-boyfriend) unleashes unplugged, occasionally incomplete versions of songs he had recently written and wanted to get on tape. Discovered in 1978 and nearly discarded, the reels found their way to Graham Nash in 2003, who encouraged Stills to release them. He finally did so in 2007, nearly 40 years after the original session, and the result is the most revelatory album in Stills's bulging catalog. Even with remastering, the sound is on the crude side. Nevertheless, early takes of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Helplessly Hoping," and "Wooden Ships," all of which would appear in far more polished versions on Crosby, Stills & Nash's self-titled debut, are sung with a passion and honesty seldom exposed by the singer/songwriter. Stills's voice sometimes cracks, his guitar work intermittently sounds muddy, and these are definitely works in progress, some of which never appeared on an official release. Yet the artist is caught arguably at the peak of his substantial talents, laying down soon-to-be-classic melodies while they were fresh in his head. Folk/rock historians and Stills fans will surely be thrilled with this nascent, unvarnished set. Though Just Roll Tape may be too raw for some, it finds Stills at the crucial stage right before superstardom changed his--and popular music's--future forever. --Hal Horowitz
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