Crosby, Stills, Nash

[Analogman]

I met two kind people on the road

I was parched and dry from the cold

 

I've been a'traveling four days and nights, sir

and I do want to thank you for the ride, sir

and the soup your wife made tasted fine

 

If it's all the same, I'll be on my way at the next turn

and I

[LouieB]

I used to have a roommate who's band played that song.....

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

Powerful song - I was listening to the demo off of the Buffalo Springfield boxset. The song would have still been relevant then - I hope it does not become again. Although, maybe it has.

[froggie]

> Been listening to donovan,s sutras, recorded with rick rubin lately, some beautiful tunes on there.

 

i love Please don't bend, from that album

[Analogman]

NPR Album Stream Link

 

NPR.org, May 22, 2009 - To fully grasp why David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were so well loved when they made their debut at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in 1969, it's worth keeping in mind that there was a lot of chaos in the music and in the culture. Those three voices blended so well that they were a breath of fresh air; calming and grounding and wonderfully timed.

 

A new collection on Rhino Records, titled Demos, puts together a series of demo recordings of mostly solo songs by David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, plus a track with Neil Young. You can listen to the album here, in its entirety, beginning at 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, May 25.

 

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH'S UNRELEASED DEMOS

The Legendary Group Kicks Off A Summer Tour with The Release Of A Collection Of Group And Solo Demos, Including Early Versions Of "Marrakesh Express," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Long Time Gone" And "Love The One You're With"

 

Album Available from Rhino June 2

 

March 26 2009

LOS ANGELES --

 

As members of one of rock's first supergroups, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash helped define the Woodstock generation through their peerless harmonies, resonant songwriting and deep commitment to political and social causes. The trio will tour this summer in both the U.S. and Europe, with more dates to be added to the U.S. leg. In between the late-spring North American and early summer European segments of the tour, Crosby, Stills & Nash will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 18 in New York City, and before the tour begins, Rhino will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the group's early days with a collection of 12 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1968 and 1971.

 

While many tracks on CROSBY, STILLS & NASH DEMOS feature members performing solo, the opening cut includes all three harmonizing on the Nash-penned hit "Marrakesh Express," recorded four months before the release of the trio's eponymous debut in 1969. Crosby and Stills can be heard on another song from that blockbuster album, "Long Time Gone." The two recorded the demo in June 1968, just a few weeks before Nash joined the group.

 

Neil Young, whose arrival in 1969 launched CSN&Y, performs with Crosby and Nash on "Music Is Love," a song the three cowrote that appeared on Crosby's 1971 solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name. Crosby flies his "freak flag" alone on the anthemic "Almost Cut My Hair," a track featured on the group's 1970 #1 album Deja Vu. Stills performs unaccompanied on a 1968 demo of "My Love Is A Gentle Thing." Recorded in 1968, the song was never released on a studio album, although a 1975 recording of the track did surface in 1991 on the boxed set CSN.

 

More than half of CROSBY, STILLS & NASH DEMOS comprises early versions of songs destined for solo projects that each member focused on following the success of Deja Vu. Stills released his self-titled debut in 1970, which introduced "Love The One You're With," his biggest solo hit to-date and a live favorite. Stills recorded this version in April 1970, more than six months before recording the album version in London. Another Stills demo, "Singing Call," features a song that would appear on his follow-up, Stephen Stills 2.

 

Nearly all of the tracks on CROSBY, STILLS & NASH DEMOS were recorded at Wally Heider studios, a popular recording destination on the West Coast for everyone from Jefferson Airplane to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Nash chose Heider's studio to record his 1971 solo debut, Songs For Beginners, demoing much of the album there as well. This collection includes three of those demos: "Sleep Song," "Be Yourself," and the politically charged "Chicago." For more information on Crosby, Stills & Nash and for updated tour information, please visit www.crosbystillsnash.com.

 

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH DEMOS

Track Listing

 

1. "Marrakesh Express"

2. "Almost Cut My Hair"

3. "You Don't Have To Cry"

4. "Deja Vu"

5. "Sleep Song"

6. "My Love Is A Gentle Thing"

7. "Be Yourself"

8. "Music Is Love"

9. "Singing Call"

10. "Long Time Gone"

11. "Chicago"

12. "Love The One You're With"

[Vacant Horizon]

these guys have gotten so much mileage out of so few songs. amazing.

 

also, the fact that this is being released prolly means the cover record is a no go. i'm also amazed these guys tour anymore. i mean, stephen stills cannot sing. its that simple.

[Analogman]

Crosby, Stills And Nash Dust Off Demos

Crosby Still & Nash Ready "Demos" album.

March 30, 2009 02:58 PM ET

Gary Graff, Detroit

 

"Demos" is the latest result from a spate of vault trolling that's produced box sets for Crosby and Nash, a demos collection from Stills and expanded editions of "If I Could Only Remember My Name" and "Songs For Beginners." Stills is currently working on his box set, while CSN is recording an album of covers that's being supervised by Rick Rubin.

 

It's still on as of the date the above was posted at Billboard. Personally, I wish this whole "old bands" doing covers albums would go away. I suppose it will interesting if they have actually recorded the album together, instead of each one adding their parts and then mixing them together. I suppose Rick would not let them get away with that. I would rather see them do an acoustic album of new songs.

[ThisIsNowhere]

I'd like to see a live album from the '74 tour that was mentioned in the first post.

[Analogman]

I'd like to hear the Stills/Hendrix tracks.

[ThisIsNowhere]

And that too, of course. These demos are nice though.

[Analogman]

I saw the cd in a record store in Pittsburgh the other day. I was on a mission to get the rest of the T.Rex cds I don't have. They didn't have those, but I was able to snag the Box Tops cds that Amazon has been unable to get me. I started to grab the CSN disc, but I had already spent what I had. I think I may pick it up at some point though.