Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)

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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Released	May 29, 1969
Recorded	June 26, 1968 - April 3, 1969
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	40:52
Label	Atlantic
Producer(s)	Bill Halverson David Crosby Graham Nash Stephen Stills
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link The Music Box Jan. '06
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology
	Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)	Déjà Vu (1970)

Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album released by Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

The album was a very strong debut for the band, instantly lifting them to stardom. Along with the Band's Music From Big Pink of the previous year, it helped initiate a sea change in popular music away from the ruling late sixties aesthetic of bands playing blues based rock music on loud guitars. Crosby, Stills & Nash presented a new wrinkle in building upon rock's roots, utilizing folk, blues, and even jazz without specifically sounding like mere duplication. Not only blending voices, the three meshed their differing strengths, Crosby for social commentary and atmospheric mood pieces, Stills for his diverse musical skills and for folding folk and country elements subtly into complex rock structures, and Nash his knack for radio-friendly pop melody, to create an amalgam of broad appeal. Eventually going multi-platinum, in addition to the abovementioned singles, Crosby, Stills & Nash features some of their best known songs in "Wooden Ships" and "Helplessly Hoping." "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" was composed for Judy Collins, and "Long Time Gone" was a response to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

This album proved very influential on many levels to the dominant popular music scene in America for much of the 1970s. The success of the album generated gravitas for the group within the industry, and galvanized interest in signing like acts, many of whom came under management and representation by the CSN team of Elliot Roberts and David Geffen. Strong sales, combined with the group's emphasis on personal confession in its writing, paved the way for the success of the singer-songwriter movement of the early seventies. Their utilization of personal events in their material without resorting to subterfuge, their talents in vocal harmony, their cultivation of painstaking studio craft, as well as the Laurel Canyon ethos that surrounded the group and their associates, established an aesthetic for a number of acts that came to define the "California" sound of the ensuing decade, including The Eagles, Jackson Browne, post-1974 Fleetwood Mac, and others.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The album has been re-released for compact disc three times: on October 25, 1990; remastered by Ocean View Digital using the original master tapes and reissued on August 16, 1994; reissued again by Rhino Records as an expanded edition using the HDCD process on January 24, 2006.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 2006 Expanded Edition 2.1 Miscellanea 3 Personnel 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stills) – 7:25
2. "Marrakesh Express" (Nash) – 2:39
3. "Guinnevere" (Crosby) – 4:40
4. "You Don't Have to Cry" (Stills) – 2:45
5. "Pre-Road Downs" (Nash) – 3:01
6. "Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Stills) – 5:29
7. "Lady of the Island" (Nash) – 2:39
8. "Helplessly Hoping" (Stills) – 2:41
9. "Long Time Gone" (Crosby) – 4:17
10. "49 Bye-Byes" (Stills) – 5:16

[edit] 2006 Expanded Edition

1. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stills) – 7:24
2. "Marrakesh Express" (Nash) – 2:38
3. "Guinnevere" (Crosby) – 4:39
4. "You Don't Have to Cry" (Stills) – 2:44
5. "Pre-Road Downs" (Nash) – 2:57
6. "Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Paul Kantner, Stills) – 5:27
7. "Lady of the Island" (Nash) – 2:38
8. "Helplessly Hoping" (Stills) – 2:41
9. "Long Time Gone" (Crosby) – 4:17
10. "49 Bye-Byes" (Stills) – 5:12
11. "Do for the Others" (Stills) – 2:49
12. "Song with No Words (New Remix)" (Crosby) – 3:18
13. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 3:14
14. "Teach Your Children" (Nash) – 3:14

[edit] Miscellanea

• The 2006 expanded edition of the CD features an additional four tracks, as well as a slight difference in the cover art. The face of drummer Dallas Taylor was added to the original as he was not present at the photoshoot. He can be seen looking through the window of the door on the rear of the sleeve. In the expanded edition, however, he is absent.
• Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner was finally credited as co-composer of "Wooden Ships" on the expanded edition, something long-acknowledged on his group's version of the song from their Volunteers album, released the same year.
• David Crosby singing an excerpt of "Come On In My Kitchen" at the end of "Long Time Gone" on the original release was left off at the request of the late Robert Johnson's family.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Personnel

Crosby, Stills & Nash

• David Crosby: Rhythm guitars, vocals.
• Stephen Stills: Guitars, bass guitar, organ, vocals.
• Graham Nash: Vocals, acoustic guitar (on "Lady Of The Island" & "Marrakesh Express").
• Dallas Taylor: Drums, percussion.

Additional Personnel

• Bill Halverson - engineer
• Gary Burden – art direction, design
• Henry Diltz – photography
• David Geffen – direction
• Ahmet Ertegun – spiritual guidance
• Joe Gastwirt – digital remastering
• Raymond Foye – liner notes, 2006 reissue

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1969	Black Albums	35
1969	Pop Albums	6

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1969	"Marrakesh Express"	Pop Singles	28
1969	"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"	Pop Singles	21

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby | Stephen Stills | Graham Nash | Neil Young
Discography
Crosby, Stills & Nash | Déjà Vu | Four Way Street | So Far | CSN | Replay | Daylight Again | Allies | American Dream | Live It Up | CSN (box set) | After The Storm | Carry On | Looking Forward | Greatest Hits
Songs
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes | Marrakesh Express | Wooden Ships | Woodstock | Helpless | Ohio | Just a Song Before I Go | Southern Cross
Other related bands
The Byrds | Buffalo Springfield | The Hollies | CPR | Crosby & Nash | The Stills-Young Band | Manassas | Crazy Horse
Other related people
Joni Mitchell | Judy Collins | Chris Hillman | Cass Elliot | Timothy B. Schmit