Daylight Again

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Daylight Again
Daylight Again cover
Studio album by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Released June 21, 1982 (U.S.)
Genre Rock
Length 39:50
Label Atlantic
Producer(s) David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash
Professional reviews
Crosby, Stills, and Nash chronology
Replay
(1980)
Daylight Again
(1982)
Allies
(1983)


Daylight Again is a 1982 rock album by the band Crosby, Stills & Nash, their fourth of completely original material, and seventh in total. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, the final time the band has made the top ten to date. Three singles were released from the album, all making the Billboard Hot 100: "Wasted on the Way" peaked at #9, "Southern Cross" at #18, and "Too Much Love to Hide" at #69.

The genesis of the album lies in recordings made by Stephen Stills and Graham Nash at intervals in 1980 and 1981, the album slated to be a Stills-Nash project. They employed Art Garfunkel, Timothy B. Schmit, and others to sing in place of where David Crosby might have been. Executives at Atlantic Records, however, had little interest in anything but CSN product from any member of the group, and held out for the presence of Crosby, forcing Nash and Stills to start paying for the sessions out-of-pocket.[1] They began to turn toward the company's point of view, however, and decided to invite Crosby to participate at the eleventh hour. He brought two of his own tracks to the album, "Delta," where Stephen and Graham squeezed their vocals into David's already-taped multi-tracked harmonies, and "Might As Well Have A Good Time," which received the bona fide CSN treatment.[2] Most of the recording, however, features other voices in addition to the main trio, a first for any CSNY record, as is the number of outside writers. The song "Daylight Again" evolved out of Stills' guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the south in the Civil War, seguing into "Find the Cost of Freedom," which had been the b-side of the "Ohio" single in 1970.[3]

As the first album by the band in the video age, such were filmed to accompany the two lead singles, "Southern Cross," featuring the band and shots of one of their favorite metaphors, a sailing vessel, receiving a fair amount of rotation on MTV in 1982 and 1983.

The album has been released for compact disc on three occasions: on October 25, 1990; remastered using the original master tapes by Ocean View Digital and reissued on September 20, 1994; and again remastered using the HDCD process and reissued by Rhino Records on January 24, 2006, with four bonus tracks.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Turn Your Back on Love" (Stills, Nash, Michael Stergis) – 4:51
  2. "Wasted on the Way" (Nash) – 2:52
  3. "Southern Cross" (Stills, Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis) – 4:41
  4. "Into the Darkness" (Nash) – 3:23
  5. "Delta" (Crosby) – 4:15
  6. "Since I Met You" (Stills, Stergis) – 3:12
  7. "Too Much Love to Hide" (Stills, Gerry Tolman) – 3:58
  8. "Song for Susan" (Nash) – 3:08
  9. "You Are Alive" (Stills, Stergis) – 3:04
  10. "Might as Well Have a Good Time" (Lyrics by Judy Henske, Music by Craig Doerge) – 4:28
  11. "Daylight Again" (Stills) – 2:36

[edit] 2006 Remastered Edition Bonus Tracks

  1. "Raise A Voice" (Nash, Stills) – 2:34 (originally released on Allies)
  2. "Feel Your Love" (Stills, Nash) – 4:28
  3. "Tomorrow Is Another Day" (Stills) – 4:05
  4. "Might As Well Have A Good Time" (Henske, Doerge) – 4:15 (demo)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Steve Gursky – engineer
  • Stanley Johnston – engineer
  • Stephen Barncard – engineer
  • Jay Parti – assistant engineer
  • Gerry Lentz – assistant engineer
  • Russell Schmitt – assistant engineer
  • Gordon Rowley – assistant engineer
  • Jerry Hudgins – assistant engineer
  • Jimmy Wachtel – art direction
  • Mac James – design
  • Gilbert Williams – paintings
  • Mark Hanauer – photography
  • Henry Diltz – photography
  • Joe Gastwirt – digital remastering

[edit] Reference

  • Zimmer, Dave, and Diltz, Henry. Crosby Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (First edition), St. Martin’s Press, 1984. ISBN 0-312-17660-0

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Zimmer and Diltz, p. 226
  2. ^ Zimmer and Diltz, p. 228
  3. ^ Zimmer and Diltz, op.cit.
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Discography
Crosby, Stills & Nash | Déjà Vu | Four Way Street | So Far | CSN | Replay | Daylight Again | Allies |
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Just a Song Before I Go | Southern Cross
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