Sold Date: August 19, 2021
Start Date: June 5, 2021
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Crosby Stills & Nash Self-Titled Vinyl LP - Atlantic SD-8229  VG++ First Edition with Lyric Sheet 1969
Condition: VG+ Vinyl and VG++ Cover. Excellent copy, original gatefold cover and original Atlantic inner sleeve with separate lyric sheet insert.
Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hit singles, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", which peaked respectively at No. 28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at No. 21 the week of December 6, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It has been certified four times platinum by the RIAA for sales of 4,000,000.
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 respect for the group within the industry and galvanized interest in signing similar acts. 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 1970s. Their use 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.
Track listing
Side one 1."Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"Stephen StillsStills7:25 2."Marrakesh Express"Graham NashNash2:39 3."Guinnevere"David CrosbyCrosby with Nash4:40 4."You Don't Have to Cry"Stephen StillsStills with Crosby & Nash2:45 5."Pre-Road Downs"Graham NashNash2:56
Side two 1."Wooden Ships"David Crosby, Paul Kantner, Stephen StillsCrosby with Stills5:29 2."Lady of the Island"Graham NashNash2:39 3."Helplessly Hoping"Stephen StillsStills with Crosby & Nash2:41 4."Long Time Gone"David CrosbyCrosby with Stills4:17 5."49 Bye-Byes"Stephen StillsStills5:16
Personnel David Crosby – vocals; guitars on "Guinnevere"; rhythm guitar on "Wooden Ships" and "Long Time Gone" Stephen Stills – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion all tracks except "Guinnevere" and "Lady of the Island" Graham Nash – vocals; rhythm guitar on "Marrakesh Express" and "Pre-Road Downs"; acoustic guitar on "Lady of the Island"
Additional personnel Dallas Taylor – drums on "Pre-Road Downs," "Wooden Ships," "Long Time Gone," and "49 Bye-Byes" Jim Gordon – drums on "Marrakesh Express" Cass Elliot – backing vocals on "Pre-Road Downs"
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