Crosby Stills & Nash Renaissance Fare LP 1969 New Zealand original flipback

 

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Original NZ pressing on Atlantic, in laminated flipback sleeve.

 

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on music and culture. All four members of CSNY have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, though Young's multiple inductions were for work not involving the group.

 

The album was a very strong debut for the band, instantly lifting them to stardom. Along with the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo and 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 for his radio-friendly pop melodies, 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.

 

 

Side one

"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stills) – 7:25 Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, bass, percussion; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums "Marrakesh Express" (Nash) – 2:39 Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, organ, piano, bass; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals, acoustic guitar; Jim Gordon-drums "Guinnevere" (Crosby) – 4:40 David Crosby-vocals, guitar; Graham Nash-vocals "You Don't Have to Cry" (Stills) – 2:45 "Pre-Road Downs" (Nash) – 3:01

Side two

"Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Stills, Paul Kantner [uncredited]) – 5:29 Stephen Stills-vocals, lead guitar, bass, organ; David Crosby-vocals, rhythm guitar; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums "Lady of the Island" (Nash) – 2:39 David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals, acoustic guitar "Helplessly Hoping" (Stills) – 2:41 Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals "Long Time Gone" (Crosby) – 4:17 Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, bass, organ; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums "49 Bye-Byes" (Stills) – 5:16

 

 

CONDITION:

 

FLIPBACK SLEEVE:  EX+  Some handling evident, no tears or scuffs; small edge chip centre top; laminate is A-1

 

RECORD:  EX+ Plays beautifully, crisp sound

 

 

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