Album
CSN
1977 · Rock
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CSN is a Rock album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, originally released in 1977. On Gatefold: 125 pressings tracked, owned by 51 collectors.
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this great album came out in 1977. the lead off single was ''just a song before i go'' written and sung by graham nash. a nice harmonic poignant song. once you dig deeper into the album you found tracks like graham's account of an acid trip in ''cathedral." the standout track is one of the best songs ever written in my opinion, stephen still's beautiful ''dark star''. he also sang the radio hit ''fair game'' which with it's risque lyric probably wouldn't be played today. nash wrote a beautiful rousing sparse ballad ''carried away''. crosby had two of his best in "shadow captain" and "in my dreams". all through the album their beautiful harmonies are there and it brought back a very important group that had been away for a few years as a combo in a magnificent way. it went to no.2 on the chart as fleetwood mac's rumors was no.1. it sold over 4 million copies, becoming CSN's best selling album (roughly 4,200,000+) and outsold any CSNY work at that point outside of Deja Vu (8,050,000+) or Harvest (5,750,000+).
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Shadow Captain4:32
- A2See The Changes2:56
- A3Carried Away2:29
- A4Fair Game3:30
- A5Anything At All3:01
- A6Cathedral5:15
Side B
- B1Dark Star4:43
- B2Just A Song Before I Go2:12
- B3Run From Tears4:09
- B4Cold Rain2:32
- B5In My Dreams5:10
- B6I Give You Give Blind3:21
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Soft Rock
- warm
- wistful
- pastoral
CSN is a Crosby, Stills & Nash album released in 1977, the fifth album by the group, and the first without Neil Young since his entry into the band. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; two singles taken from the album, Nash's "Just A Song Before I Go" and Stills' "Fair Game" peaked at #7 and #43 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the interim since their last studio album of original material (1970's Déjà Vu), Crosby and Nash had recorded three albums as a duo. Stills pursued other projects, including a short career with Manassas and an album and tour with Young.
CSN featured strong writing from all three members, the last time for seventeen years that the band would compose songs and handle vocals without major assistance from outside sources. The production of the album fit in well with the ruling aesthetic of the time as featured in other blockbusters such as the Eagles' Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours: well-crafted, melodic songs played with precision and balance, essaying the personal travails of the authors.
Many of Stills' songs on the album echo his marital problems, with "Dark Star" returning to the Latin rhythms he had favored all the way back to his Buffalo Springfield days. Crosby continued the existential probings consistent with much of his past work, and Nash offered a very stringent critique of Christianity with "Cathedral". Many tracks were sweetened with a string section, a first on a CSNY project.
Joel Bernstein photographed the trio in serious poses aboard a boat, and initial copies of CSN bore that picture on the cover. The next picture Bernstein took of Crosby, Stills and Nash was a shot of them breaking into laughter at the thought of just having posed as "serious artists." The trio later decided that they liked the second photo better, and it was decided that all future pressings of CSN should bear the "laughter" photo.
The album was released for compact disc on October 25, 1990, and then remastered at Ocean View Digital from the original tapes and reissued on September 20, 1994.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Crosby, Stills & NashVOCALS
- David CrosbyVOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR, WORDS BY, MUSIC BY
- George "Chocolate" PerryBASS
- Graham NashVOCALS ARRANGED BY HARMONICA
- Joe VitaleDRUMS ORGAN DRUMS, CONGAS
- Russ KunkelDRUMS CONGAS DRUMS, CONGAS
- Stephen StillsELECTRIC GUITAR VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Craig DoergeELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO, PIANO MUSIC BY, PIANO , ELECTRIC PIANO
- Crosby & NashARRANGED BY
- Gerald JohnsonBASS
- Jimmy HaslipBASS
- Joel BernsteinARRANGED BY
- Mike FinniganORGAN
- Mike LewisARRANGED BY
- Ray BarrettoCONGAS
- Tim DrummondBASS
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