Crosby Stills Nash

Crosby Stills Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released 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 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.
The album has been issued on compact disc three times: mastered by Barry Diament at Atlantic Studios in the mid-1980s[4]; remastered by Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Digital and reissued on August 16, 1994; reissued again by Rhino Records as an expanded edition using the HDCD process on January 24, 2006.

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[cagard]

Beautiful song. Something about the songs you pick. It touches a spot inside.

All the lonely people and I am one of them. Coming out of addiction, having led a life of fear doubt and insecurity and having so many character defects. Your songs bring up such strong feel. I so respect the love I see in you and your musical comrades. Thank you so much. Cindy

[JeimusuJones]

@cagard Thanks so much for your heat felt comments Cindy. :)

[UncleQuinn]

Is that Graham Nash on guitar?

[JeimusuJones]

@UncleQuinn ... Yes.  Yes it is.

[ApollosPlace]

@cagard Keep on keeping on Cindy. It's a hard battle from addiction no matter the substance. :)

[Isinglasstoday]

God! You guys are good! I hate covers! But you're good! Thanks~

[exposingdeceit]

best cover i've seen! :)

[Cathye3]

Love your harmony, awesome !!!

[magicwoman116]

This cover is fabulous! Harmony and guitars are perfect. Great job! I really enjoyed this rendition, just wonderful! I subbed you a while back. Great ending! Thank you so much for the share, Cheri........5*****

[unplugged65]

Nice job with a great song.

[zjmn58]

Beautiful harmony!! Thumbs up!! Great job guys!! : )

[rosecigar]

you know what.

i wish i can play music forever with my friends like you all!

wonderful!!