20/05/2024
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young scored the # 1 album in America this day in 1970. As you will hear during this IN THE STUDIO episode regarding the making of Déjà Vu, rock myth collides head-on with fact regarding Neil Young’s initial integration into Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Young was two years and two albums into a budding solo career after leaving Buffalo Springfield when former bandmate Stephen Stills, ex-Byrd David Crosby, and Graham Nash from the Hollies all realized that the three of them could not pull off the song arrangements live that were on their 1969 debut album. So Young was recruited for the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash tour, not a permanent member of the band. After Neil Young sat in at the trio’s second gig, some people noticed. The fact that the gig was the Woodstock Festival in 1969 might have had something to do with it. Deja Vu contained Stephen’s “Carry On”, the definitive version of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock”, Graham’s “Our House” and “Teach Your Children”, David’s “Almost Cut My Hair”, and Neil’s “Helpless”. Young contributed only two songs, no doubt saving even stronger material for his own third solo album After the Goldrush barely five months later. David, Stephen, Graham, and Neil all weigh in for the album Deja Vu as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. https://bit.ly/3VdfcNj
