The album earned the trio the 1970 Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1969. To date, Crosby, Stills, & Nash has sold over four million copies in the U.S. Dallas Taylor handled drums on the album, with future Derek & The Dominos member Jim Gordon sitting in for the "Marrakesh Express" session. Stephen Stills played the majority of the instruments on the album and served as the set's de-facto producer, although all three members were credited as co-producing the album, with Bill Halverson engineering at L.A.'s Wally Heider Studios.
All told, Crosby, Stills, & Nash spent 16 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. Stills' Springfield bandmate Neil Young did not appear on the album, but was on board as a full member by the time the group began performing live the following August.Īlthough the Crosby, Stills, & Nash album has never been far off FM radio over the decades and made instant superstars of the trio, the album only got as high as Number Six on the Billboard 200 albums chart and neither of the two singles pulled from the set cracked the Top 20 - with Nash's "Marrakesh Express" stalling at Number 28 and Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" peaking at Number 21. The supergroup, which formed the previous year, capped the decade and provided the blueprint for the 1970's laid back Laurel Canyon – Southern California sound, featuring David Crosby from the Byrds, Stephen Stills from the Buffalo Springfield, and Graham Nash from the Hollies. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.It was 54 years ago today - May 29th, 1969 - that the self-titled debut album by Crosby, Stills, & Nash was released. Photo of CSNY in concert (August '74) by Tony Morelli. You're gonna have to guess about that one.Īgree or disagree, we say this is the Essential Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and Sometimes Young) Playlist. Here's how: Grab the true essentials we can't live without ("Ohio," "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"), add in the now immovable elements of the pop canon ("Teach Your Children," "Our House"), sprinkle in a few personal favorites (because we can), and argue about the rest ("You included 'Wasted on the Way' but not 'Pre-Road Dawns'?!" "You're an idiot: 'Just a Song Before I Go' is not essential.") We even threw in a tune we figure will piss off even the most passing of passing fans. The entire Déjà Vu album could be included in an essential playlist and no one would bark about it (so we pretty much did). They created the template for pretty much every songwriter who's ever gotten his folk on (especially those who like to use alternate tunings). They provided the soundtrack to free love and fervent revolution. At the heart of the matter lays this question: What of the venerable CSN (and sometimes Y) catalog can't be considered essential? They revolutionized the way contemporary music was presented - verifiably the first supergroup in a long line of supergroups (many of which, these days, aren't so super).
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