Latest Release
- 25 OCT 2024
- 17 Songs
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Greatest Hits · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
- Déjà Vu · 1970
Essential Albums
- The second album from the folk-rock era’s most successful supergroup (with Neil Young the added attraction), <I>Déjà Vu</I> reflects the sounds and sentiments of the times with a collective acumen, despite the group’s fragile ego balance. Graham Nash’s “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” express the idealistic and optimistic goals of the late ’60s, while David Crosby’s “Almost Cut My Hair” represents the paranoiac edge from which the drug scene dangled. Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” is given the definitive treatment, with scraping guitars and carefully constructed harmonies replacing her gentle piano figures. Stephen Stills’ influence is noticeably passive, contributing the album’s modest opener “Carry On” and the low-key acoustic “4 + 20”. Stills mostly serves the arrangements with tasteful guitar and harmonies. Neil Young, however, makes his presence felt, whether it’s coaxing stronger performances from Stills or contributing his own rough-hewn guitar lines to the bucolic bliss. “Helpless”, the album’s desolate, aching ballad, stands out, as do the underrated “Country Girl” suite and “Everybody I Love You”. This edition of <I>Déjà Vu</I> includes demos, outtakes and other alternate versions.
Music Videos
- 2021
- 2018
Artist Playlists
- Their uncompromising protest anthems and rustic folk rock defined the Woodstock era.
- The folk rockers turn up their bluesy guitars and add some synths.
- Their golden harmonies echo throughout rock, folk and country.
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About Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Neil Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in mid-1969, months after releasing his first album with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. ∙ Prior to inviting Young to join the band, Crosby, Stills & Nash approached Steve Winwood and The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian, but both had other commitments. ∙ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s second-ever live show took place in front of 400,000 people at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Festival. ∙ Nash wrote “Our House” in an hour, inspired by an outing with then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell. ∙ The quartet’s 1970 debut, Déjà Vu, was a critically acclaimed commercial smash, hitting No. 1 on the Pop charts and producing three Top 40 singles. ∙ Déjà Vu has sold 7 million copies—more than every other album released by the band’s members, either individually or with each other. ∙ Young wrote “Ohio” after seeing Life magazine photos of the 1970 shooting of four Kent State college students, and the band recorded the song that same week after only one day of rehearsals. ∙ Each member of Crosby, Stills Nash & Young is a two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, thanks to their solo careers or work with other bands.
- ORIGIN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1969
- GENRE
- Rock