https://fanstudy.byspotify.com

There is more information on this page and in its links than you can devour and comprehend in one sitting, but you should dive in.

All the conversation re Spotify has been about payouts. That ship has sailed, now it’s about building your audience so that it will speed up and enhance the flywheel of your career. In other words, recorded music streaming is only one income stream, please view it that way.

So the story is always about the Spotify Top 50 and the major labels who parade their wares there. But the truth is never have the major labels had less control over the music landscape, furthermore never have hit artists had less purchase in the landscape, the data shows us this, and you might want to ignore the data re your personal beliefs on political issues, but do you really want to sacrifice the insights when it comes to your own career?

If you’re an artist you need to digest this information, you must read it and know it, because now you are your own record label. Don’t dream of getting signed, chances are that’s the worst thing that can happen to your career. If you make pop or hip-hop that populates the aforementioned Spotify Top 50, go for it, try to get the big deal, but if you don’t, don’t even bother, as Fleetwood Mac sings, it’s time to go your own way.

Sure, you can hand the responsibility to a third party. But chances are they can’t deliver more than you can yourself, and they’re going to take a huge slice, for probably no results, don’t get sucked into the indie label game. But do get sucked into the indie mind-set.

Yesterday Lollapalooza revealed its lineup. There aren’t many superstars and the truth is there are other festivals that are genre specific that do extremely well. The nineties paradigm is kaput. You know, the one in which you try to get exposure to become world dominant, where you need  a deep pocket for videos and getting on MTV is everything. There is no center in music, no glue, except for maybe the streaming platforms themselves, and the truth is Spotify dominates and it skews young, it’s where careers are built and expanded. Sure, be on all of the outlets, but Apple skews old and the subscribers listen less and…Amazon is a black hole proffering little information, but don’t count it out, the pricing is just too intriguing, everybody’s got a Prime account, so music is burgeoning there.

But Spotify is a music only company (well, podcasts too…let’s just call it an audio-only company) and therefore it has to double-down and superserve. And if you follow the link above you will find out what works with your fanbase. When to release new music, how it affects catalog, what kind of merch they prefer…and how to make a canvas and how to pitch your music and the truth is if you’re complaining, you’re missing the point, this is how Soundcloud built hip-hop into the juggernaut it is. Turned out giving it away for free was good business. And now, knowing how to use the Spotify tools is good business.

Really, it’s best if the artist him or herself dives deep and comprehends all this information. Once you hand off responsibility something is lost in the process. There’s no phone help on the internet, you’ve got to figure out solutions to your problems yourself, why do you expect it to be any different in music? Sure, if you have a best friend or a manager empower them. But Spotify’s fan/artist information is the complement to Don Passman’s book. Sure, you know the law, you know how not to get screwed, but do you know how to build your career?

Don’t look at it from top down, but bottom up. Don’t compare yourself to Billie Eilish or the Weeknd, don’t get frustrated that your numbers are so low, instead focus on the build…are your numbers going up and what can you do to make them increase? And the truth is spamming everybody does not work, you’ve got to superserve the fans you’ve got, they are the best spreaders of your music, you’ve got to keep them interested, you’ve got to empower them.

Music is in the doldrums.

It was revolutionized in 1964 by the Beatles and the ensuing British Invasion.

Then in the late sixties and early seventies we had FM radio which engendered album rock.

And then in 1981 we had MTV.

And in 1999/2000, we had Napster.

Spotify is over a decade old now, we learned that those who embrace new tools win. But we haven’t yet had the artist who demands those not paying attention do.

Yes, we had the Beatles and British Invasion.

FM brought Jimi Hendrix and Cream and…

MTV brought Culture Club and Duran Duran…

We’ve yet to have the Spotify hit, the breakthrough that is completely different from what came before, which gets everybody interested.

It happens in all media.

In television, it was “The Sopranos” in 1999. A series rejected by network that was better than any movie. And thereafter we got more and more innovative cable shows, Sunday night was for HBO, and then Reed Hastings came along and took Netflix streaming and funded “House of Cards” and we truly hit the golden age of television, it’s the entertainment medium everybody wants to talk about, people will ask you what shows you’ve been watching before they’ll ask what music you’ve been listening to.

So we’re waiting for that new sound.

And you might have it. But now there are no barriers to entry. Sure, you could get lost in the morass of the 60,000 tracks added every day to Spotify, but almost all of them are marginal, made by hobbyists, maybe delusional hobbyists, but they will get no traction. The truth is almost nothing will get traction, but we are looking for the new and different and excellent and…

You can make it cheaply with digital tools.

You can promote it for free via social media.

And now Spotify is helping you build your career and track the engagement!

And the truth is it’s the least verbal artist who is questioning whether they can make it who blazes the trail, usually someone who has paid dues, been kicking around, with minefields in their past. They’ve taken time to see what works and what does not, they’ve honed their craft, and they know it’s about the individual statement.

No one will be as dominant as the Beatles, or even Madonna, ever again, can’t ever happen. But there is room for acts that have big impact, that start a movement. If you’re in it for the money, stop right away, right away, there is just not that much money in music, and odds are you’ll never make it. If you want money, work for the corporation, get a steady paycheck. If you want to go down the road less taken, if you are willing to starve, if you’re unwilling to complain, if you must do the work believing in yourself…maybe you’re what we need. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that just because you have self-confidence you can make it. No, you must look at the data, see if the trend is upward, if not, the problem is you. Yes, the truth is if you’re great there will be action, there’s so little great out there. And then you have to build on that action.

You’ve got all the tools, we’re dying for you to change our world…please change our world!

Shelly Banjo, Bloomberg’s New York Bureau Chief, is the #1 expert on TikTok. Here we cover the company’s birth, its algorithm, how music is picked and used, record companies’ involvement, how much money creators make…TikTok is where hits start today, you need to listen to this!

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Relationships are hard.

I found out about this show in “The Week,” it’s my favorite magazine, even if I do subscribe to so many of the publications they quote. It’s what “Time” and “Newsweek” used to be, but sans editorializing, it’s almost entirely a compilation of news from other sources. And it’s expensive. But you could subscribe…and give up other news completely and be more up to speed than most people.

But really, I get it for the arts info. They recommend books and movies and music and TV and a couple of weeks back they listed the best Israeli TV shows, and there was only one I hadn’t seen, “The Attaché.”

Israel…they’re winning the battle, but losing the war.

Everybody hates the Jews, and now they’ve finally got a vessel to express themselves, the Palestinians. And I’m not gonna change your opinion, I’m not even gonna try, because you just can’t do that these days. I’d point you to great pieces by Bret Stephens and Tom Friedman in the “New York Times,” but I’m sure you’ve got ammunition saying otherwise. And Israel is flawed, and Netanyahu has to go, but the truth is the Arab world wants Israel to go completely, never forget that. Or maybe you’re happy about that.

So Israeli TV, pound for pound, is the best programming out there. Even if you’re not Jewish. It’s realistic. Genuine. And ultimately it’s not about action so much as personal relationships, even when there is action, it all comes down to the people involved, like in “Valley of Tears.”

So “The Attaché” is about a drummer. Who’s married to a Parisian who moved to Israel. And she’s gotten a gig as an attaché in the Israeli embassy in Paris for a year, so the family moves there.

And…

She’s got a big, all-consuming job, and he’s nowhere. He’s a star in Israel, but nobody in Paris. Or as James Taylor put it so eloquently in “Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream”: “Up here I’m just a whisky bum but down there I’m a king.”

And Avshalom speaks Hebrew, and English, but he doesn’t speak French, so he finds it hard to communicate. The truth is many more French people speak English than they used to. I went skiing there in 1971 and I might as well have been in Japan, there was a wall between me and the locals, but when I repeated the trip ten years ago, almost everybody spoke English, it was not an issue.

But speaking of issues… If you’ve been following what has been going on in France, which I don’t think most Americans have, they’re too self-centered, it’s a hotbed of anti-Semitism, and terror. Muslim vs… There doesn’t seem to be a fix. And this show starts off with the Bataclan explosion, you remember, the nightclub disaster back in 2015. I was on a Summit Series ship, I was clueless, but then they announced it from the stage and it was eerie, to be out at sea with so much happening back on land.

So, if you’re Jewish in Paris. Or even Muslim… You’re terrified. And this is how the series starts out, and the theme returns, but really, you could scratch all the Israeli/Arab/Paris material completely, set this same show in America and…it would be just as haunting. Hell, maybe they’re going to remake it in America, they oftentimes do, it would be easy, you’re a couple living in New York City and your spouse gets a job for a year in Los Angeles, and she very much wants the gig. Do you go with her? You’ve got to sacrifice your work, but you want to keep the family together.

But when you arrive, when you’re actually there, your spouse is integrated and happy and you’re solo all day and resentful and…

Relationships can end in an instant. Something can be said and then it’s all over, the other person just can’t get over it. And small choices are critical. Do you reach in after the dissension, or do you pull away?

These are Jews, these are verbal people, they don’t hold their feelings in…well, actually in this show they do to a degree, but the truth ultimately outs and then what?

You’re rolling along, you think everything is hunky-dory and then one day…your spouse says something completely unexpected, you thought you were on the same page but it turns out you’re not. Where do you go from there? You could say nothing, but that never works, that’s a recipe for death. You’ve got to give your viewpoint, you’ve got to argue, but that does not mean there’s an equitable solution.

Everybody only gets one life to live. And most people are not eager to compromise. On the little things maybe, but on the dream? Isn’t that Marlon Brando’s most famous line, “I coulda been a contender!” You don’t want to quash someone’s dream.

Situations change. Always. Can you adjust?

But if you don’t completely cave, if you put forth your opinion, somewhere in the arguments that are now coming more frequently you realize…this could be the end.

It’s a sinking feeling. You nearly go numb. You can’t work, you can’t eat… You don’t want to believe it, but here you are. You want to hold back the hands of time, you want your partner to be who they used to be, but they’re not. Doesn’t matter what they promised you, that was then and this is now.

So do you hold on tighter?

Amazingly, that doesn’t work at all. The other person considers you clingy and subservient and this makes them feel pulling away is right.

And the truth is ever since the introduction of the pill back in the sixties, divorce has been rampant. And some divorces are necessary, but the concept of hanging in there, working it out, the commitment being paramount? That’s not embraced to the degree it used to be.

Commitment. It’s the essence of a relationship. Bedrock. Commitment can supersede any problem, assuming it’s not drugs or physical violence. And there’s always a way to work it out, but someone is gonna sacrifice, someone is gonna suffer.

Or you could get divorced. But you almost always wake up later missing what you had. The new person is attractive and funny but after a few weeks or months you realize they’re just not your ex. But once the rupture has happened, it’s almost always too late to get back together.

And one person is not always reasonable. You can be, but they can’t see your viewpoint, they don’t want to compromise and then what? I don’t know, I really don’t.

And if Covid has taught us anything, you want to be with someone. Same sex, opposite sex, I don’t care. We were not made to go through life alone.

So “The Attaché” is only ten half hour episodes, not much of a commitment. But at times I had to turn it off, it was just too heavy, I needed a break, I had to get out of that space. Yes, I’m watching the show and I’m thinking about the two major breakups in my life and…I don’t want to go there, but I know it’s always possible, the only person you can ultimately know and count on completely is yourself, if you think otherwise you’re fooling yourself. The fact that two people can stay together for an extended period of time and make it work is almost a miracle, it’s the hardest job you’ll ever do. But the rewards make it worth it. At least that’s what I’ve learned.

So most people will never see “The Attaché,” since it’s on Acorn. The best show on Acorn is “Line of Duty,” it’s one of the best streaming shows out there, worth the price of admission. Sign up for Acorn to see it. Acorn’s only six bucks, but getting someone to spend, to get them over the transom, is the most difficult thing to do. And if you do subscribe, also watch “Keeping Faith,” and there are other good shows on the outlet, but after the exquisite experience of the six seasons of “Line of Duty,” thirty six episodes total, pull up “The Attaché,” it’s nowhere near as heavy as it appears from what I’ve written above, in fact at times it’s light, but I’d highly recommend it, there are better shows out there, a bunch of them Israeli, but it’s hard to find something this visceral made in America.

And once you start watching Israeli TV you’ll be stunned how the same people pop up. The female femme fatale of “The Bureau” is a café owner’s wife in “The Attaché.” The reluctant doctor in “Srugim,” the military commander in “Valley of Tears,” is a musician here. They’re actors, not stars, they’re players, it’s fascinating.

But maybe this is not what you want to see. Maybe you want light entertainment, diversion, your regular life is laden with enough problems. But if you watch the right TV shows, you’ll get insight into your regular life, like you used to with independent cinema, but with TV series you can dig deeper.

So I don’t know what is gonna happen in Israel, it’s an impossible situation. Israel has the Iron Dome and Gaza, firing missiles, does not. Therefore John Oliver blames the Israelis. Let me tell you, if you’re Jewish… It used to just be Roger Waters, now we’ve got members of Congress…you can’t say something about women, Blacks, but it’s open season on Jews. Of course that’s not completely true, but that’s exactly the point. No one is so American that they’re part of a pure majority, the only people who are native are…the natives, and one thing is for sure, the Native Americans have been discriminated against for hundreds of years. Eventually you’re gonna find yourself on the wrong side, everybody is going to be against you. And it’s not going to feel good.

This is where Jews are today.

Hell, I’ll just make this final point, which everybody seems to forget, Israel can only lose once.

So do I approve of everything Israel does? Hell no. The fact that there are settlements at all bugs me. But when they march in Charlottesville and yell “Jews will not replace us.” and when there’s a conflagration in the Middle East and the lion’s share of the public is on the side of the Palestinians…it’s just plain scary.

Hi Bob,

In 1974 I was the agent for The Beach Boys. Bill Graham was promoting the CSN&Y tour and made an offer

to the BBs to open six or seven of the shows.

I was at the first date in Milwaukee at County Stadiumand watched The Beach Boys kill. The audience of 50,000 was into it from the first notes of “Heroes and Villains”. Thunderous response. I was bursting at the seams thinking that CSN&Y couldn’t possibly follow them.

Crosby came out alone, with a guitar, played “Almost Cut My Hair” and it was like The Beach Boys never played.

Chip Rachlin

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This one is a desert Island fave. Still stands up! I wore this one out. The songwriting and vocals and the playing. Like no one else. Most people love the 1st album, as do I, BUT..Deja Vu.. every track is a classic!

CSNY was the shit.The interplay between Neil and Stephen is magic and the VOCALS- the writing..! Carry On, What an album starter !

They don’t make albums like this anymore.. well most people are listening to clowns with a laptop and Garage band calling them selves ‘ musicians’  or ‘ producers’  lol

You plug the drum machine in and you are a writer. I know someone that overheard a kid on a plane telling someone ‘ I play the drum machine’ .

These are the end times..

Back to Deja Vu. Where is anyone remotely TRYING to make music like this? And this is 50 years old??? Jeez I am old. haha

Where is the new Steely Dan, or any ORIGINAL sounding band?? Composition that make you go ‘ Holy shit how did they think of THAT?’

Yes spoken by an old guy .. one that has been making records and touring for 45 years but .. yeah I am old and thank GOD I lived the the golden age of rock n roll.

Steve Lukather

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I’m 56, which means ‘Deja Vu’ was one of the albums that was immediately prior to my generation, but it was ubiquitous, in every house, and certainly in my stepdad’s record collection (he’s 8 years younger than my mom).

‘Deja Vu’ is also part of one of my oddest and funniest rock and roll memories. We were in Donnie Ienner’s fancy fancy office at 550 Madison Avenue. Columbia and Maverick/Warner were the two labels fighting to sign us in the home stretch.  Donnie had just CRANKED “Lump” (album was already out on indie Pop Llama) at maybe 120 dB on his mega-stereo and told us about how much he liked our record and that he would put it out as-is on Columbia or let us remix or re-record if we wanted to…and then out of nowhere as were talking about music he sort of leaned back and wistfully spoke aloud what he was going to do that weekend, which was go out to his farm and listen to his favorite album, ‘Deja Vu’, which he went on to wax rhapsodic about for a few minutes.

That’s what music is all about.  Here’s this big badass New York City gorilla of a guy, a human bulldozer who let nothing get in his way, but what was actually in his soul, and he couldn’t express himself, was all the weirdness and sensitivity that CSNY captured in that album.

Nothing but mad respect for both of them, but I was pretty sure Guy O’Seary and Freddy DeMann weren’t spending their Saturdays listening to ‘Deja Vu.’

We signed to Columbia.

dave dederer

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Bob. Thank you. One of your best essays ever.  So many great insights I can strongly relate to. Your praise for Carry On is also so right on. It always pumped me up also. I haven’t listened to whole album but there is lots of magic there. Almost Cut My Hair and Country Girl really seemed sonically much better w better separation of voices and instruments. The acoustic guitar in right channel of Country Girl really came through.

One memory. I visited the Rock Hall of Fame for about three days in a row in 2000 during a 15 month RV trip w my then wife and they had a digital playback system and booths where one could dial in the entire catalog of artists. A hard disc early version of quasi streaming. And Suite Judy Blue Eyes had a loud drum track in the mix! It was so bizarre to hear this mix version! Loud pounding drum. Ahmet must have told that asshole dipshit poseur Wenner to tell his quislings sycophants to put that version of the song in there. It just did not fit at all. Maybe Ahmet thought it was too soft and needed pounding drums. Wonder if Stills knew in advance. I doubt it. Would love to hear story of that.

Everything else I heard was original recordings and I spent hours listening. It was such a great source to explore entire catalogs that we take for granted today w availability of streaming. Of course today so many the Rock Hall (Rap Hall?) inductees are a total fucking piece of shit joke though I love the museum itself and the displays and exhibits and programs etc and the staff does a great job.  If I were relegated to Cleveland I’d be a docent. Sad that even the museum itself was subject to the music industry record label bullshit influence. He said naively!

Derek Morris

Santa Barbara

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How well I remember the anticipated release of Deja Vu. I was in college in a small town in Ohio with one record store and phoned the owner “Old Man Myers” every day until I was finally told a box of 25 LPs had arrived.

I lived off campus so I hiked the 2.5 miles into town, purchased the odd faux-leather covered album and hurried back to my apartment to enjoy.

When I placed the LP on my Garrard turntable I discovered the album was so warped that it would not play – the stylus jumped all over the tracks! I was so angry and disappointed that I immediately retraced my steps and asked for a new copy. Guess what? Every one of the 25 copies was as warped as mine. Apparently, I found out later, the combination of a still- warm vinyl LP stuffed into a cover that was already somewhat warped due to the weight of the front photo, caused the problem.

It was another two weeks before good copies arrived. In the end worth the wait but at the time it felt like the birthday present you really wanted, when opened, was crushed.

Ron Beales

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Excellent piece, Bob. Deja Vu is one of my favorite albums. I can’t wait to hear it as you described. When I turned 4+20 in 2005, I made a point of learning to play that song and it culminated with me playing it solo on guitar on my birthday. However I changed some of the lyrics to:”/He was tired of being poor/He left my mother and ran off with a slightly masculine whore/“ to better suit my situation. (That was a joke of course.) I also saw CSNY do Carry On live in the winter of 2000 and that was extremely powerful.

All the best,

Charlie Soste

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Every single thing you said below filled my heart.  I got my copy of Déjà Vu the first day possible, at the Palm Beach Mall, along with some of my girlfriends. We had our ‘leather album’s and I believe I played it more than any other record of that time.  Maybe Tea for the Tillerman is a close 2^nd.   And it really does hold up. Stills’ voice, and Crosby’s, just sublime.

Chris Schmidt

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Always especially loved Stills’ Spanish conclusion to “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” singing about the beauty of peaceful Cuba and his regrets that he could not visit…CSN (&Y) filled such a great niche in music of the era! Great 50th Anniversary collection. Thanks.

Anthony Napoli
Beacon, NY

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When I listen to “Déjà vu”, it makes me daydream about a different, more pastoral/tangible life that would make more sense for me, if the world progressed in the ways people thought it would, a decade+ before I was born.

I’ve lost count of friends who would surely have different lives, too — people who should be writers, working in the theater, painters, musicians, a few who’d have their own farms — instead of whatever screen-based or service-based grind they’re locked into. The 21st century has plenty of advantages over life as it was 50 years ago, it’s true, but it’s also true that things today are spiritually cruel in myriad ways that feel specifically designed to deaden the soul.

But a few weeks ago, I had a weird musical epiphany while listening to ‘Déjà vu” on a drive, which is that you can do a quasi-“Dark Side of the Moon”/”Wizard of Oz” thing with “Déjà vu”/the arc of the pandemic. The songs seem to create that story and, somehow, actually really fit together. I know that sounds ridiculous, I have absolutely no idea why such a thing came to mind, and I guess it doesn’t really matter. I just think it’s incredibly cool, rare, and wonderful that a 50-year-old album can paint brand-new sonic pictures in my life as it is now. Wild and powerful music tends to be timeless, thank God.

Jennifer Carney

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It was far from a disappointment for me. The Deja Vu album had the 2nd most emotional impact of any album in my entire life. It was a truly lifting experience. Sgt. Pepper’s takes first place only because it is both weird and wonderful, whereas Deja Vu is simply wonderful.

When I dropped the needle on that record, I was transported to some other place in the universe that I didn’t know existed. A true transformation took play in my young mind. It was like I had been imbued with an extra sense to enjoy the world. How incredible is that? Music can resonate with your soul and put you in touch with the Heavens. I wanted more.

“Our House,” “Almost Cut My Hair, ” Woodstock,” et al. It was an astounding musical accomplishment. A true gift to anyone who wanted to partake in a self-discovery tour. Listening to those lush vocals and wonderful harmonies was beyond anything I had yet encountered. Me, a young teenage boy in Melbourne, Australia, sitting alone in my blackened-out den with fluorescent hippie stickers adorning the ceiling with the ultraviolet light charging them up with radiation so that they glowed with the lights off. I felt like I was in heaven. Perhaps I was. Perhaps this is as close as it gets while still on Earth. Thank you CSNY for your timeless gift to humanity.

Best,

Pete Meehan

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God you just sent me down the itunes rabbit hole with this post.

Deja Vu was a seriously important album to me when I was a kid.

I clocked hours listening to that.

And Stephen Stills in particular.

Underrated vocalist IMO.

I was crazy about his work when I was younger..

Still holds up beautifully..

And even on my computer speakers the complexity of those sometimes intricate arrangements shines through.

What an era. There’s great music being made today–

But listening to this and more reminds me once again that  we grew up in a renaissance era.

Karen Gordon

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After my first listen, on Tidal hi/res, on Friday, I posted, “the
guitars were covered with gauze until this issue, it’s been a long
time”

I upgraded my playback in January, the Kef LS50 Wireless II is a high
end streaming stereo system on it’s own.

I’ve been listening to that era’s recordings, in hi/res, daily for 4
months, this is the most sumptuous offering.

It’s been a long time, it’s better than ever.

Paul Zullo

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Bob, I’ve never stopped listening to Deja Vu which in my opinion is the greatest hippie rock album of all time. Listening to the 50th Anniversary Deluxe as i write this…but i still think that  “Country Girl – I Think You’re Pretty” is perhaps the best track on the album.. it sure as hell resonates with me.  The imagery is fantastic .  i wanna cry everytime i hear it..This album has been an incredible lasting influence on my approach to music throughout my career.

Randy Dawson

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I was seven when Déjà Vu was released. Would be seven more years before I listened to the album for the first time.  I knew that day, It would not be my last.

Michael Murphy

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Love this album, one of the greats.

Though CS&N debut is hard to beat by any band, even if you add in Neil Young.

I also have a weak spot for the Graham Nash & David Crosby 1972 album, bit more patchy but tracks like Where Will I Be?, Page 43, Immigration Man, The Wall Song, Strangers Room, Girl Be On My Mind are up there with their best.

Add their solo works, I Miss You, There’s Only One, Wounded Bird, Better Days, Traction In The Rain, Stephen Stills albums including Manassas, Crosby with If Only I Could Remember My Name……

All sheer genius and make up one of my favourite playlists “CN&S some Y”, so called as the trio for me are untouchable.

So sad we are likely to never see the trio live again, as live their three voices come together to make a fourth voice that nobody else can match.

Regards

Robin Hill

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“It’s not about having the best voice, it’s about having the most expressive voice, just ask Rod Stewart or Bob Dylan.”

Thank you,
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Elvis
Joe Strummer
Warren Zevon
Mick Jagger
Waylon Jennings
Eric Burdon
Jerry Garcia

Dennis Pelowski

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Bob,

Having heard it many times on the radio as a teen, I always thought it was “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes”.  Then I bought the album.

Cheers,

Tom Moore

Oxford, MI

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It seems that everything I need to know I learn from you.  Thank you.

Steven Okin