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| Artist: Crosby Stills & Nash
Label: Rhino
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 246348
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 081227992514
EAN: 0081227992514
ASIN: B0019M62QO
Release Date: August 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | War Games | | • | Raise A Voice | | • | Turn Your Back On Love | | • | He Played Real Good For Free | | • | Barrel Of Pain | | • | Shadow Captain | | • | Dark Star | | • | Blackbird | | • | For What It's Worth | | • | Wasted On The Way |
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| Customer Reviews:
Don't turn your back September 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This somewhat maligned album, released at the time when Crosby's drugabuse had reached ludicris proportions, is actually a lot better than it's reputation. In fact most of the music is downright brilliant.
The album consists of 2 studiotracks, amongst them Stills' poignant "War Games", and 8 live tracks, recorded around the same time as the "Daylight Again"-show (available on DVD). The band that includes the late, legendary drummer Jeff Porcaro is tight and inventive. Specially Mike Finnegan shines on organ and some potent vocals, often covering for Crosby, who isn't audible on most tracks, not even on his own "Shadow Captain".
Stills was really the man in charge at the time, contributing fine songs like "Don't Turn Your Back On Love" and "Dark Star", singing with authority and finess and of course playing some great solos. Nash, the always reliable, coming up with the politically still all too relevant "Barrels Of Pain" (about nuclear waste) and the beautiful and optimistic "Wasted On The Way".
Yet the highlight of the album is no doubt Crosby's spinetingling and intense version of Joni Mitchell's "For Free", singing like a man possesed (which he of course also was at the time).
This new Rhino-version is clearly a vast sonic improvement, making it a worthy testimony to one of the all-time greatest bands.
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