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How ‘Crosby Stills and Nash’ Captured This Supergroup at Their Peak

How ‘Crosby Stills and Nash’ Captured This Supergroup at Their Peak

Released on 55 years ago this week, ‘Crosby Stills and Nash’ brought together guys whose average work shames most rock composers. Then they upped the ante.

Yes, That’s Stephen Stills on One of the Bee Gees’ Biggest Hit Singles

Yes, That’s Stephen Stills on One of the Bee Gees’ Biggest Hit Singles

Stephen Stills’ only platinum song performance wasn’t on Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” nor his own “Love the One You’re With.”

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills’ ‘Super Session’ Was a Free-Form Masterpiece

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills’ ‘Super Session’ Was a Free-Form Masterpiece

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills’ wildly improvisational ‘Super Session’ arrived 55 years ago this month. They don’t make them like this anymore.

Billy Porter, “For What It’s Worth” (2020): One Track Mind

Billy Porter, “For What It’s Worth” (2020): One Track Mind

Billy Porter has released a new version of Stephen Stills’ classic “For What It’s Worth,” a Vietnam-era protest song that never feels dated. It’s predictably stirring.

Chicago, “Closer to You” from ‘Chicago 13’ (1979): Saturdays in the Park

Chicago, “Closer to You” from ‘Chicago 13’ (1979): Saturdays in the Park

Chicago got in their own way once again, as Donnie Dacus’s vocals marred an otherwise enjoyable song.

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Stephen Stills & Judy Collins – ‘Everybody Knows’ (2017)

Stephen Stills finds the fountain of youth by going back to one of his original muses, Judy Collins, who co-headlines on ‘Everybody Knows.’

Manassas – Manassas (1972): Shadows in Stereo

Manassas – Manassas (1972): Shadows in Stereo

You have to wonder why Manassas went under so many people’s radar, especially with the gap left by the breakup of Crosby Stills Nash and Young in 1970.

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The Rides, “Virtual World” from Pierced Arrow (2016): Something Else! sneak peek

The ‘Pierced Arrow’ advance track “Virtual World” exemplifies everything that’s right about the Rides: a comfortable confidence that can only come from stellar musicians with nothing left to prove.

Nick DeRiso’s Best Of 2013 (Reissue and Live): The Band, Otis Redding, Beach Boys, ELO, Jethro Tull

Nick DeRiso’s Best Of 2013 (Reissue and Live): The Band, Otis Redding, Beach Boys, ELO, Jethro Tull

The Band is revealed in all of its muscular, almost (but never completely) out-of-control on-stage glory — bolstered, in a meeting of musical worlds, by these stabbing horn charts from Allen Toussaint. You May Also Like: Jethro Tull, “War Child II” (2014): One Track Mind Jethro Tull Road Stories: CallRead More

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The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine on touring and recording with Brian Wilson: ‘We’re going all the way back’

Even the disintigration of a long-hoped-for Beach Boys reunion hasn’t stopped Brian Wilson’s third-act creative resurgence. Ask Al Jardine, a childhood friend and long-time bandmate You May Also Like: ‘We do look like the Beach Boys’: Brian Wilson and Al Jardine are still battling with Mike Love Brian Wilson’s NoRead More