Deja Vu

Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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Average Rating: (See all reviews) Label: Atlantic (USA) Quantity Available: 104 Ships within 6-11 days 1  Carry On 2  Teach Your Children 3  Almost Cut My Hair 4  Helpless 5  Woodstock 6  Deja Vu 7  Our House 8  4 + 20 9  Down / "Country Girl" (I Think You're Pretty) Country Girl Medley: Whiskey Boot Hill / Down, Down 10  Everybody I Love You Performer Notes Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: David Crosby, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Stephen Stills (vocals, various instruments). Additional personnel: Jerry Garcia (steel guitar); John Sebastian (autoharp); Gregory Reeves (bass instrument); Dallas Taylor (percussion). Recording information: Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles, California. Crosby, Still, and Nash topped their enormously popular self-titled 1969 debut by adding Neil Young to their ranks and expanding their stylistic and sonic range. The result, released in 1970, was an artistic and commercial success, representing the talents of the four primary players to excellent effect. More ambitious and incisive than its CSN predecessor, DEJA VU brings together folk, psychedelia, jazz, African, and Middle Eastern flavors, Tin Pan Alley, and hard rock in a manner that captures the tenor of the era's counterculture without sounding dated. The group's distinctively lush harmonies are spread across the album, notably on the record's two centerpieces--"Carry On," which segues into a chugging, percussion-fueled groove halfway through, and "Woodstock," the band's hard rock re-working of the Joni Mitchell tune. Elsewhere, the songs are stamped by individual personalities, as on David Crosby's driving "Almost Cut My Hair," Graham Nash's quaint "Our House," and Stephen Stills dark, folky "4+20." Young's aching, plaintive "Helpless" is one of the highlights here, as is Crosby's complex title cut (with its intricate rhythms and vocal arrangements). Though their time together was tumultuous and short-lived, CSNY were one of the most successful acts of the era, and DEJA VU finds them at their peak. Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.131) - Ranked #148 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "Young's vision and guitar transformed the earlier folk-rock CSN into a rock & roll powerhouse." Producer: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo Country: USA Quantity Available: 104 UPC: 075678264924 Studio/Live: Studio Release Date: 9 August 1994

Bought this record when it first came out on vinyl it was good then and still is

"Deju Vu" is four very different musical identities, each with their own style and voice, turning out very different songs. The only constant in this album is the beautiful, close vocal harmonies provided by all four. Somehow, however, the album works. This is shining, pristine country-rock with a slight hippie bent ("Almost Cut My Hair", "Woodstock"). It is an invaluable cultural artifact and just a wonderful album to boot. Highly recommended.