Steven Stills Manassas Down the road

[Mrrusty1]

Down the road by Steven Stills Manassas . a really great album filled with great songs and musicianship. seems to have been rather overlooked . a lot of people concentrating on the great CSN releases .Down the road is reall worth listening a really good rocking album.[ATTACH=CONFIG]1391[/ATTACH]

[Music Head]

Stills solo albums were all good and overlooked

[Mrrusty1]

yes i agree stills did some great records

[CRAZY-HORSE]

never been a big fan of Stills as a solo artist but he is a great guitarist, i still think "for what its worth" from the Buffalo Springfield days is his best song...too much friction between him and Neil Young for my liking, much like that between Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour...and fans tend to go the way of one of those artists also, me.... Roger and Neil respectively so Stills and Gilmour ralrey get a look-in unfortunately!

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Stills solo albums were all good and overlooked

im going to have to revisit his solo material at some point, i guess!

[SteveO]

STEPHEN STILLS - STEPHEN STILLS (1970)






I played the hell of Stephen's first album 42 years ago(on good old vinyl) and I Stills (lol) go back to it ocassionally ! It's a dynamite album !!!! I love his voice, original and distinctive like Neils' ! Just take a look at the infamous musicians on this gigantic record !

All Music rating ...4.5/5

Copied from Wikipedia:

All songs written by Stephen Stills.
[h=3]Side 1[/h]

1. "Love the One You're With" – 3:04
   
2. "Do for the Others" – 2:52
   
3. "Church (Part of Someone) – 4:05
   
4. "Old Times Good Times" – 3:39
   
5. "Go Back Home" – 5:54
   

[h=3]Side 2[/h]

1. "Sit Yourself Down" – 3:05
   
2. "To a Flame" – 3:08
   
3. "Black Queen" – 5:26
   
4. "Cherokee" – 3:23
   
5. "We Are Not Helpless" – 4:20
   

[h=2]Personnel[/h]

• Stephen Stills - vocals, guitars, bass, piano, organ, steel drum, percussion
  
• Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuel - bass
  
• Dallas Taylor - drums
  
• Conrad Isedor - drums
  
• Ringo Starr (listed as "Richie" on track listing, tracks 7 and 10) - drums
  
• Johnny Barbata - drums
  
• Jeff Whittaker - congas
  
• Jimi Hendrix - guitar (Track 4)
  
• Eric Clapton - guitar (Track 5)
  
• Booker T. Jones - organ, vocal
  
• Sidney George - flute and alto saxophone
  
• David Crosby - vocals
  
• Graham Nash - vocals
  
• John Sebastian - vocals
  
• Rita Coolidge - vocals
  
• Priscilla Jones - vocals
  
• Claudia Lanier - vocals
  
• Cass Elliott - vocals
  
• Henry Diltz - photography (cover), vocal
  
• Liza Strike - vocal
  
• Judith Powell - vocal
  
• Larry Steele - vocal
  
• Tony Wilson - vocal
  
• Sherlie Matthews - chorus, vocals
  

Horns arranged by Stephen Stills; strings arranged by Stephen Stills and Arif Mardin

[CRAZY-HORSE]

alright SteveO, you have convinced me...next trip to Corey sees me walk out with a Stills album, hopefully the one you mentioned above

[SteveO]

Good man, CH ! ..I think you'll like it !

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ok SteveO...

popped in to see Corey today...and i bought the one you mentioned above, lucky though as it ws the only Stills album in the store...been a bit of a ruch on his records lately...im guessing its because CSN are performing at the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival in a couple of weekends time...Corey also said sales of CCR have gone up slightly over the last week also as Fogerty is the headline act at the festival...for which Dani and I have tickets as you know from previous posts over the last few weeks.
personally, i dont care if i see CSN or not as i find their music boring without Neil Young in the loop, even though he tended to record his songs seperate from CSN he added something to the group, not sure what it was but its there in his prescence IMO.

dont like David Crosby of Greame Nash's solo material either, but together with CSNY their harmonies are beautiful and ethereal at times.

[Music Head]

damn Neil Young fanatics