Stephen Stills had already recorded one side of the Super Session album with Al Kooper. Nash subsequently compiled the double-record live set Four Way Street, which included Young classics such as “On the Way Home,” “Cowgirl in the Sand,” and “Southern Man,” and two beautiful Crosby songs, “Triad” and “The Lee Shore.” It featured three hits, an electric version of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” and two Nash songs, “Teach Your Children” and “Our House.” The album also included Crosby’s title song and “Almost Cut My Hair,” Stills’s “Carry On” and “4 and 20,” and Young’s three-part production effort “Country Girl.” By fall 1970, the group had split, but not before issuing Young’s brilliant “Ohio,” an outraged response to the Kent State student murders of May 1970. Young admirably took up the slack for Deja Vu, the group’s most successful album. By the end of the year, however, the “good vibes” that had produced the magnificent results on the first album were dashed, as Stills broke up with Judy Collins, Nash broke up with Joni Mitchell, and Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in an auto crash. They debuted at N.Y/s Fillmore East less than a month before the quartet’s celebrated appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. In an effort to fill out their acoustic sound, Crosby, Stills and Nash recruited Neil Young, another former member of Buffalo Springfield who was pursuing a successful solo career. Included were two Crosby songs, “Long Time Gone” and “Guinnevere,” Nash’s “Lady of the Island,” Stills’s “Helplessly Hoping,” and the mystical “Wooden Ships,” composed by Crosby, Stills, and (uncredited) Paul Kantner. With Crosby on rhythm guitar and Stills overdubbing lead guitar, organ, and bass, the album featured precise three-part harmonies. Signing with Atlantic Records in January 1969, their debut album Crosby, Stills and Nash yielded two moderate hits with Nash’s “Marrakesh Express” and Stills’s “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” written about Judy Collins. Nash performed his last engagement with the Hollies on Dec.

An informal jam session in Los Angeles that July so impressed the three that they decided to form a group as soon as Nash could sever relations with the English group.

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MEMBERSHIP: David Crosby (real name, David Van Cortland), gtr., tenor voc. Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young), the quintessential close harmony, acoustic-guitar, songwriting trio of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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