Stephen Stills (Album)
Stephen Stills is the first solo album of American rock musician Stephen Stills, who had arrived since 1967 in the groups Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash ( & Young) to fame.
Musical Style, charts and guests
After the success of their album Déjà Vu (1970 ), which was No. 1 on the U.S. LP charts, published every four members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young solo albums. During Neil Young's album After the Gold Rush came in at number 8 on the Billboard charts, David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name ... Do not make it past number 12 and Graham Nash himself even had to make do with Songs For Beginners with number 15, reached Stills ' solo debut 3rd place
The album contained the single, Love The One You're With, which made it to # 14 in the U.S. singles chart (and also the Top 40 in the UK reached ) and thus of today biggest solo hit of Stephen Stills was. In addition, even the piece Sit Yourself Down is decoupled, which debuted at # 37 on the U.S. charts.
For his album stills were a number of prominent guests win: John Sebastian, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Rita Coolidge and " Mama" Cass Elliot contributed some vocal parts, Ringo Starr sat as " Richie" in two pieces on drums, Booker T. Jones played on the organ, Eric Clapton on Go Back Home Guitar Jimi Hendrix and the same instrument on Old Times Good Times. Stephen Stills is thus the only album in rock history, on which can be heard both Hendrix and Clapton. With stills even the plate thus contained photographs of three of the best guitarists in rock history.
Musically, too, offered Stephen Stills the listener a wide range of quality music: from the folk-rock hippie number Love The One You're With on the gospel song Church ( Part of Someone ), the acoustic Southern blues Black Queen, the electric blues piece Go Back Home to A Flame and the ballad to rock number Old Times Good Times. All songs are original compositions by Stephen Stills, who also wrote all the lyrics. The pieces Love The One You're With and Black Queen are still among the most popular titles and stills are still in the repertoire at live performances. By Black Queen there is no actual studio version: Also on the album is heard in a live recording, only the 2007 on his plate Just Roll Tape - April 26th, 1968 published demo version could be described as a studio recording.
Love The One You're With has been widely gecovert, including, Aretha Franklin, the title in 1971 as Soul - piece live recorded by the Isley Brothers, who came with her gospel version of the song in 1971 to number 18 on the U.S. charts, the British pop group Bucks Fizz, where their pop - version gereichte to number 47 in the British charts, and most recently in 2006 by British jazz musician Denis Rollins on his album Big Night Out! . Even in these very different artists demonstrates the musical range of the piece, which to date has hardly lost its appeal. Other interpretations of the song is also available from Joe Cocker, the Les Humphries Singers, Engelbert the Supremes along with the Four Tops and Crosby, Stills, Nash ( & Young). The title Love The One You're With Stills had allegedly - with his consent and - taken over by Billy Preston.
On the success of his solo debut, Stephen Stills was never able to return as a solo artist. His debut album is also his best-selling and is still hung up with Atlantic Records.
Title list
All tracks were written and written by Stephen Stills.
Instrumentation and instruments
- Stephen Stills - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ, Steel Drum, Percussion
- Calvin "Fuzzy " Samuels - bass
- Dallas Taylor - drums
- Conrad Isedor - drums
- Ringo Starr ( as " Richie" ) - drums
- Johnny barbata - drums
- Jeff Whittaker - congas
- Jimi Hendrix - guitar (track 4)
- Eric Clapton - Guitar ( Title 5 )
- Booker T. Jones - organ, vocals
- Sidney George - flute, alto saxophone
- David Crosby - Vocals
- Graham Nash - Vocals
- John Sebastian - vocals
- Rita Coolidge - Vocals
- Priscilla Jones - Vocals
- Claudia Lanier - Vocals
- Cass Elliot - Vocals
- Liza Strike - Vocals
- Judith Powell - Vocals
- Larry Steele - Vocals
- Tony Wilson - vocals
- Sherlie Matthews - choir, singing
Brass arranged by Stephen Stills; Strings arranged by Stephen Stills and Arif Mardin