INELIGIBLE – Stephen Stills & ILLEGAL STILLS
ILLEGAL STILLS (1976) With Donnie Dacus receiving songwriting credit on five songs and taking lead vocals on three, Stills seems a guest on his own below par LP.
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UP THE CREEK Stephen Stills & Manassas – DOWN THE ROAD (1973)
As 1972 drew to a close, it was hard to think of a mainstream rock musician in better creative fettle than Stephen Stills. Of his male contemporaries around the same age, Pete Townshend could still not decide what concept opus…
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FRIENDS UN-UNITED – The Stills/Young Band: LONG MAY YOU RUN (1976)
Co-Producer Tom Dowd later described sessions for the ‘Long May You Run’ album as ‘two superstars that were walking the same golf course but not playing the same game.’
TAYLORED TO FIT: James Taylor – ‘MUD SLIDE SLIM and the BLUE HORIZON’
‘Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon’ (1971) provided refuge against the world rather than a reaction to it.
OVER THE STILLS – Stephen Stills & ‘STILLS’ (1975)
‘STILLS’ (1975) contains any number of fine songs, but there remains a sense that a good album should have been a great one.
MAKE THE BEST OF THE SITUATION – Twenty Great Albums of 1970
The Domino effect: Eric Clapton produces a spotless collection with Derek & the Dominoes.
NEED TO KNOW – Poco & ‘A GOOD FEELIN’ TO KNOW’
With ‘Sweet Lovin’ Poco create a rare example of country-prog – sounding more Pink Floyd than Gram Parsons.
STILLS THE SAME – ‘STEPHEN STILLS II’
‘STEPHEN STILLS II’ contains the triumph and tribulation that went into being Stephen Stills – part genius/part ego-manic.
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING – ‘BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN’
‘Buffalo Springfield Again’ is a record so textured and deeply resonant it becomes a West Coast version of ‘Sgt. Pepper.’
THRILLS & STILLS – ‘STEPHEN STILLS’
‘STEPHEN STILLS’ (November 1970) shows him in such sparkling form it casts a shadow over every album he had yet been involved with.