Crosby, Stills and Nash – Daylight Again (2LP, 45RPM)
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Vocals, keyboards - David Crosby [click here to see more vinyl featuring David Crosby]
Vocals, electric guitar, organ, percussion, acoustic guitar, acoustic piano, harmonica - Graham Nash [click here to see more vinyl featuring Graham Nash]
Vocals, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, keyboards, percussion - Stephen Stills
Written by GrahamNash (A1-2, B2, C3), Michael Stergis (A1, C1, D1), Stephen Stills (A1, B1, C1-2, D1, D3), Michael Curtis (B1), Richard Curtis (B1), David Crosby (B3), Gerry Tolman (C2), Craig Doerge, Judy Henske (D2)
2LPs, gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printing
Limited edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Analogue Productions - Atlantic 75 series
Original Label : Atlantic
Recorded 1980-1981 at Rudy Records Studio, Devonshire Sound and Sea West Studio
Engineered by Stanley Johnston, Steve Gursky, Gaylord Holamalaya, Gerry Lentz, Gordon Rowley, Jay Parti, Jeff Kallestad, Jerry Hudgins, Russell Schmitt, Steve Barncard
Produced by Craig Doerge, Stanley Johnston
Mastered by Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman
Art Direction by Jimmy Wachtel
Photography Henry Diltz, Eric Waltershied, Mark Hanauer
Originally released in June 1982
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
Side A:
- Turn Your Back On Love
- Wasted On The Way
Side B:
- Southern Cross
- Into The Darkness
- Delta
Side C:
- Since I Met You
- Too Much Love To Hide
- Song For Susan
Side D:
- You Are Alive
- Might As Well Have A Good Time
- Daylight Again/Find The Cost Of Freedom
Reviews:
Although Crosby, Stills & Nash had, in effect, been together for well over a decade when Daylight Again (1982) was issued, it was only their third studio long-player of concurrently new material. Initially, the project began as a collaborative effort between Stephen Stills (guitar/banjo/keyboards/percussion/vocals) and Graham Nash (guitar/keyboards/percussion/vocals), as David Crosby was descending into a self-induced state of perpetual drug dependency. However, Crosby was included, although arguably in name alone, and his hauntingly lyrical "Delta" stands as one of his finest contributions.
Perhaps the most telling element in the trio's state of affairs was the addition of the Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit and CSN bandmember Mike Finnigan (keyboards/vocals) on vocals throughout. Despite that obvious setback, the other two primary namesakes supply some genuine and uniformly excellent material to the proceedings. Among the most notable are Nash's "Wasted on the Way" -- which was lyrically an ode to the status of the group's union -- and Stills' collaboration with the Curtis Brothers on "Southern Cross." Both were extracted as singles and became among the best-known tracks not only on Daylight Again, but also in the post-'60s CSN canon. The disc also includes a few thoroughly affective ballads such as "Song for Susan" -- which Nash wrote for his spouse -- and Stills' equally emotive "You Are Alive.
" By contrast, the album's opener, "Turn Your Back on Love," as well as "Too Much Love to Hide" and "Since I Met You" are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker. The disc concludes with Stills' lone solo composition on the album -- a two-part track marrying the newly penned Civil War elegy to a chorus of the 1970 anthem "Find the Cost of Freedom." Again, Crosby's absence is noted with the incorporation of Art Garfunkel's vocals where Crosby's should have been. Daylight Again is by no means as insipid as their next studio effort, Live It Up (1990). In the wake of their eponymously titled debut and the CSN (1977) follow-up, there is a notable change in the direction and quality of material. AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer.
"Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Wasted on the Way," the Top 10 single from Daylight Again, couldn't have been a better metaphor for everything that brought the tempestuous trio back together: "There's so much time to make up, everywhere you turn."
"That was a song I wrote for David [Crosby] and Stephen [Stills]," Graham Nash told the Oklahoman in 1982, "to tell them that I thought we had wasted too much time and too much love and too much music in petty arguments."
These weren't sentiments about a faraway time. Released on June 21, 1982, the platinum-selling Daylight Again grew out of a series of failed attempts by Nash and Stills to produce an album for Atlantic in sessions that dated back to 1980. Their label wasn't going to be satisfied, however, until the erstwhile Crosby was back on board.
By then, Nash and Stills had been reduced to self-financing the long-delayed project – which became known, among the band and crew, as "the album that wouldn't die." A series of guest singers had also already joined the proceedings, including Timothy B. Schmit and Art Garfunkel.
"They wanted a Crosby, Stills & Nash album," Nash said in Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography. "They knew that as a combination, CSN would sell more than anything me and Stephen might have together. And when I stated listening, over and over, to the work that Stephen and I had done, I swear I could hear Crosby's voice in there. It was a like his ghost was singing on the tracks. Very weird. Then I would realize he really wasn't there, and I started to miss him."
Crosby began by adding background vocals to Nash's already-completed "Song for Susan," and all three singers were featured on Crosby's "Might as Well Have a Good Time." But on other tunes – notably Stills' "Daylight Again," featuring Garfunkel – Crosby agreed that the completed tracks simply couldn't be improved upon. Similarly, Crosby's basically finished "Delta" was so deeply layered that there was simply no room for Nash or Stills.
In the end, this became something of a blessing, since Crosby needed songs for a solo project he was working on. Moreover, dependency issues had also badly sapped his stamina. (Crosby eventually spent nine months in jail after being convicted in 1983 on drugs and weapons charges.) In fact, only one new song was cut after Crosby's arrival: "Since I Met You," a Stills co-write featuring Toto co-founder Jeff Porcaro on drums. Stills ultimately dominated the songwriting, co-composing six of the 11 songs on Daylight Again.
The title track dated back to Stills' mid-'70s era solo shows, when the guitarist would pair spontaneous Civil War-related remembrances with a searching riff to form a lengthy intro for "Find the Cost of Freedom." "Southern Cross," Stills' Top 20 hit, grew out of a song originally titled "Seven League Boots" by Michael and Richard Curtis.
"I rewrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce," Stills later remembered. "It's about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds."
Crosby, however, was again nowhere to be found on "Southern Cross," despite appearing in the accompanying video. "I wish I would have been here sooner," he mused in Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography. "I wish some more of my music was on there."
A tour followed the release of Daylight Again, only the fourth studio album by the group in 14 years – but then came another lengthy absence. (Crosby, Stills & Nash wouldn't reform in the studio until 1988, and this time with Neil Young.) By then, "Wasted on the Way" and "Southern Cross" had filtered seamlessly into tour set lists dominated by much older songs, and the turmoil surrounding these sessions felt like ancient history.
"This was, by far, one of the most frustrating projects of my life," Nash said in Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography. "Sometimes, it was hard to see the whole and get a sense of CSN as a unit. But we pulled it together. ... I'm very proud of this record. It took far too long to complete, but it was worth it." Ultimate Classic Rock by Nick DeRiso
Ratings:
Discogs : 3.62 / 5 ; AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; The Music Box : 3 / 5