Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young- Deja Vu @55 March 17

As unanticipated as the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album had been less than a year earlier, the March 1970 follow up Deja Vu included a fourth emerging star, Neil Young (like Stephen Stills, a graduate of the seminal Buffalo Springfield) which was heralded like a major Hollywood movie. Deja Vu included the scintillating harmonies and acoustic arrangements like that first effort with “Helpless”and “Our House”, but guitarists Stills and Young helped the quartet find an electric outlet to plug into for “Carry On”, “Teach Your Children”, “Almost Cut My Hair”, and the definitive version of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock”.

But what no one outside the four corners of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young knew was that the recording of Deja Vu was fraught with personal and professional struggles. Join the late David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young here In the Studio with my rare interview on the fifty-fifth anniversary of Deja Vu the week of March 17. -Redbeard