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4364 - STEPHEN STILLS - Carry On, Disc Four (2013)

STEPHEN STILLS
''CARRY ON, DISC FOUR''
MARCH 2013
294:20

DISC ONE
1/Travelin'
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:19
2/High Flyin' Bird
Billy Edd Wheeler/The Au Go-Go Singers/2:34
3/Sit Down I Think I Love You
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:32
4/Go and Say Goodbye
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:32
5/For What It's Worth
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:38
6/Everydays
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:42
7/Pretty Girl Why
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:27
8/Bluebird
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/4:30
9/Rock & Roll Woman
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:47
10/Special Care
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/3:32
11/Questions
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:55
12/Uno Mundo
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/2:05
13/Four Days Gone
Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield/3:47
14/Who Ran Away?
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:20
15/49 Reasons
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:44
16/Helplessly Hoping
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:40
17/You Don't Have to Cry
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:44
18/Suite: Judy Blues Eyes
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/7:26
19/4+20
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:11
20/So Beings the Task
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:29
21/The Lee Shore
David Crosby/Stephen Stills/2:58
22/Carry On/Questions
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/4:26
23/Woodstock
Joni Mitchell/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/3:52

DISC TWO
1/Love the One You're With
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:06
2/Old Times Good Times
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:41
3/Black Queen
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/5:29
4/No-Name Jam Feat. Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix / Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:40
5/Go Back Home
Stephen Stills5:56
6/Marianne
Stephen Stills2:29
7/My Love Is a Gentle Thing
Stephen Stills1:23
8/Fishes and Scorpions
Stephen Stills3:17
9/The Treasure
Stephen Stills4:14
10/To a Flame
Stephen Stills3:10
11/Cherokee Feat. The Memphis Horns
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:26
12/Song of Love
Stephen Stills/3:26
13/Rock & Roll Crazies/Cuban Bluegrass
Joe Lala / Stephen Stills / Dallas Taylor/3:31
14/Jet Set (Sigh)
Stephen Stills/3:44
15/It Doesn't Matter
Chris Hillman / Stephen Stills/2:30
16/Colorado
Stephen Stills/2:53
17/Johnny's Garden
Stephen Stills/2:46
18/Change Partners
Stephen Stills/3:17
19/Do for the Others Feat. Steven Fromholz
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:47
20/Find the Cost of Freedom
Stephen Stills/2:25
21/Little Miss Bright Eyes
Stephen Stills/2:11
22/Isn't It About Time
Stephen Stills/3:01

DISC THREE
1/Turn Back the Pages
Donnie Dacus / Stephen Stills/4:04
2/First Things First
Joe Schermetzler / Jon Smith / Stephen Stills/2:22
3/My Angel
Stephen Stills / Dallas Taylor/2:36
4/Love Story
Stephen Stills/4:15
5/As I Come of Age
Stephen Stills/2:37
6/Know You Got to Run
John Hopkins / Stephen Stills/2:58
7/Black Coral
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/4:25
8/I Give You Give Blind
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/3:20
9/Crossroads/You Can't Catch Me
Chuck Berry / Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/6:39
10/See the Changes
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:58
11/Thoroughfare Gap
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:33
12/Lowdown
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:48
13/Cuba al Fin [Edit]
Stephen Stills / Talitha Stills/Stephen Stills/4:53
14/Dear Mr. Fantasy Feat. Graham Nash
James Capaldi / Steve Winwood / Christopher Wood/Stephen Stills/6:21
15/Spanish Suite Feat. Herbie Hancock
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/11:20
16/Feel Your Love
Graham Nash / Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/4:27
17/Raise a Voice
Graham Nash / Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:32
18/Daylight Again/Find the Cost of Freedom
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:29

DISC FOUR
1/Southern Cross
Michael Curtis / Richard Curtis / Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/4:42
2/Dark Star
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/4:52
3/Turn Your Back on Love
Graham Nash / Michael Stergis / Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/5:19
4/War Games
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/2:19
5/50/50
Joe Lala / Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/4:21
6/Welfare Blues
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:02
7/Church (Part of Someone)
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:42
8/I Don't Get It
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:38
9/Isn't It So
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:08
10/Haven't We Lost Enough?
Kevin Cronin / Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/3:06
11/The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Bob Dylan/Stephen Stills/4:08
12/Treetop Flyer
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/4:55
13/Heart's Gate
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/2:59
14/Girl from the North Country
Bob Dylan/Crosby, Stills & Nash/3:46
15/Feed the People
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/4:32
16/Panama
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/4:14
17/No Tears Left
Stephen Stills/Crosby, Stills & Nash/4:54
18/Ole Man Trouble
Otis Redding/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/5:03
19/Ain't It Always
Stephen Stills/Stephen Stills/3:31

REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The last of Crosby, Stills & Nash to receive his own multi-disc career retrospective, Stephen Stills is rewarded for his long wait with Carry On, the best of these box sets. Spanning four discs -- one CD longer than the either the 2006 David Crosby or 2009 Graham Nash boxes -- Carry On follows a pattern familiar from those Crosby and Nash sets, balancing unreleased material with all the big hits, deep cuts, and some alternate mixes, but where this set excels is in painting a full, robust portrait of Stills as a songwriter, guitarist, and musical wanderer, chronicling his peaks and valleys without lingering too long on the latter. Certainly, what lasts is Stills' restlessness, how he was grounded in folk -- the first cut here finds a teenage Stills alone with his acoustic guitar, essaying "Travelin'," not knowing that its restlessness would echo throughout his life -- but also found solace in blues and rock & roll, taking extended guitar sojourns either accompanied by Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield or Jimi Hendrix on his own (the unreleased "No-Name Jam" that pops up on the second disc). Often, Stills' skills as a guitarist are underappreciated -- a byproduct of being a cornerstone of perhaps the biggest folk-rock trio of its time -- but his virtuosity is present throughout Carry On, as are his hippie leanings and his almost imperceptible but persistent desire to follow the trends of the time. As the set progresses, Stills follows almost every production of his time, surrounding himself with funky fusion players in the early '70s and eagerly succumbing to glistening synths in the '80s. His passion for Latin music is accentuated -- it's there as early as "Uno Mundo" in Buffalo Springfield -- but so is his restless, searching spirit, a hunger that is somewhat dampened by the polished productions of the '80s and '90s, where the sparkle of synthesizers obscures the songs. Nevertheless, Stills' acceptance of the precision production of the '80s and '90s is an important part of his story, and it's possible to hear this box as a brief unintentional history of his time, as he abandons the earth and dirt of Buffalo Springfield and early CSN(&Y) for a slicker, softer sound. But that's part of what makes Carry On so fascinating: you can hear Stills slipping into an oddly crowd-pleasing mentality yet he still relies on the folk, blues, and rock that have always anchored him, so he never sounds like he's selling out; he's merely adapting to the times. And by not ignoring these flaws, Carry On winds up as a rousing, moving testament to a singer/songwriter/guitarist who often doesn't get the credit he's due.

BIOGRAPHY
by Jason Ankeny
Famed for his work in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash, two of pop music's most successful and enduring groups, Stephen Stills was born in Dallas, Texas, on January 3, 1945. He became fascinated by music at a young age, and by the age of 15 was playing professionally. He eventually dropped out of college to move to New York City to try his hand as a folk performer before signing on as a guitar player with the Au Go-Go Singers, where he befriended a fellow bandmate named Richie Furay.

After a tour of Canada (during which they headlined a bill with the Squires, which featured guitarist Neil Young), Stills left the Au Go-Gos in 1965 for Los Angeles, where he became enmeshed in the city's burgeoning folk-rock community. After a series of session gigs and auditions (including one for the TV series The Monkees), in the spring of 1966 Stills enlisted Young, Furay, bassist Bruce Palmer, and drummer Dewey Martin to form the Herd, later dubbed the Buffalo Springfield. A year later, the group issued their eponymous debut; its Stills-penned single "For What It's Worth," made them stars. Internal problems, ego clashes, and drugs were already tearing the band apart, however, and by the release of 1968's Last Time Around, the Springfield had already dissolved.

Stills quickly resurfaced with 1968's Super Session, recorded with fellow guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. A jam session with ex-Byrd David Crosby and former Hollies member Graham Nash led to the formation of the vocal harmony supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash; released in 1969, their self-titled debut was hugely successful, propelled by the single "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," written by Stills for folksinger Judy Collins. Later that year, Neil Young joined the loose-knit group, and in 1970, as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, they issued Déjà Vu, another major hit.

From its inception, CSNY was designed to allow the individual performers great latitude for their solo work, and following the recording of the group's live LP Four Way Street, in late 1970 Stills released his self-titled solo debut. Sparked by the success of the hit single "Love the One You're With," the album, which featured cameos from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, was another smash, as was his 1971 follow-up Stephen Stills 2. In 1972, Stills began performing with a new backing unit, Manassas, which featured ex-Byrd and Flying Burrito Brother Chris Hillman; both their eponymous debut and 1973's Down the Road continued Stills' long string of chart successes.

In 1975, he celebrated his signing to Columbia with Stills, followed a year later by Illegal Stills. In the summer of 1976, he planned to tour with Neil Young; however, Young was hampered with throat problems, so Stills took to the road alone, although he and Young did team for the LP Long May You Run. In 1977, Stills reunited with Crosby and Nash for CSN, which sold over four million copies; the following summer, the trio mounted an acoustic tour, and Stills issued the solo record Thoroughfare Gap. CSN continued their reunion throughout the early years of the next decade, teaming in 1980 for Replay and in 1982 for Daylight Again, which featured the hits "Southern Cross" and "Wasted on the Way."
Allies
Following 1983's live CSN effort Allies, Stills again went solo for 1984's Right by You. In 1985, Crosby was sent to prison on drug possession charges, and Stills spent much of the late '80s out of the public eye. Following Crosby's release, in 1988 the reconstituted Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recorded American Dream, followed in 1990 by the CSN release Live It Up. In 1991, Stills issued the solo LP Stills Alone, while CSN's After the Storm appeared in 1994. Stills, Young, and Furay finally reunited as Buffalo Springfield for a pair of shows at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in the fall of 2010. It wasn't a complete reunion, since bassist Bruce Palmer had died in 2004 and drummer Dewey Martin passed in 2009, but the three singers used drummer Joe Vitale and bassist Rick Rosas to fill in. The same configuration played six concerts in the spring of 2011 but reportedly did no studio work.

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