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5324 - DAVID CROSBY - Voyage: Essential - Volume 1, Disc One (2006)

DAVID CROSBY
''VOYAGE: ESSENTIAL - VOLUME 1, DISC ONE''
NOVEMBER 6 2006
226:37

DISC ONE - ESSENTIAL - VOLUME 1
1/Eight Miles High feat. The Byrds
David Crosby / Roger McGuinn/3:34
2/Renaissance Fair feat. The Byrds
David Crosby / Roger McGuinn/1:51
3/Everybody's Been Burned feat. The Byrds
David Crosby/2:59
4/Wooden Ships feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby / Paul Kantner / Stephen Stills/5:27
5/Guinnevere feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby/4:38
6/Long Time Gone feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby/4:17
7/Déjà Vu feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/4:10
8/Almost Cut My Hair feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/4:21
9/Tamalpais High (At About 3)
David Crosby/3:31
10/Laughing
David Crosby/5:24
11/Music Is Love
David Crosby / Graham Nash / Neil Young/3:21
12/Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)
David Crosby/5:56
13/What Are Their Names?
David Crosby / Jerry Garcia / Phil Lesh / Michael Shrieve / Neil Young/4:11
14/I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here
David Crosby/1:21
15/Where Will I Be? feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/3:20
16/Page 43 feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/2:55
17/Critical Mass feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/1:20
18/Carry Me feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/3:33
19/Bittersweet feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/2:38
20/Naked in the Rain feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby / Graham Nash/2:26
21/Dancer feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/4:49

DISC TWO - ESSENTIAL - VOLUME 2
1/Shadow Captain feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby / Craig Doerge/4:31
2/In My Dreams feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby/5:11
3/Delta feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby/4:13
4/Compass feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/5:27
5/Tracks in the Dust
David Crosby/4:48
6/Arrows feat. Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby/3:51
7/Hero
Phil Collins / David Crosby/4:37
8/Yvette in English
David Crosby / Joni Mitchell/5:53
9/Rusty and Blue feat. CPR
David Crosby/7:30
10/Somehow She Knew feat. CPR
David Crosby / Craig Doerge/7:05
11/Breathless feat. CPR
David Crosby / Jan Crosby / Steve DiStanislao / Andrew Ford / Jeff Pevar / James Raymond/5:16
12/Map to Buried Treasure feat. CPR
David Crosby / Jan Crosby / Steve DiStanislao / Andrew Ford / Jeff Pevar / James Raymond/5:33
13/At the Edge feat. CPR
David Crosby / Jeff Pevar / James Raymond/4:21
14/Through Here Quite Often feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby / Dean Parks/4:00
15/My Country 'Tis of Thee
Samuel F. Smith / Traditional/1:57

DISC THREE - BURIED TREASURE (ALL PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
1/Long Time Gone feat. Crosby & Stills
David Crosby/4:32
2/Guinnevere
David Crosby/4:19
3/Almost Cut My Hair
David Crosby/5:22
4/Games
David Crosby/3:05
5/Déjà Vu feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/2:36
6/Triad
David Crosby/5:26
7/Cowboy Movie
David Crosby/10:57
8/Kids and Dogs
David Crosby/6:58
9/Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? feat. Paul Kantner, Jefferson Starship
David Crosby / Paul Kantner/3:06
10/The Lee Shore feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/4:24
11/Traction in the Rain feat. Crosby & Nash
David Crosby/3:36
12/King of the Mountain
David Crosby/2:44
13/Homeward Through the Haze feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/4:22
14/Samurai
David Crosby/1:40
15/Climber feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/5:18
16/Dream for Him feat. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
David Crosby/7:57

REVIEW
by Thom Jurek
Rhino has gone all out to release projects to coincide with the publication of David Crosby's autobiography, Since Then. Along with this triple-disc box set, the label is also reissuing Crosby's first solo recording -- an album that carries the word "masterpiece" around with it in the 21st century. While that double disc (the original disc with a bonus cut, and a DVD of the album in a superior mix) may carry some real excitement, it's a head-scratching exercise as to who, exactly, will be interested in this box. Rhino has packaged together three CDs in a deluxe foldout package with a 130-page book with a great liner essay by Steve Silberman, and song-by-song annotations by Crosby. Compiled and produced by Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash, Voyage contains two discs of songs from Crosby's various contributing incarnations as a member of the Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby & Nash, and CPR, and as a solo artist. The work here varies in quality, and merely tells a kind of story that has been told in many ways over the individual releases he appeared on. None of his backing vocal sessions with the Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, etc., are here. That may be as it should be, but the story would have been fuller and more complete than it is presented here. After all, it is reasonable to assume that anyone interested in the aforementioned acts to any real degree would have this material anyway. And anyone new to those recording artists or to Crosby himself would be ill-disposed to purchasing something this expensive.
So it all comes down to disc three, which is a 16-cut set of unreleased demos, alternates, and rehearsals of Crosby, either solo or with CSN, CSNY, or Crosby & Nash, with one exception -- an alternate mix of "Have You Seen the Stars Tonight" with the Jefferson Starship under the leadership of Paul Kantner. Here, there are benefits for fans of rough and "unfinished" recordings. The demos of "Long Time Gone" with Crosby and Stephen Stills is compelling, as are the alternate mix of "Guinnevere" and the demo of "Déjà Vu," the latter for its intense showcase of vocal harmony. However, the takes of "Almost Cut My Hair" (acoustic) and "Games" are throwaway ones. "Triad" neither adds nor subtracts from its recorded version; it is merely different. "Cowboy Movie" is a studio take here, over ten minutes in length, that rocks. "Kids and Dogs," the bonus cut on If I Could Only Remember My Name, is a mellow but worthy inclusion. The rest is all of interest, most of it being of very high quality, and the disc is thus recommended to fans in a big way -- it would have probably sold on its own. Yet the question remains as to how willing consumers are to go after such a set, even if it is being released in the holiday season.

BIOGRAPHY
by Jason Ankeny
The singular odyssey of David Crosby remains one of the more remarkable tales in the annals of music history. As a founding member of the pioneering American groups the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, he helped create and popularize the highly influential folk-rock sound, forging the richly harmonic, radiantly acoustic approach which defined the West Coast music scene for years to follow; he also sold millions of records and enjoyed a cultural impact equaled by few of his contemporaries. Yet despite his often overwhelming success, Crosby is recognized far less for his artistic achievements than for his larger-than-life off-stage exploits, specifically a long and fantastically excessive battle with drug abuse which seemingly kept him teetering on the brink of death for over a decade; that he not only survived but remained as colorful and newsworthy a character as before is a testament to his continued creativity and unpredictability.
Crosby was born in Los Angeles on August 14, 1941; the son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, he dropped out of drama school to pursue a career in music, touring the folk club circuit and recording as a member of the Les Baxter Balladeers. Under the auspices of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby cut his first solo session in late 1963; early the following year he formed the Jet Set with Jim McGuinn and Gene Clark, and with the additions of bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, the group was rechristened the Byrds. Although McGuinn chiefly pioneered the Byrds' trademark 12-string guitar sound, Crosby was the architect of their shimmering harmonies; his interests in jazz and Indian music also influenced their subsequent excursions into psychedelic. However, creative differences plagued the group throughout its career, and in 1967 Crosby -- reportedly rankled by his bandmates' refusal to release his menage a trois opus "Triad" -- left the Byrds in the wake of their appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
After producing Joni Mitchell's 1968 debut LP, Crosby cut a handful of solo recordings and began jamming with ex-Buffalo Springfield singer/guitarist Stephen Stills. In time the duo was joined by ex-Hollies member Graham Nash; with its exquisitely beautiful three-part harmonies, strong individual songwriting contributions, and graceful folk-rock sound, Crosby, Stills & Nash's 1969 debut LP proved a pop landmark, launching all three members to greater fame than they'd experienced in any of their previous projects. The addition of Stills' former Buffalo Springfield bandmate Neil Young expanded the group to a four-piece, and in August of 1969 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) made just their second live appearance to date at the Woodstock Festival; 1970's Déjà Vu arrived in stores with advance orders numbering over two million, and through the thought-provoking social and political messages of songs like "Woodstock" and "Ohio," they emerged as generational torchbearers of enormous musical and cultural influence.
Following a sellout CSNY tour, the group went on hiatus, and Crosby resumed work on his long-delayed solo debut, releasing If I Could Only Remember My Name in 1971; the following year, he and Nash issued the first of several duo efforts, and he also took part in a short-lived Byrds reunion. Despite continued creative differences, CSNY reformed for a 1974 tour; Crosby and Nash issued Wind on the Water a year later, and in 1977 Stills returned to the fold for the multi-platinum CSN. However, as Crosby's longstanding drug problem continued to worsen, he eventually fell out with both Stills and Nash, and a planned second solo album, Might as Well Have a Good Time, was rejected by Capitol in 1980. A series of arrests for cocaine possession and illegal weapons charges hampered him throughout the years to follow, even as he reunited with Stills and Nash in 1982 for the Top Ten hit Daylight Again. After completing the follow-up, 1983's Allies, the trio did not record together for another seven years.
In late 1985 Crosby was sentenced to prison after fleeing the drug rehabilitation clinic he'd entered in lieu of serving out a previous jail term; upon his release the following August, he'd finally conquered his demons, later chronicling the ugly details of his addiction in the fine autobiography Long Time Gone. In 1988 -- a full 18 years after the release of Déjà Vu -- Crosby reunited with Stills, Nash, and also Young for American Dream; his second solo effort, Oh Yes I Can, finally appeared the following year as well. After the 1990 release of CSN's Live It Up, Crosby continued to suffer personal misfortunes -- first he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident, and then in 1994 he lost his L.A. home as a result of massive earthquake damage. Months later, he returned to the headlines when it was announced he was diagnosed with hepatitis C and dying of liver failure, undergoing a successful organ transplant in 1995.
During the recovery period which followed, Crosby met James Raymond, the son he'd given up for adoption over three decades earlier and a professional musician as well; the two soon began writing songs together, and with guitarist Jeff Pevar they formed CPR, releasing a series of albums and touring regularly. In early 1997, Crosby, Stills & Nash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Hame; six years earlier, Crosby had first entered the Hall as a member of the Byrds. Young returned to the fold for 1999's Looking Forward, with the resulting millennial tour -- dubbed "CSNY2K" -- heralding the foursome's first joint road venture in a quarter century. Crosby was again the subject of tabloid headlines when in early 2000 it was revealed that he fathered the children of singer Melissa Etheridge and her life partner, Julie Cypher; that same year, he also published a second book, Stand and Be Counted, which assembled interviews with actors and musicians to explore the intersection of celebrity and social activism.
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