Déjà Vu (album)

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Déjà Vu
Studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Released	March 11, 1970
Recorded	July - December, 1969 at Wally Heider's Studio C, San Francisco and Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock, folk rock
Length	36:24
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young chronology
Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) Déjà Vu (1970) Four Way Street (1971)

Déjà Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released in March of 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: "Teach Your Children," "Our House," and "Woodstock."

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing and credits 2.1 Side one 2.2 Side two 3 Personnel 3.1 Additional personnel 4 Production 5 References 5.1 Note 6 Charts

[edit] History

Déjà Vu was the first album Crosby, Stills & Nash released following the addition of Neil Young to the group, and was greatly anticipated after the popularity of the first CSN album, and Young's albums.

Stills estimates that the album took somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 hours of studio time to record; this figure may be exaggerated, even though the individual tracks display meticulous attention to detail.^[1] The album was done as individual sessions by each of the members when they turned up, apart from the quartet's version of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", contributing whatever was needed that could be agreed upon.^[2] Young does not appear on all of the tracks, and drummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves are credited on the cover, given junior-partner status with their names in slightly smaller typeface. Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel on "Teach Your Children" and John Sebastian plays mouth-harp on the title track.

In May 1970, two months after the album was released, the group recorded Neil Young's quickly penned response to the Kent State shootings, "Ohio." That single, backed with Stephen Stills' "Find the Cost of Freedom," was released in late June of the same year, making it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, notwithstanding its accusatory sentiment during the years of Nixon's "silent majority."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 147 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The same year, the TV network VH1 named Déjà Vu the 61st greatest album of all time. The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and #217 overall by Rate Your Music.

The album was reissued for compact disc after being remastered from the original tapes at Ocean View Digital by Joe Gastwirt on September 6, 1994.

[edit] Track listing and credits

[edit] Side one

1. "Carry On" (Stephen Stills) – 4:26
   • Stills - guitars, organ, bass, lead vocal; David Crosby - guitar, vocal; Graham Nash - guitar, vocal; Dallas Taylor - drums, percussion
2. "Teach Your Children" (Nash) – 2:53
   • Nash - guitar, lead vocal; Stills - guitar, bass, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar; Taylor - tambourine
3. "Almost Cut My Hair" (Crosby) – 4:31
   • Crosby - electric guitar, vocal; Stills - electric guitar; Nash - organ; Neil Young - electric guitar; Greg Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
4. "Helpless" (Young) – 3:33
   • Young - guitar, harmonica, lead vocal; Stills - electric guitar, piano, vocal; Nash - guitar, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
5. "Woodstock" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:54
   • Stills - electric guitar, organ, lead vocal; Nash - electric guitar, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Young - electric guitar; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums

[edit] Side two

1. "Déjà Vu" (Crosby) – 4:12
   • Crosby - guitar, lead vocal; Stills - electric guitar, vocal; Nash - guitar, piano, vocal; John Sebastian - harmonica; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
2. "Our House" (Nash) – 2:59
   • Nash - piano, harpsichord, lead vocal; Stills - bass, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Taylor - drums
3. "4 + 20" (Stills) – 2:04
   • Stills - guitar, vocal
4. "Country Girl" ("Whiskey Boot Hill," "Down, Down, Down," "Country Girl (I Think You're Pretty)") (Young) – 5:11
   • Young - guitar, organ, harmonica, lead vocal; Stills - guitar, vocal; Crosby - guitar, vocal; Nash - guitar, vocal; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
5. "Everybody I Love You" (Stills, Young) – 2:21
   • Stills - electric guitar, organ, vocal; Crosby - electric guitar, vocal; Nash - vocal; Young - electric guitar; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums

[edit] Personnel

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

• David Crosby : guitars, vocals
• Stephen Stills : guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Graham Nash: guitars, keyboards, vocals
• Neil Young: guitars, keyboards, harmonica, vocals (does not play on all tracks)

[edit] Additional personnel

• Greg Reeves: bass guitar
• Dallas Taylor: drums, percussion
• Jerry Garcia: pedal steel guitar
• John Sebastian: harmonica

[edit] Production

• Producers: David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young
• Engineer: Bill Halverson
• Art direction: Gary Burden
• Design: Gary Burden
• Photography: Henry Diltz, Tom Gundelfinger
• Direction: Elliot Roberts and associates
• Agent: David Geffen
• Digital remastering: Joe Gastwirt

[edit] References