After the Storm (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)
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After The Storm is the thirteenth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their fifth studio album in the trio configuration, released on Atlantic Records in 1994. It would be their last release on Atlantic, excepting reissues, for almost two decades. It peaked at #98 on the Billboard 200, the lowest charting position of their eight studio albums. It is also their lowest selling album, with sales near 200,000.[3] It is currently out of print, although it is available for streaming on Spotify.
Background and recording
CSN toured extensively in the early 1990s, playing over 200 shows from 1990 through 1992, but took a break in 1993.[4] In the interim since the group's previous album in 1990, Stills and Crosby had both issued solo albums, Stills Alone in 1991 and Crosby's Thousand Roads in 1993, while Nash had compiled the 1991 box set. With the 25th anniversary of the release of their debut album approaching, the group reconvened to have an album in stores during 1994.[5]: 277
The album was recorded at studios in the Los Angeles area. "Only Waiting For You," "Camera," "It Won't Go Away," "In My Life," "Bad Boyz," "After The Storm," and "Panama" were recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank, California. "Unequal Love," "Till It Shines," and "These Empty Days" were recorded at Jackson Browne's Groove Masters in Santa Monica, California. "Find A Dream" and "Street To Lean On" were recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood.
Content and reception
Unlike the group's previous album, except for one cover of a Beatles song all the compositions are by the trio, with no outside writing contributions. The sessions were somewhat of a multi-generational affair, with Stills' children Jennifer and Christopher appearing as well as Ethan Johns, the son of the album's producer, Glyn Johns. Johns was the first producer to receive credit on a CSN album without the principals.
To promote After the Storm, the group played almost 100 concerts in 1994 including Woodstock '94, and played both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman.[5]: 287 However, according to Nash, even with the high visibility of the Woodstock anniversary festival and the television appearances, Atlantic did little in the way of promotion, which contributed to the album's low sales.[5]: 287 Like their previous album, it received middling to negative reviews from both critics and fans.[6] Also like their previous, none of these songs found a truly permanent place in the group's repertoire, with "Unequal Love" and "After the Storm" revisited a handful of times beyond the 1994 tours.[7]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead Vocals | Length |
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| 1. | "Only Waiting for You" | Stephen Stills | Stills | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Find a Dream" | Graham Nash | Nash | 3:51 |
| 3. | "Camera" | David Crosby, Stephen Stills | Crosby | 4:18 |
| 4. | "Unequal Love" | Graham Nash | Nash | 4:44 |
| 5. | "Till It Shines" | David Crosby | Crosby | 4:19 |
| 6. | "It Won't Go Away" | Stephen Stills | Stills with Crosby | 4:17 |
| 7. | "These Empty Days" | Graham Nash, David Crosby | Stills with Crosby & Nash | 2:30 |
| 8. | "In My Life" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 2:20 |
| 9. | "Street to Lean On" | David Crosby | Crosby | 3:36 |
| 10. | "Bad Boyz" | Stephen Stills | Stills | 4:16 |
| 11. | "After the Storm" | Graham Nash | Nash | 3:34 |
| 12. | "Panama" | Stephen Stills | Stills with Crosby & Nash | 4:15 |
Personnel
- David Crosby — vocals; acoustic guitar on "Find A Dream" and "After the Storm"; national guitar on "After the Storm"
- Stephen Stills — vocals; guitars all tracks except "Street to Lean On" and "After the Storm" bass on "Only Waiting for You" and "It Won't Go Away"; piano on "Only Waiting for You"
- Graham Nash — vocals; acoustic guitar on "Find A Dream" "Unequal Love," and "After the Storm"; harmonica on "Find A Dream" "Unequal Love," and "In My Life" piano on "Find A Dream"
Additional personnel
- Ethan Johns — drums on "Find A Dream," "Unequal Love," "Till It Shines," "These Empty Days," "In My Life," "Street to Lean On," "Bad Boyz," and "After the Storm"; percussion on "Find A Dream," "Unequal Love," "Till It Shines," "Bad Boyz," and "After the Storm"; guitars on "Find A Dream," "Till It Shines," "These Empty Days," "Street to Lean On," and "Bad Boyz"; mandocello on "In My Life"
- Michael Finnigan — organ on "Only Waiting for You," "Till It Shines," "It Won't Go Away," "Street to Lean On," and "Bad Boyz"; synthesizer, vocals on "Only Waiting for You"
- Chris Stills — high string acoustic guitar on "In My Life"; spanish guitar on "Panama"; piano on "These Empty Days"
- Michael Hedges — guitar on "Street to Lean On"
- Craig Doerge — keyboards on "After the Storm"
- Benmont Tench — Hammond B-3 on "Unequal Love"
- Joe Rotondi — keyboards on "Panama"
- James "Hutch" Hutchinson — bass on "Find A Dream," "Unequal Love," "Till It Shines," "These Empty Days," and "Street to Lean On"
- Alexis Sklarevski — bass on "Camera," "Bad Boyz," and "Panama"
- Daniel "Freebo" Friedberg — bass on "After the Storm"
- Rick Marotta — drums on "It Won't Go Away" and "Bad Boyz"
- Tris Imboden — drums on "Camera" and "Panama"
- Jody Cortez — drums on "Only Waiting for You"
- Rafael Padila — percussion on "Camera" and "Panama"
- Lenny Castro — percussion on "Only Waiting for You"
- Jen Stills — backing vocals on "After the Storm"
References
- ^ After the Storm at AllMusic
- ^ John Metzger. "Crosby, Stills, and Nash - After the Storm (Album Review)". Musicbox-online.com. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
- ^ "RIAA - Soundscan". Greasylakes. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ Setlist.fm website retrieved 23 August 2015
- ^ a b c Zimmer, Dave. Crosby, Stills & Nash The Biography. Da Capo Press 2000, ISBN 0-306-80974-5.
- ^ Rate Your Music website retrieved 23 August 2015
- ^ Setlist.fm website retrieved 23 August 2015