![]() This edition of Déjà Vu includes demos, outtakes and other alternate versions. “Helpless”, the album’s desolate, aching ballad, stands out, as do the underrated “Country Girl” suite and “Everybody I Love You”. ![]() Neil Young, however, makes his presence felt, whether it’s coaxing stronger performances from Stills or contributing his own rough-hewn guitar lines to the bucolic bliss. More than 50 years later, it’s one of the most famous albums in rock history with legendary songs, including Carry On and Teach Your Children, that still resonate today. Stills mostly serves the arrangements with tasteful guitar and harmonies. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Dj Vu was the most-anticipated new album in America in 1970. Stephen Stills’ influence is noticeably passive, contributing the album’s modest opener “Carry On” and the low-key acoustic “4 + 20”. Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” is given the definitive treatment, with scraping guitars and carefully constructed harmonies replacing her gentle piano figures. Graham Nash’s “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” express the idealistic and optimistic goals of the late ’60s, while David Crosby’s “Almost Cut My Hair” represents the paranoiac edge from which the drug scene dangled. The second album from the folk-rock era’s most successful supergroup (with Neil Young the added attraction), Déjà Vu reflects the sounds and sentiments of the times with a collective acumen, despite the group’s fragile ego balance.
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