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Released: May 29, 1969

Rating: 4.551 (average of 9 ratings)

Genre: folk rock

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

  1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stills) [7:25]
  2. Marrakesh Express (Nash) [2:39]
  3. Guinnevere (Crosby) [4:40]
  4. You Don’t Have to Cry (Stills) [2:45]
  5. Pre-Road Downs (Nash) [3:01]
  6. Wooden Ships (Crosby/Stills) [5:29]
  7. Lady of the Island (Nash) [2:39]
  8. Helplessly Hoping (Stills) [2:41]
  9. Long Time Gone (Crosby) [4:17]
  10. 49 Bye-Byes (Stills) [5:16]

Sales:

sales in U.S. only 4 million
sales in U.K. only - estimated --
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated 4 million

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 6
peak on U.K. album chart 25

Singles/ Hit Songs:

  • Marrakesh Express (7/19/69) #28 US, #17 UK, #28 AC
  • Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (10/4/69) #21 US

Notes: A 2006 expanded edition added bonus tracks “Do for Others,” “Song with No Words,” “Everybody’s Talkin’,” and an early version of “Teach Your Children.”

Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more.

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Review:
“The Crosby, Stills & Nash triumvirate shot to immediate superstardom with the release of its self-titled debut LP, a sparkling set immortalizing the group's amazingly close, high harmonies. While elements of the record haven't dated well — Nash's Eastern-influenced musings on the hit Marrakesh Express now seem more than a little silly, while the antiwar sentiments of Wooden Ships, though well-intentioned, are rather hokey – the harmonies are absolutely timeless, and the best material remains rock-solid. Stills' gorgeous opener, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, in particular, is an epic love song remarkable in its musical and emotional intricacy, Nash's Pre-Road Downs is buoyant folk-pop underpinned by light psychedelic textures, and Crosby's Long Time Gone remains a potent indictment of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. A definitive document of its era” (Ankeny).

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Related DMDB Link(s):

CSN/Y’s DMDB page Next album: Déjà Vu (1970)
David Crosby’s DMDB page Stephen Stills’ DMDB page Graham Nash’s DMDB page

Last updated April 13, 2008.