Crosby, Stills and Nash

This eponymous album was the first by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released at the end of May 1969 by Atlantic Records. It was a very strong album for a debut, and (with an on/off relationship with Neil Young) they became legend. Their first public performance of some tracks off the album was in 1969 at Woodstock, a legend in itself. The album cover curiously shows the three from right to left, but hey, who cares.

I heard this album for the first time in 1969, in a Holiday Inn in Acapulco. I have memories of sitting lotus on a bedroom floor, one in a circle of people, passing the joints round and digging the new music. As one did. I also have memories of being thrown out of the hotel a little later but back then that was par for the course.

Good memories, and rehearing it today a good album. The harmonies still work, the lyrics still please and even without the weed it still takes me away.