DEJA VU CSNY FULL

DEJA VU CSNY FULL

Not that he seems exactly ashamed about it, either: You can find the full collection proudly offered on his NYA (Neil Young Archives) website, and the one previously unreleased number that he does sing lead on, вЂњBirds,вЂќ has received its own lyric video with his Shakey Pictures production imprimatur. Neil Young.вЂќ And that hasnвЂ™t changed with this deluxe edition: Young reportedly pulled some of the bonus material that would have featured his voice and songs, and thus has even less of a presence among the demos and outtakes discs than he did on the original album.

(Last year, on the occasion of the albumвЂ™s actual 50th birthday last year, writer Steve Hochman had a very good piece in Variety demythologizing the idea of вЂњDГ©jГ VuвЂќ as a group-effort ideal.)Д«ut make no mistake: If this album were to be properly billed in the current parlance of the musical day, it would be вЂњCrosby, Stills & Nash feat. Probably anyone with the slightest CSNY consciousness now has a sense that there was a White Album aspect to the proceedings, with everyone in the foursome working up their songs individually outside the studio before bringing them in - or after after bringing them in, as Neil Young was known to take the tapes of the tracks he fronted with him after a session, to finish up on his own.

IRL, it was in diminishing supply by the time вЂњDГ©jГ VuвЂќ was being recorded in the latter stages of 1969, as Cameron CroweвЂ™s generous liner-notes essay reminds us. Harmony was certainly the key word for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young all aroundвЂ¦ on the record. Maybe this modest, raw demo wonвЂ™t mean that much even to most of their fansвЂ¦ but for a certain subset of us, itвЂ™s like an archeologist came up with recorded proof that gods not only walked the earth, but that they shared hippie-dippy moments of domestic tranquility before everyone got kicked out of the garden.

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