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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Wednesday, September 10, 1969



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By Little Suzy Fun
Iuck Expert
Robert Cirisgau. late of1 Es-
quire and recently of the Sun-
day Times, noted a few weeks
ago that the prolonged disinte-
gration of the Byrds has been
something of a blessing in dis-
guise to rock. Right on. Robert.
But an ever bigger blessing,
even Inore heavily disguised, was
the too-unheralded death last
year of Buffalo Springield.
which is only now starting to be
recognized as one hell of a good
band. Wow
All of a sudden. they ve come
back, individually and with new
men. and they've put out three
new albums that a r e all, in
varying degrees, hot stuff.
Taking it from the top, there's
Crosby, Stills and Nash, on At-
lantic. If you e v e r liked the
Springfield, the Byrds and or
the Hollies you'll love this al-
bum, because that's what it is.
Crosby, Stills and Nash alter-
nate on the songwriting and ar-
ranging and you can tell. The
only thing that really holds the
album together is their incred-
ibly fine harmonizing -- better
than any singing I've heard in
rock since the Everly Brothers.
The Springfield's and Super
Session's, and Judy Collins' and
Joan Baez's, and etc.') Steve
Stills is the standout as was to
be expected(, I suppose. He's re-
spoisible for all the music ex-
cept. the rhythm and ctis and
for some of the best songs of the
year. Fo rexample, "Suite: Judy
Blue Eyes" his tribute to Judy
Collins. no less, is long, b u t
worth it. The structure is rem-
iniscent of "Bluebird," off Buf-
falo Springfield Again, only bet-
ter, if that's possible. And what
a finish, fans!
For another examlple "Marra-
kesh Express" F you know, "Fea-
turing Their Big HIT . .-) is
just about the worst song on the
album. In fact, Graham Nash
should stick to singing and for-
get about writing. Which is not
to say he's bad, but he's not the
match of Crosby. and certainly
not the mnatch Of Still.
In fact, the only person I can
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think of who is a match f o r
Stills just joined the group, that
person being Neil Young, as you
should already know. Young is
another ex - Buffalo, or ex-
Springfield or whatever . . . in
fact, he's the ex-lead guitarist
for them, which always comes
as a sur'prise to Steve Stills fans.
Anyway. he joined with CS&N
n o w CSN&Y1 apparently on
the condition that he still be on
his own, too. Which is to say
that he'll still be putting out al-
bums backed up by Crazy Horse
(who used to be members of the
Rockets) like the one he put out
this summer called Everybody
Knows This is Nowhere on Re-
prise, or Warner Bros.-Seven
Arts Reprise and if you're con-
fused, you're right.
B a c k to the point, this is
some fine album and is another
step toward enshrining Young
forever in my personal panthe-
on of unbelievably g o o d per-
formers that most people don't
think are so hot. Which isn't
to say that you'll think that.
Most people just haven't listen-
ed to him.
I've got to admit that this al-
bum is no better t h a n Neil's
first solo dive, namely Neil
Young on the same label, but
then again, what is.
Standouts for individual hon-
ors on this honey have got tobe
the title tune, "'Down by the
River (I shot my baby, no less
-an incredible s e t of lyrics
and the only nine-minute rock
song I've heard that's worth
listening to rather than read-
ing) and "Cowgirl in the Sand"
which is a bit long at 10:03, but
very well sustained and v e r y
nice.
Which reminds me that most
of the rest of the Springfield is
now a part of Poco, whose al-
bum Picking Up the Pieces is
also those three things. Which

is to say it's nice, but it doesn't
replace the Springfield. I mean,
I don't know how you feel about
this, but I can only stand so
many shouts of "Yeeeeee-
haaaaaa" on any one album.
There are high points, to be
sure. For example, "Picking Up
the Pieces" is to count'y roc k
what "Do You Believe in Magic"
is to good time rock, which is a
lot. And in fact, the album is
good, in fact quite g o o d - I
guess it's unfair to compare
them to Stills or Young.
Anyway, the guys from the
Springfield are Jim Messina and
Richie Furay who weren't any
small part of the group. To-
gether, they did a lot of good
writing and singing with the
Buffalo and they're keeping it
up, which is all right with me.
(For all you guys who've
read this far, I've got a little
parenthetic tip for you - Cros-
by, Stills, Nash and Young are
considering cutting an album
at Canterbury House. Think
about that.)

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