''CSN 2012'' is the eighteenth album by
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) were a folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash. When joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young as a fourth member ...
and their fourth live album. Released in 2012 on
Atlantic Records, it is the group's first release on their original label in 18 years.
The album derives from a recording done April 22 on the group's 2012 tour in both audio and video formats.
Background
After reuniting for a
Bridge School Benefit in 2010, the surviving members of
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was a rock band formed in Los Angeles by Canadian musicians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and American musicians Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song "For What It's Worth", rele ...
played seven shows in 2011. In 2012,
Stephen Stills,
Richie Furay
Paul Richard Furay (born May 9, 1944) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member (with Buffalo Springfield). He is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bru ...
, and
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fur ...
planned a full-blown Buffalo Springfield tour. After venues had been secured and tour personnel hired, Young dropped out to join up with
Crazy Horse for
two albums and a tour instead, leaving Stills "in a lurch".
Crosby & Nash
In addition to solo careers and within the larger aggregate of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the musical team of David Crosby and Graham Nash have performed and recorded regularly as a duo, mostly during the 1970s and the 2000s.
History
After th ...
canceled their plans for a duo tour to reunite with Stills for a Crosby, Stills and Nash tour in place of the Buffalo Springfield tour.
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Track listing
The DVD track list is in the same order as the compact disc version.
Disc one
Disc two
Personnel
* David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Crosby joined the Byrds in 1964. They got ...
vocals, rhythm guitar
* Stephen Stillsvocals, guitars, keyboards
* Graham Nash
Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...
vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
* Shane Fontayne
Michael Barakan (born 29 April 1954, in London, England), known as Shane Fontayne, is an English rock guitarist. Active since the 1970s, he was the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen during the 1992–1993 "Other Band" Tour, as Springsteen had d ...
guitars
* James Raymondkeyboards, vocals
* Todd Caldwellorgan
* Kevin McCormickbass guitar
* Steve DiStanislaodrums
References
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2012 live albums
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live albums
Atlantic Records live albums