''Looking Forward'' is the third and final studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and their fifth, overall. It is the fourteenth and final album when conflated with releases by the trio of Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was released on

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in 1999 and peaked at number 26 on the ''Billboard'' 200, with total sales nearing 400,000.

Background and recording

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, ...

toured extensively through the 1990s, playing almost as many shows as they had in the previous decades combined. Since their previous album, no new solo albums were forthcoming from

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or Graham Nash, but David Crosby had discovered his adult son James Raymond, the two starting a band with

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yielding an album ''CPR'' in 1998. However, the band's relationship with Atlantic Records had soured, partly over a lack of push for '' After the Storm'', but mostly over the perception that the label now had very little interest in the group when they had made the company millions during the 1970s heyday. They terminated their contract with Atlantic in 1997, and began to record CSN tracks out of pocket without a record deal.''Four Way Street Reader'', op. cit., p. 328. Article by Gary Graff, originally in ''

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'' February 2000. Working with Stills to compile the Buffalo Springfield retrospective box set,

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became intrigued with these CSN sessions. Playing on some tracks in process, Young brought in three recordings he had earmarked for one of his own albums, "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke", and "Out of Control". The possibility of a new CSNY album attracted the attention of Young's label

, which duly released the album once completed. "Faith in Me" and "No Tears Left" were recorded in Ga Ga's Room in

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early on in the recording process. "Stand and Be Counted", "Seen Enough", "Dream for Him" and "Sanibel" were recorded at Conway Recording Studios in

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. "Heartland" was recorded at Ocean Studios in

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. The remainder of the album was recorded at Neil Young's facility, Redwood Digital, in

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Reception

''Looking Forward'' has sold approximately 370,000 copies in the

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/ref> It received mixed critical reviews. In 2000, CSNY launched the CSNY2K Tour in support of the album, the quartet's first tour since the summer stadium tour of 1974.

Track listing

Personnel

CSNY

* David Crosby – vocals, electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (7) *

– vocals,

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(1), acoustic guitar (1, 2, 5, 8, 10), electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11), bass guitar (1),

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(1), cowbell (1),

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s (1), maracas (1, 8), timbales (1),

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(8), percussion (11) * Graham Nash – vocals, acoustic guitar (10) *

– vocals, electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11), acoustic guitar (2, 9, 10), guitars (6),

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(6), tiple (9),

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(11)

Additional personnel

* Joe Vitale – additional Hammond B3 organ (1), batá drum (1),

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(1), drums (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) * Spooner Oldham – pump organ (2), keyboards (6, 9) * Mike Finnigan – Hammond B3 organ (3, 4, 8, 11) * James Raymond – acoustic piano (4, 7) * Craig Doerge – keyboards (12) * Ben Keith –

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(2),

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(2, 6, 9) * Snuffy Garrett – guitars (12) * Denny Sarokin – guitars (12) *

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– bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11) * Gerald Johnson – bass (4) * James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass (7) * Bob Glaub – bass (12) * Jim Keltner – drums (2, 6, 9) * Luis Conte –

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(1), batá drum (1),

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(1), percussion (7) * Alex Acuña – additional timbales (1) * Joe Lala – additional congas (1) *

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– percussion (4) * Vince Charles – percussion (12)

Production personnel

* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – producers (all tracks), mixing * Joe Vitale – producer (1, 8, 12), engineer (1, 8) * Ben Keith – producer (2, 6, 9) * Stanley Johnston – producer (12), engineer (12) * Stephen Stills – engineer (1, 8) * Ed Cherney – live drum engineer (1, 8) * Tim Mulligan – engineer (2, 6, 9, 10, 11), digital mastering * Bill Halverson – engineer (3, 5, 7), mixing * Robi Banerji – engineer (4) *

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– engineer (4) * Aaron Lepley – second live drum engineer (1, 8) * John Hausmann – second engineer (2, 6, 9, 10, 11) * Tony Flores – second engineer (3, 5, 7) * Barry Goldberg – second engineer (3, 5, 7) * Lior Goldenberg – second engineer (3, 5, 7) * Robert Breen – second engineer (4) * DeVal Day – second engineer (4) * Jim Mitchell – second engineer (12) * John Nowland – analog/HDCD engineer * Nathaniel Kunkel – additional engineer * Keith Woods – tape archivist *

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– art direction, design, inlay typography, management * Jenice Heo – art direction, design, typography * Henry Diltz – band photography *

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– front cover photography * R. Mac Holbert – outside folder band photo imaging * Frank Gironda – management * Gerry Tolman – management

Charts

References

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