''Stephen Stills Live'' is a

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Stephen Stills Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. As both a solo act and member of two successful bands, Stills has com ...

, released on

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in 1975. Recorded on his first solo tour since 1971 and released after he had signed to

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. It peaked at number 42 on the US charts.

Background and recording

Taken from live recordings in 1974, it was issued by Atlantic Records after Stills had left the label for Columbia Records. It peaked at #42 on the

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, and is currently out of print. It was recorded during his first solo tour in three years after the break up of Manassas. Atlantic recorded both nights of Stills' concerts at Auditorium Theatre,

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, for a potential live album.

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mixed the album in November 1975 at Caribou Ranch. The first side of the album is Stills with an electric band, and the second side of the album is Stills on his own playing acoustically. "Four Days Gone" and "Special Care" are songs written by Stills and recorded by

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. He combined the Manassas song "Jet Set (Sigh)" with Joe Walsh's similarly sounding hit "

Rocky Mountain Way "Rocky Mountain Way" is a 1973 song by rock guitarist Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm, with writing credits given to all four band members: Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli, and Joe Vitale. The song was originally released on the album '' ...

" on the electric side. On the acoustic side he did a cover of Robert Johnson's "

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" segueing into Chuck Berry's " You Can't Catch Me". Also included is the first release of Stills' cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin' at Me" which had been recorded, but not released for the debut

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album.

Track listing

Personnel

Side One: Electric Side * Stephen Stills - vocals, guitar, piano * Donnie Dacus - guitar, backing vocals * Jerry Aiello - keyboards * Kenny Passarelli - bass, backing vocals * Russ Kunkel - drums * Joe Lala - percussion Side Two: Acoustic Side * Stephen Stills - vocals & acoustic guitar Technical personnel *

, Don Gehmen, & Michael John Bowen - Mixed and edited Oct 1975 at Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado *Recorded live by Bill Halverson *Photography - Stephen Sanders *Management, Cover Concept and Design - Michael John Bowen

Charts

Tour

The Stephen Stills 1974 Theater Tour was a concert tour by American musician

. It was his first solo tour since 1971, and the first since the demise of his band Manassas. He played well respected theaters across the Mid West and the East Coast of the United States. This was Stills' first solo tour in three years, a low-key affair that started with an electric set, then an acoustic set and finishing with another electric set. The setlist contained a range of material from his Buffalo Springfield days, his first two solo albums and the CSN/Y songs. It was during this tour that Stills announced the

CSNY 1974 ''CSNY 1974'' is the nineteenth album by Crosby, Stills, & Nash, their seventh in the CSNY quartet configuration, and their fifth live album, the third as a foursome. Issued on Rhino Records in 2014, it consists of concert material recorded in 1 ...

reunion tour. A live album ''Stephen Stills Live'' was recorded during the Chicago Auditorium dates and released in December 1975. On the 22 February date in Washington,

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 Furay ...

joined Stills on stage.

References

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