Episode 50: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja vu

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This is EPISODE #50! An album review including song clips of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 classic, "Deja vu".
In this episode, Greg talks about how this album and the band's music became a large part of the counterculture and the soundtrack behind the nationwide protest over the United States' involvement in the War in Vietnam.
On March 11, 1970, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, otherwise known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their second album, Déjà vu. Recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco between July 1969 and January 1970, it was produced by Wally Heider and released on the Atlantic Records label. Dallas Taylor, an American session drummer, and Greg Reeves, a friend, and bass player, would also play on the album respectively. The album would include other “guest” musicians, including Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia, who played pedal steel guitar on Teach Your Children.

51 years later, in May of 2021, Rhino Entertainment Company remixed and re-released the album. Still, like my Beatles Revolver remix review, the reissued box set of Déjà vu includes 4 CDs and 1 Vinyl LP containing 38 bonus tracks, delivering nearly two-and-a-half hours of music that includes demos, and outtakes. Alternate takes – most of which (29 to be specific) are previously unreleased.